Epistle to the Son of the Wolf — §130

Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 130 of 268.

Source (Persian)

عند ذلک ارتفع النّداء من شطر الحجاز نادت و قالت طوبی لک يا عکّاء بما جعلک اللّه مطلع ندائه الاحلی و مشرق آياته الکبری و نعيما لک بما استقرّ عليک کرسیّ العدل و اشرق من افقک نيّر العناية و الالطاف * طوبی لمنصف انصف فی هذا الذّکر الاعظم و ويل لکلّ غافل مرتاب *

Shoghi Effendi Translation

Thereupon, a Voice was raised from the direction of Ḥijáz, calling aloud and saying: "Great is thy blessedness, O ‘Akká, in that God hath made thee the dayspring of His Most Sweet Voice, and the dawn of His most mighty signs. Happy art thou in that the Throne of Justice hath been established upon thee, and the Day-Star of God's loving-kindness and bounty hath shone forth above thy horizon. Well is it with every fair-minded person that hath judged fairly Him Who is the Most Great Remembrance, and woe betide him that hath erred and doubted."

Translation Notes

عند

ʿ-n-d → “Thereupon”

literal: obstinacy; opposition; enmity

ذلک

dh-l-k → “Thereupon”

literal: abasement; humiliation; lowliness; to be abased

ارتفع

r-f-ʿ → “was raised”

literal: to be raised, elevated, exalted, lifted up

النّداء

n-d-y → “Voice”

literal: call; voice; proclamation; forty; forty years

من

m-n → “from”

literal: from; out of; than (preposition and particle)

شطر

sh-ṭ-r → “direction”

literal: side, direction; half; to split

قالت

literal: speech; utterance; saying; word

طوبی

ṭ-w-b → ““Great is thy blessedness”

literal: happiness; blessedness; felicity

لک

l

literal: for; for you; for him

يا

y-ʾ → “O”

literal: O; or

بما

m-ʾ → “in that” Distinctive

literal: what; which; that which; relative pronoun; interrogative

جعلک

j-ʿ-l → “hath made thee”

literal: to make; to cause; to render; to appoint

اللّه

ʾ-l-h → “God”

literal: God; Allah; deity; Divinity; divine nature; godhood

مطلع

ṭ-l-ʿ → “dayspring”

literal: rising; appearance; countenance; manifestation

الاحلی

ḥ-l-w → “Most Sweet”

literal: sweetest; most sweet; most pleasant

مشرق

sh-r-q → “dawn” Distinctive

literal: radiance; splendor; dawn; illumination

آياته

ʾ-y-y → “signs”

literal: verse; sign; miracle; testimony; token

الکبری

k-b-r → “most mighty”

literal: great; grand; mighty; large; greatness; majesty; sovereignty; arrogance

نعيما

n-ʿ-m → “favor” Distinctive

literal: bliss; bounty; grace; comfort; felicity

استقرّ

q-r-r → “been established”

literal: to settle, to be established, to remain fixed

عليک

ʿ-l-y → “upon thee”

literal: highest; most high; supreme

کرسیّ

k-r-s → “seat”

literal: throne, seat; chair

العدل

ʿ-d-l → “Justice”

literal: justice; equity

افقک

ʾ-f-q → “thy horizon”

literal: horizon

نيّر

n-w-r → “Day-Star”

literal: fires; blazes

العناية

ʿ-n-y → “loving-kindness”

literal: to concern; to mean; to turn away from; bounty; loving-kindness; grace; divine care; attention; meaning; significance; inner sense

الالطاف

l-ṭ-f → “bounty”

literal: kindness; grace; gentleness; benevolence

لمنصف

n-ṣ-f → “every fair-minded person”

literal: justice; fairness; equity

فی

f-y

literal: in; in-it; in it

هذا

h-dh-ʾ → “this”

literal: this; that

الذّکر

dh-k-r → “Remembrance” Distinctive

literal: remembrance; mention; memory; invocation; reminders; commemorations

الاعظم

ʿ-ẓ-m → “the Most Great”

literal: greatest; supreme; mightiest

ويل

w-y-l → “woe betide him”

literal: woe; alas; grief

لکلّ

literal: for each; for every; to each

غافل

gh-f-l → “that hath erred” Distinctive

literal: heedlessness; negligence; inattention

مرتاب

r-y-b → “and doubted”

literal: doubt, suspicion, uncertainty; doubt; suspicion

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