Fire Tablet — §7
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 7 of 50.
Source (Arabic)
قَدْ أَخَذَتِ البُرُوْدَةُ كُلَّ البَرِيَّةِ أَيْنَ حَرَارَةُ مَحَبَّتِكَ يَا نَارَ العَالَمِيْنَ *
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Coldness hath gripped all mankind: Where is the warmth of Thy love, O Fire of the worlds?
Translation Notes
This form usually rendered as “laid”, “hath”, “clung” (22 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §106: mengleaningsGWB §528: or curekitab-i-iqanKIQ §162: haveprayers-and-meditationsP&M §355: Thy peopleepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §94: the recoverygleaningsGWB §156: healedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §430: peopleepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §193: mankind
SE expanded to “of Thy love”
love 51% loved 16% beloved 16% well-beloved 5% best-beloved 4% loveth 2% dear 2% lover 2% thou 1% who 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §62: love offire-tabletFire §7: of Thy lovegleaningsGWB §415: His lovekitab-i-iqanKIQ §263: of His loveprayers-and-meditationsP&M §502: and my love for Theetablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: I longtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §40: the Beloved Onethe-hidden-wordsHW §20: My lover
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §118: the firegleaningsGWB §551: is a smoldering firekitab-i-iqanKIQ §182: fire—their endprayers-and-meditationsP&M §33: Thy firethe-hidden-wordsHW §143: the fire ofwill-and-testamentW&T §53: mischief-kindlingepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §132: firegleaningsGWB §37: flames
SE expanded to “of the worlds”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §132: worldsfire-tabletFire §13: ensignsgleaningsGWB §96: All-Informedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §51: knowledge and understandingprayers-and-meditationsP&M §502: of all Thy creaturestablet-of-ahmadAhmad §17: of all the worldstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §13: we have taught theethe-hidden-wordsHW §99: TO BE WISE
