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Epistle to the Son of the Wolf — §249

Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 249 of 268.

Source (Persian)

* نفسی که يک لطمه در دنيا نخورده و هميشه پنج نفس از اماء اللّه نزدش بوده او را مظلوم ميگوئی و حقّ که از اوّل عمر تا بحال دست اعدا بوده و ببدترين عذابهای عالم معذّب گشته باو نسبت داده ای انچه را که يهود در حقّ مسيح نگفته * اسمع نداء المظلوم و لا تکن من الاخسرين *

Shoghi Effendi Translation

Regardest thou as one wronged he who in this world was never dealt a single blow, and who was continually surrounded by five of the handmaidens of God? And imputest thou unto the True One, Who, from His earliest years until the present day, hath been in the hands of His enemies, and been tormented with the worst afflictions in the world, such charges as the Jews did not ascribe unto Christ? Hearken unto the voice of this Wronged One, and be not of them that are in utter loss.

Translation Notes

نفسی
n-f-s → “one wronged” Distinctive

literal: self; soul; psyche; person; essence

که
k-h → “which”

literal: that; who; who, that

يک
y-k → “one”

literal: one; a single

لطمه
l-ṭ-m → “blow”

literal: surging; dashing; tumultuous

در
d-r-r → “in”

literal: in; in, at; radiant

دنيا
d-n-w → “this world”

literal: this world; earthly life; temporal realm; lowest; base; mean; of little account; to know; to be acquainted with

نخورده
kh-w-r → “Daystar” Distinctive

literal: ill-wishing; malice; enmity

هميشه
h-m-sh → “continually”

literal: always; ever; forever; at all times; constantly

پنج
p-n-j → “fifty”

literal: fifty

از
ʾ-z → “of”

literal: from

اماء
ʾ-m-y → “handmaidens”

literal: handmaiden, maidservant, female slave

اللّه
ʾ-l-h → “God”

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

نزدش
n-z-d → “unto” Distinctive

literal: near; beside; with; in the presence of

بوده
b-w-d → “hath been” Distinctive

literal: to do; to make; to perform; to be; was

او
h-w-w

literal: he; it (third person pronoun); refuge; shelter; dwelling place; abode; lamentation, cry, woe; melody, song

را
r-ʾ-ʾ → “as”

literal: object marker; object-marker; to

ميگوئی
g-w-y → “I say” Distinctive

literal: speech; utterance; saying; word

حقّ
ḥ-q-q → “True One” Distinctive

literal: truth; right; that which is true or just

اوّل
ʾ-w-l → “first”

literal: first; beginning; at first; the first; former; possessors of; those who have; masters of

عمر
ʿ-m-r → “By My life” Distinctive

literal: life; age; duration; by the life of (oath)

تا
t-y-y → “so that”

literal: so that/until

بحال
ḥ-w-l → “now”

literal: states; conditions; circumstances; situations; affairs

دست
d-s-t → “in the hands”

literal: hand; control, power, authority

اعدا
ʿ-d-w → “enemies”

literal: hostility, aggression, enmity, transgression

ببدترين
b-d → “most hideously”

literal: to create; most wondrous; excel

عذابهای
ʿ-dh-b → “afflictions”

literal: torment, punishment, chastisement

عالم
ʿ-l-m → “in the world”

literal: world; universe; the worlds

گشته
g-sh-t → “been”

literal: become; became; to become

باو
ʾ-w-w → “him”

literal: sale; to sell; to swear allegiance; to pledge; to make covenant

نسبت
n-s-b → “charges”

literal: relation; relationship; connection; attribution; proportion

داده
d-ʾ-d → “of equity”

literal: below; lower than; beneath

ای
ʾ-y-y → “signs” Distinctive

literal: O; vocative particle; oh (vocative particle)

انچه
ʾ-n → “to”

literal: that; indeed; that, to

يهود
y-h-d → “Jews”

literal: Jews; Jew; Judea

مسيح
m-s-ḥ → “rubbeth”

literal: to wipe, anoint, touch lightly; to pass over

اسمع
s-m-ʿ → “Hearken”

literal: heard, hearkened to, acceptable, worthy of attention

نداء
n-d-y → “voice”

literal: call; voice; cry; summons

المظلوم
ẓ-l-m → “this Wronged One”

literal: wrongedness, oppression, meekness; state of being wronged or oppressed

لا
l-ʾ → “not”

literal: no; not; negation particle

تکن
k-w-n → “be”

literal: to do; to make; to perform; to be; was

من
m-n → “of them that are in utter”

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

الاخسرين
kh-s-r → “loss”

literal: loss; ruin; to suffer loss

Source: Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

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