Revealed during His exiles to Adrianople and Akka, the Messages summon their recipients to recognize the Day of God and to arise to the challenges it imposes on them as the trustees of civil authority among the peoples of the world. The volume includes the magnificent Suriy-i-Haykal (Surih of the Temple), containing messages to individual potentates, and the Suriy-i-Muluk (Surih to the Kings), addressed collectively, in the words of Shoghi Effendi, "to the entire company of the monarchs of East and West."