Fire Tablet — §21
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 21 of 50.
Source (Arabic)
قَدْ تَغَيِّرَ أَكْثَرُ الوَرَى مِنْ سُكْرِ الهَوَى أَيْنَ مَطَالِعُ التَّقْوَى يَا مَقْصُودَ العَالَمِينَ *
Shoghi Effendi Translation
The drunkenness of passion hath perverted most of mankind: Where are the daysprings of purity, O Desire of the worlds?
Translation Notes
This form usually rendered as “perverted”, “altered”, “hath” (4 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §242: unseemly and unholy deedsfire-tabletFire §27: puritygleaningsGWB §346: different fromkitab-i-iqanKIQ §20: theyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §158: to anyonethe-hidden-wordsHW §101: strangerwill-and-testamentW&T §38: is notepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §171: different
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §165: mengleaningsGWB §423: all thingsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §815: all menthe-hidden-wordsHW §160: beneathepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §122: mankindgleaningsGWB §48: the whole worldepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §198: of MankindgleaningsGWB §278: of all being
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §129: state of strange stuporfire-tabletFire §19: agonies of deathgleaningsGWB §77: are drunkenprayers-and-meditationsP&M §535: withepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §102: inebriatedfire-tabletFire §21: drunkennessgleaningsGWB §528: so drunkprayers-and-meditationsP&M §718: burneth continually
This form usually rendered as “corrupt”, “desires”, “desire” (71 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: firmamentfire-tabletFire §21: passiongleaningsGWB §124: Hiskitab-i-iqanKIQ §193: Inmost Essenceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §211: of selfthe-hidden-wordsHW §39: thou desirestwill-and-testamentW&T §36: my spiritepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §85: promptings of thine own passions
daysprings 43% dawning-places 13% exponents 13% revealers 11% day-springs 7% manifestations 4% embodiments 2% wellsprings 2% instigators 2% incarnations 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §143: dayspringsfire-tabletFire §16: embodimentsgleaningsGWB §219: inscrutablekitab-i-iqanKIQ §47: livesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §257: wafting from the Dayspringtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §17: May knowthe-hidden-wordsHW §25: before the countenancewill-and-testamentW&T §5: the angelic company
SE expanded to “of the worlds”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §11: the realm of mightfire-tabletFire §49: all the worldsgleaningsGWB §151: a leader among the learnedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §15: Leaders ofprayers-and-meditationsP&M §442: world and all thattablet-of-ahmadAhmad §17: of all the worldstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §13: we have taught theethe-hidden-wordsHW §144: peoples
