Epistle to the Son of the Wolf — §237
Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 237 of 268.
Source (Persian)
يا هادی حميّه جاهليّه قبل عباد بيچاره را از صراط مستقيم منع نمود * در حزب شيعه تفکّر نما هزار و دويست سنه يا قائم گفتند و بالآخره جميع بر شهادتش فتوی دادند و شهيدش نمودند مع انکه بحقّ جلّ جلاله و حضرت خاتم و اوصياء قائل و مقرّ و معترف بودند * حال قدری فکر لازم که شايد معلوم شود سببی که ما بين حقّ و خلق حائل شد چه بوده و علّت اعتراض و انکار چه عملی شده *
Shoghi Effendi Translation
O Hádí! The blind fanaticism of former times hath withheld the hapless creatures from the Straight Path. Meditate on the Shí‘ah sect. For twelve hundred years they have cried "O Qá’im!", until in the end all pronounced the sentence of His death, and caused Him to suffer martyrdom, notwithstanding their belief in, and their acceptance and acknowledgment of, the True One - exalted be His glory - and of the Seal of the Prophets, and of the Chosen Ones. It is now necessary to reflect a while, that haply that which hath come between the True One and His creatures may be discovered, and the deeds which have been the cause of protest and denial be made known.
Translation Notes
تفکّر
literal: thoughts; ideas; fancies; opinions; to think; to reflect; to contemplate
بالآخره
literal: the hereafter, the next life, the world to come; last, latter; the next life, the hereafter; delay; postponement
