Fire Tablet — §3
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 3 of 50.
Source (Arabic)
قَدْ تَبَلْبَلَ أَجْسَادُ الأَصْفِيَاءِ عَلَى أَرْضِ البُعْدِ أَيْنَ بَحْرُ قُرْبِكَ يَا جَذَّابَ العَالَمِيْنَ*
Shoghi Effendi Translation
The bodies of Thy chosen ones lie quivering on distant sands: Where is the ocean of Thy presence, O Enchanter of the worlds?
Translation Notes
This form usually rendered as “quivering”, “confusion”, “laden” (3 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: the bodygleaningsGWB §246: My bodykitab-i-iqanKIQ §230: carrionprayers-and-meditationsP&M §594: dead corpsetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §56: her bodythe-hidden-wordsHW §120: framewill-and-testamentW&T §13: its mortal frameepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §100: My limbs
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §62: chosenfire-tabletFire §27: andgleaningsGWB §435: crystalkitab-i-iqanKIQ §273: onesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §169: all Thy chosen onesthe-hidden-wordsHW §100: crystal purewill-and-testamentW&T §45: Thy Holy Onesepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §158: His chosen ones
SE rendered أَجْسَادُ (ʾajsád), الأَصْفِيَاءِ (aṣ-ṣfíáʾ), أَرْضِ (ʾarḍ), البُعْدِ (al-buʿd), بَحْرُ (baḥr), قُرْبِكَ (qurbik) as “bodies, chosen, on, sands, Where, ocean”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §33: Following Ourfire-tabletFire §3: sandsgleaningsGWB §502: to a Revelation after Himkitab-i-ahdAhd §3: Henceforwardkitab-i-iqanKIQ §17: sinceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §195: remoteness fromwill-and-testamentW&T §19: successorepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §123: in the end
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §185: from the oceanfire-tabletFire §25: a seagleaningsGWB §51: the rushing waterskitab-i-iqanKIQ §31: billowsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §263: the healing waterstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §6: the crimson seaswill-and-testamentW&T §2: Twinepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §121: sea
This form usually rendered as “nearness”, “presence”, “whose” (36 occurrences)
SE rendered بَحْرُ (baḥr), قُرْبِكَ (qurbik), جَذَّابَ (jadhdháb), العَالَمِيْنَ* (al-ʿálamína*) as “Where, ocean, Thy, Enchanter”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §120: rapturefire-tabletFire §3: ThygleaningsGWB §618: kindlekitab-i-iqanKIQ §163: uplifting their transportsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §796: and attractedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §161: been enrapturedgleaningsGWB §603: the lodestonekitab-i-iqanKIQ §216: ecstasy
This form usually rendered as “worlds”, “all”, “world” (214 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §175: familiarfire-tabletFire §13: ensignsgleaningsGWB §710: manifestkitab-i-iqanKIQ §207: distinguishprayers-and-meditationsP&M §141: of the world’s wisdomtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §17: of all the worldstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §13: we have taught theethe-hidden-wordsHW §14: seekest thou enlightenment
