Reference to the events surrounding the martyrdom of Ḥájí Muḥammad-Riḍáy-i-Iṣfahání in ‘Ishqábád in 1889. The Bahá’í community interceded with the government on behalf of the murderers, and the Czar agreed to clemency for them. See The Epistle to the Son of the Wolf (www.bahai.org/r/684455299).
Reference to Czar Alexander III. The original contains a play on the words siláḥ (armaments) and iṣláḥ (redress the wrongs).