Fire Tablet — §41
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 41 of 50.
Source (Arabic)
مَا أَحْلَى إِشْرَاقَكَ مَنْ أُفُقِ المِيْثَاقِ بَيْنَ أَهْلِ النِّفَاقِ وَاشْتِيَاقَكَ بِاللهِ يَا عِشْقَ العَالَمِينَ *
Shoghi Effendi Translation
How sweet was Thy dawning on the horizon of the Covenant among the stirrers of sedition, and Thy yearning after God, O Love of the worlds.
Translation Notes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §130: Most Sweetfire-tabletFire §41: sweetgleaningsGWB §127: most excellentprayers-and-meditationsP&M §292: the sweetnessthe-hidden-wordsHW §72: SweetergleaningsGWB §591: in the sweetest of languagesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §531: of the sweetnessgleaningsGWB §622: beauty
dayspring 24% hath 12% shineth 12% shining 10% shone 9% dawning-place 8% radiance 7% east 7% daysprings 6% shine 5%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §6: the dayspringsfire-tabletFire §18: the emblemsgleaningsGWB §401: is diffusedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §31: riseprayers-and-meditationsP&M §624: didst shedtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §41: even as the lightthe-hidden-wordsHW §61: radiantepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §186: dayspring of
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §40: of the worldfire-tabletFire §26: the heavengleaningsGWB §691: summit of transcendent gloryprayers-and-meditationsP&M §445: the Dayspringthe-hidden-wordsHW §15: the realmepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: Supreme HorizongleaningsGWB §198: above the dayspringprayers-and-meditationsP&M §137: the world
SE rendered إِشْرَاقَكَ (ʾishráqak), أُفُقِ (ʾufuq), المِيْثَاقِ (al-mítháq), أَهْلِ (ʾahl), النِّفَاقِ (an-nifáq) as “Thy dawning, the horizon, of, among, the stirrers of sedition”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §214: Testamentfire-tabletFire §41: ofgleaningsGWB §687: pledgekitab-i-iqanKIQ §37: Urvatu’l-Vuthqáprayers-and-meditationsP&M §442: to Thy Covenantwill-and-testamentW&T §10: the Covenantepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: Covenant and Thy TestamentgleaningsGWB §611: thy pledge
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §87: they that dwellgleaningsGWB §178: yekitab-i-ahdAhd §5: beholders ofkitab-i-iqanKIQ §212: them that haveprayers-and-meditationsP&M §224: people ofthe-hidden-wordsHW §109: DWELLERSwill-and-testamentW&T §34: devotedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §229: the dwellers
SE expanded to “the stirrers of sedition”
sedition 29% malice 24% maliciously 10% discord 10% dissensions 10% malicious 5% stirrers 5% dissension 5% hearts 5%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §94: wouldst expendfire-tabletFire §34: of seditiongleaningsGWB §666: All-Bountifulkitab-i-iqanKIQ §278: seditionprayers-and-meditationsP&M §818: have giventhe-hidden-wordsHW §58: thou mayest drawwill-and-testamentW&T §36: their craftepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §136: hath offered himself
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §206: GodheadgleaningsGWB §493: divinely revealedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §89: Beingsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §845: of Thy Divinitythe-hidden-wordsHW §147: celestialwill-and-testamentW&T §53: the Holy Writepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §168: DivinitygleaningsGWB §10: His
love 94% passionate 6%
SE expanded to “of the worlds”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §11: of the worldfire-tabletFire §13: ensignsgleaningsGWB §235: ensignkitab-i-iqanKIQ §145: that ye may knowprayers-and-meditationsP&M §463: art aware—eachtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §17: of all the worldstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §13: we have taught theethe-hidden-wordsHW §14: seekest thou enlightenment
