Fire Tablet — §49
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 49 of 50.
Source (Arabic)
أَنْ يَا عَلِيُّ قَبْلَ أَكْبَرَ أَنِ اشْكُرِ اللهَ بِهَذَا اللَّوْحِ الَّذِي تَجِدُ مِنْهُ رَائِحَةَ مَظْلُوْمِيَّتِي وَمَا أَنَا فِيْهِ فِي سَبِيْلِ اللهِ مَعْبُوْدِ العَالَمِينَ *
Shoghi Effendi Translation
O ‘Alí-Akbar, thank thy Lord for this Tablet whence thou canst breathe the fragrance of My meekness, and know what hath beset Us in the path of God, the Adored of all the worlds.
Translation Notes
This form usually rendered as “most”, “greater”, “transcendent” (50 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §130: most mightygleaningsGWB §273: glorykitab-i-ahdAhd §11: Greaterkitab-i-iqanKIQ §259: mightiestprayers-and-meditationsP&M §421: measurelesstablet-of-ahmadAhmad §14: showeth pridetablet-of-carmelCarmel §2: entiretablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §11: Glorified be
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §73: thanks befire-tabletFire §49: thankgleaningsGWB §319: the thankfulprayers-and-meditationsP&M §688: give praisetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §15: those who are gratefultablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: give thanksthe-hidden-wordsHW §46: and thankfulepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §61: be thankful
SE usually renders this root as “god”, “divine”, “god’s”
SE rendered أَكْبَرَ (ʾakbar), اشْكُرِ (ishkur), اللهَ (al-lh), بِهَذَا (bihadhá), اللَّوْحِ (al-lawḥ), تَجِدُ (tajid) as “‘Alí-Akbar, thank, Lord, for this, Tablet, thou canst breathe”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §130: Him Who isgleaningsGWB §520: the thingstablet-of-ahmadAhmad §7: thesetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §57: and thiswill-and-testamentW&T §36: in these troubled timesepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §106: ThisgleaningsGWB §402: verily, istablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §12: Wherein
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §119: the TabletgleaningsGWB §278: a Tabletkitab-i-iqanKIQ §249: Tablet”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §774: have shone forthtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §3: the Bookswill-and-testamentW&T §7: documentepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §132: illuminedgleaningsGWB §591: luminous Tablet
SE expanded to “thou canst breathe”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §209: created thingsfire-tabletFire §49: thou canst breathegleaningsGWB §312: existence iskitab-i-iqanKIQ §196: independent existenceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §790: I would still find myselftablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §40: may findthe-hidden-wordsHW §21: has madewill-and-testamentW&T §6: extant
This form usually rendered as “meekness” (1 occurrences)
wronged 55% darkness 11% tyranny 9% cruelty 6% oppressors 4% oppressor 4% oppression 3% injustice 2% iniquity 2% have 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §181: wronged onesfire-tabletFire §2: the darknessgleaningsGWB §594: in darknesskitab-i-iqanKIQ §130: of those abjectprayers-and-meditationsP&M §805: hath transgressed against Theethe-hidden-wordsHW §144: gloomwill-and-testamentW&T §4: malevolenceepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: their cruelty
SE rendered سَبِيْلِ (sabíl), اللهِ (al-lh), مَعْبُوْدِ (maʿbúd), العَالَمِينَ (al-ʿálamín) as “God, Adored, all the worlds”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §157: thy waygleaningsGWB §163: path of Thy good-pleasurekitab-i-iqanKIQ §203: self and desireprayers-and-meditationsP&M §278: Thy path!”the-hidden-wordsHW §51: My pathwill-and-testamentW&T §3: shedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §18: systems of religious beliefgleaningsGWB §509: the state
SE expanded to “all the worlds”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §32: arts and sciencesfire-tabletFire §49: all the worldsgleaningsGWB §6: the Omniscientkitab-i-iqanKIQ §21: signprayers-and-meditationsP&M §844: Thou hast ever made knowntablet-of-ahmadAhmad §17: of all the worldstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §13: we have taught theethe-hidden-wordsHW §57: is My knowledge
