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Epistle to the Son of the Wolf — §83

Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 83 of 268.

Source (Persian)

يا ملک قد سقطت انجم سماء العلم الّذين يستدلّون بما عندهم لاثبات امری و يذکرون اللّه باسمی فلمّا جئتهم بمجدی اعرضوا عَنَّی أَلَا انّهم من السّاقطين * هذا ما اخبرکم به الرّوح اذ اتی بالحقّ و اعترض عليه علماء اليهود الی ان ارتکبوا ما ناح به روح القدس و ذرفت دموع المقرّبين *

Shoghi Effendi Translation

"O King! The stars of the heaven of knowledge have fallen, they who seek to establish the truth of My Cause through the things they possess, and who make mention of God in My Name. And yet, when I came unto them in My glory, they turned aside. They, indeed, are of the fallen. This is, truly, that which the Spirit of God (Jesus Christ) hath announced, when He came with truth unto you, He with Whom the Jewish doctors disputed, till at last they perpetrated what hath made the Holy Spirit to lament, and the tears of them that have near access to God to flow.

Translation Notes

يا
y-ʾ → “O”

literal: O; or

ملک
m-l-k → “King”

literal: kingdom; dominion; realm; sovereignty; possessions; property; ownership

قد
q-d → “We have been”

literal: verily; indeed; certainly (particle of emphasis)

سقطت
s-q-ṭ → “fallen”

literal: dropping; omitting; falsifying; interpolating

انجم
n-j-m → “stars”

literal: star

سماء
s-m-w → “heaven”

literal: heaven; sky

العلم
ʿ-l-m → “knowledge”

literal: world; universe; the worlds

الّذين
l-dh-y → “which” Distinctive

literal: those who; the ones who (relative pronoun)

يستدلّون
d-l-l → “proof” Distinctive

literal: to argue; to demonstrate; proof

بما
m-ʾ → “that” Distinctive

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

عندهم
ʿ-n-d → “possess”

literal: vessel; container; circumstance; adroitness

لاثبات
th-b-t

literal: firm; steadfast; established; fixed

امری
ʾ-m-r → “Cause”

literal: command; cause; matter; affair

يذکرون
dh-k-r → “make mention”

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

اللّه
ʾ-l-h → “God”

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

فلمّا
l-m-m → “No sooner”

literal: when; as soon as; thereupon

جئتهم
j-y-ʾ → “come” Distinctive

literal: to come; to arrive; to happen

بمجدی
m-j-d → “My glory”

literal: glory; majesty; magnificence

اعرضوا
ʿ-r-ḍ → “turned aside”

literal: to turn away; to avert; to abstain; heedless

عَنَّی
ʿ-n

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

أَلَا
ʾ-kh-r

literal: end; hereafter; other

انّهم
ʾ-n-n → “He”

literal: them (pronoun + object marker)

من
m-n → “of”

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

هذا
h-dh-ʾ → “This is, truly”

literal: this; that

اخبرکم
kh-b-r → “hath announced”

literal: all-knowing; aware; well-informed; omniscient

به
b-h

literal: by it; by him; with it

الرّوح
r-w-ḥ → “the Spirit of God”

literal: to go; to depart; to rest; spirit; soul

اذ
ʾ-dh-dh

literal: when; since

اتی
ʾ-t-y → “come”

literal: to come; to arrive; to bring; to go; coming; arrival; the one coming; to give; Revelation; came; gave; brought

بالحقّ
ḥ-q-q → “with truth”

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

عليه
ʿ-l-y → “upon”

literal: highest; most high; supreme

اليهود
y-h-d

literal: Jews; the Jews

الی
ʾ-l-y → “towards”

literal: except; but; if not; lo; now; at this time; save; only; unless

ان
ʾ-n

literal: that; those; he; she; it

ارتکبوا
r-k-b → “perpetrated”

literal: to ride; to commit; to undertake

ناح
n-w-ḥ → “lament”

literal: to wail; to lament; lamentation

القدس
q-d-s

literal: holy, sacred, sanctified

ذرفت
dh-r-f → “to flow”

literal: to shed, to pour forth (tears, etc.)

دموع
d-m-ʿ → “tears”

literal: tears

المقرّبين
q-r-b → “near access”

literal: place of sacrifice; altar

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

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