Fire Tablet — §24
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 24 of 50.
Source (Arabic)
قَدْ غَشَّتِ الظُّنُونُ وَالأَوْهَامُ أَكْثَرَ الأَنَامِ أَيْنَ مَطَالِعُ إِيْقَانِكَ يَا سَكِيْنَةَ العَالَمِينَ *
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Most of the people are enwrapped in fancy and idle imaginings: Where are the exponents of Thy certitude, O Assurance of the worlds?
Translation Notes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §240: idle imaginingsfire-tabletFire §24: fancygleaningsGWB §36: of idle fancykitab-i-iqanKIQ §148: it as certainprayers-and-meditationsP&M §315: mine own fancytablet-of-ahmadAhmad §13: superstitionsthe-hidden-wordsHW §63: thy fanciesepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §133: deemed
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §175: superstitiousfire-tabletFire §24: idle imaginingsgleaningsGWB §668: vain and emptykitab-i-iqanKIQ §85: idle and faulty conceptionprayers-and-meditationsP&M §796: and vain imaginationstablet-of-ahmadAhmad §12: of delusionthe-hidden-wordsHW §83: doubtwill-and-testamentW&T §34: suspicion
SE rendered وَالأَوْهَامُ (wálʾawhám), أَكْثَرَ (ʾakthar), الأَنَامِ (an-nám), مَطَالِعُ (maṭáliʿ), إِيْقَانِكَ (ʾíqánik) as “idle imaginings, the people, exponents, Thy certitude”
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 §189: readfire-tabletFire §24: exponentsgleaningsGWB §40: countenance of Moseskitab-i-iqanKIQ §186: awareprayers-and-meditationsP&M §843: and the splendorstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §37: may understand and hearkenthe-hidden-wordsHW §25: before the countenancewill-and-testamentW&T §5: the angelic company
This form usually rendered as “assurance”, “pledge” (2 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §8: the denizensfire-tabletFire §24: AssurancegleaningsGWB §543: enter intokitab-i-iqanKIQ §174: occupyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §795: I am stilltablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §20: them that abidethe-hidden-wordsHW §69: and dwellepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §122: serenity
SE expanded to “of the worlds”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §150: ensigns offire-tabletFire §49: all the worldsgleaningsGWB §312: world of beingkitab-i-iqanKIQ §65: universeprayers-and-meditationsP&M §308: to Thy willtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §17: of all the worldstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §13: we have taught theethe-hidden-wordsHW §144: peoples
