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Gleanings — §105

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 105 of 729.

Source (Arabic)

و اگر شنيده شود از مظاهر جامعه: "إنّي أنا اللّه" حق است و ريبی در آن نيست چنانچه بکرّات مبرهن شد که بظهور و صفات و اسمای ايشان ظهور اللّه و اسم اللّه و صفة اللّه در ارض ظاهر اينست که ميفرمايد: ﴿وَ مَا رَمَيْتَ إذْ رَمَيْتَ وَلَکِنَّ اللّهَ رَمَی﴾ و همچنين: ﴿إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُبَايِعُونَکَ إِنَّمَا يُبَايِعُونَ اللّهَ﴾ و اگر نغمه: ﴿إِنَّي رَسُولُ اللّهِ﴾ برآرند اين نيز صحيح است و شکّی در آن نه چنانچه ميفرمايد: ﴿مَا کَانَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَبَا أَحَدٍ مِنْ رِجَالِکُمْ وَلَکِنْ رَسُولَ اللّهِ﴾ و در اين مقام همه مُرسلند از نزد آن سلطان حقيقی و کينونت ازلی و اگر جميع ندای: "أنا خاتم النّبيّين" بر آرند آنهم حق است و شبهه را راهی نه و سبيلی نه زيرا که جميع حکم يک ذات و يک نفس و يک روح و يک جسد و يک امر دارند و همه مظهر بدئيّت و ختميّت و اوّليت و آخريّت و ظاهريّت و باطنيّت آن روح الارواح حقيقی و ساذج السّواذج ازليند و همچنين اگر بفرمايند: "نحن عباد اللّه" اين نيز ثابت و ظاهر است چنانچه بظاهر در منتهی رتبه عبوديّت ظاهر شده‌اند احدی را يارای آن نه که به آن نحو از عبوديّت در امکان ظاهر شود اينست که از آن جواهر وجود در مقام استغراق در بحار قدس صمدی و ارتقاء بمعارج معانی سلطان حقيقی اذکار ربوبيّه و الوهيّه ظاهر شد

Shoghi Effendi Translation

Were any of the all-embracing Manifestations of God to declare: “I am God,” He, verily, speaketh the truth, and no doubt attacheth thereto. For it hath been repeatedly demonstrated that through their Revelation, their attributes and names, the Revelation of God, His names and His attributes, are made manifest in the world. Thus, He hath revealed: “Those shafts were God’s, not Thine.” And also He saith: “In truth, they who plighted fealty unto Thee, really plighted that fealty unto God.” And were any of them to voice the utterance, “I am the Messenger of God,” He, also, speaketh the truth, the indubitable truth. Even as He saith: “Muḥammad is not the father of any man among you, but He is the Messenger of God.” Viewed in this light, they are all but Messengers of that ideal King, that unchangeable Essence. And were they all to proclaim, “I am the Seal of the Prophets,” they, verily, utter but the truth, beyond the faintest shadow of doubt. For they are all but one person, one soul, one spirit, one being, one revelation. They are all the manifestation of the “Beginning” and the “End,” the “First” and the “Last,” the “Seen” and the “Hidden” — all of which pertain to Him Who is the Innermost Spirit of Spirits and Eternal Essence of Essences. And were they to say, “We are the Servants of God,” this also is a manifest and indisputable fact. For they have been made manifest in the uttermost state of servitude, a servitude the like of which no man can possibly attain. Thus in moments in which these Essences of Being were deep immersed beneath the oceans of ancient and everlasting holiness, or when they soared to the loftiest summits of Divine mysteries, they claimed their utterances to be the Voice of Divinity, the Call of God Himself.

Translation Notes

همچنين

literal: likewise; likewise, similarly; similarly, likewise

This form usually rendered as “likewise”, “like”, “similarly” (65 occurrences)

SE expanded to “And also He saith: “In truth”

إِنَّمَا
ʾinnamá n-m-ʾ

literal: do; make; show

SE rendered الَّذِينَ (adh-dhín), يُبَايِعُونَکَ (yubáyiʿúnak), إِنَّمَا (ʾinnamá), يُبَايِعُونَ (yubáyiʿún), اللّهَ﴾ (al-lha﴾) as “they, plighted, God.””

suffer 18% strive 18% thou 12% consider 12% endeavour 12% do 6% set 6% hath 6% gird 6% have 6%
برآرند
brárnd b-r-ʾ-y → “voice”

literal: raise-up

1 occurrence in corpus

نزد
nzd zdn

literal: near; strike; near, with

SE rendered مقام (mqám), همه (hmh), مُرسلند (murslnd), از (iz), نزد (nzd), سلطان (slṭán), حقيقی (ḥqíqí), کينونت (kínúnt), ازلی (izlí) as “light, all, Messengers, King, unchangeable”

eyes 20% unto 15% estimation 10% visited 10% possession 10% sight 10% when 10% whenever 5% opinion 5% possesses 5%
سبيلی
sbílí s-b-l

literal: path; path/way

SE rendered حق (ḥq), شبهه (shbhh), راهی (ráhí), نه (nh), سبيلی (sbílí), نه (nh), زيرا (zírá), جميع (jmíʿ), حکم (ḥkm), يک (yk), ذات (dhát) as “truth, shadow, doubt, all, one, person”

path 67% sake 22% approach 11%
حکم
ḥkm ḥ-k-m

literal: wisdom; judgment

SE rendered جميع (jmíʿ), حکم (ḥkm), يک (yk), ذات (dhát), يک (yk), نفس (nfs), يک (yk), روح (rúḥ), يک (yk) as “all, being, person, soul, spirit”

امر
imr ʾ-m-r

literal: command; matter; cause

SE rendered يک (yk), نفس (nfs), يک (yk), روح (rúḥ), يک (yk), جسد (jsd), يک (yk), امر (imr), دارند (dárnd), همه (hmh), مظهر (mẓhr), بدئيّت (bdʾíʾt), ختميّت (khtmímt) as “revelation, soul, spirit, one, all, manifestation, “Beginning”, “End,””

دارند
dárnd dáshtn

literal: have; to have; had

SE rendered يک (yk), روح (rúḥ), يک (yk), جسد (jsd), يک (yk), امر (imr), دارند (dárnd), همه (hmh), مظهر (mẓhr), بدئيّت (bdʾíʾt), ختميّت (khtmímt) as “revelation, spirit, one, all, manifestation, “Beginning”, “End,””

withhold 33% therein 33% cleave 33%
شده‌اند
shdh‌ánd shdn

literal: become; to become

SE rendered منتهی (mnthí), رتبه (rtbh), عبوديّت (ʿbúdídt), ظاهر (ẓáhr), شده‌اند (shdh‌ánd), احدی (iḥdí), يارای (yáráy) as “uttermost, state, servitude, manifest, man, can”

have 30% had 20% become 10% created 10% has 10% proceeded 10% hath 10%
استغراق
istghráq gh-r-q → “in”

literal: immersion

SE rendered جواهر (júáhr), وجود (wjúd), مقام (mqám), استغراق (istghráq), بحار (bḥár), قدس (qds), صمدی (ṣmdí), ارتقاء (irtqáʾ) as “Essences, Being, moments, in, oceans, everlasting, ancient, soared”

deep 33% deeply 33% immersion 33%

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