Gleanings — §131

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 131 of 729.

Source (Arabic)

ملاحظه شد که این همج رعاع گمان نموده‌اند که بقتل و غارت و نفی احبّای الهی از بلاد توانند سراج قدرت ربّانی را بیفسرند و شمس صمدانی را از نور بازدار

Shoghi Effendi Translation

Behold how in this Dispensation the worthless and foolish have fondly imagined that by such instruments as massacre, plunder and banishment they can extinguish the Lamp which the Hand of Divine power hath lit, or eclipse the Daystar of everlasting splendor. How utterly unaware they seem to be of the truth that such adversity is the oil that feedeth the flame of this Lamp! Such is God’s transforming power. He changeth whatsoever He willeth; He verily hath power over all things.…

Translation Notes

ملاحظه

mláḥẓh l-ḥ-ẓ → “behold”

literal: observation; observe; observation, consideration

consider 41% reflect 14% behold 13% observe 13% witness 5% recognize 3% regard 3% witnessed 3% ponder 3% read 3%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §218: observe gleaningsGWB §39: doth recognize kitab-i-ahdAhd §15: regard kitab-i-iqanKIQ §203: noticed prayers-and-meditationsP&M §856: the eyes will-and-testamentW&T §30: observed epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §32: recognized gleaningsGWB §132: ye will discover

همج

hmj h-m-j → “abject”

literal: rabble; rabble, ignorant; rabble/lowly

abject 18% worthless 9% small-minded 9% vain 9% contemptible 9% undiscerning 9% base-born 9% blind 9% mean 9% foolish 9%

gleaningsGWB §131: worthless and foolish kitab-i-iqanKIQ §185: blind and ignoble gleaningsGWB §40: small-minded, contemptible kitab-i-iqanKIQ §153: undiscerning gleaningsGWB §692: abject kitab-i-iqanKIQ §178: base-born kitab-i-iqanKIQ §143: vain kitab-i-iqanKIQ §93: foolish

رعاع

rʿáʿ r-ʿ-ʿ → “worthless and foolish”

literal: mob; rabble; riffraff/mob

SE expanded to “worthless and foolish”

foolish 25% worthless 8% small-minded 8% despicable 8% people 8% wretched 8% erring 8% blind 8% depraved 8% abject 8%

gleaningsGWB §692: foolish kitab-i-iqanKIQ §135: despicable souls gleaningsGWB §40: small-minded, contemptible kitab-i-iqanKIQ §153: wretched gleaningsGWB §131: worthless and foolish kitab-i-iqanKIQ §185: blind and ignoble kitab-i-iqanKIQ §273: depraved kitab-i-iqanKIQ §148: people

گمان

gmán g-m-n → “think”

literal: think

think 43% hath 14% methinks 14% idle 14% believing 14%

gleaningsGWB §421: Think kitab-i-iqanKIQ §283: methinks the-hidden-wordsHW §136: Think not will-and-testamentW&T §52: believing gleaningsGWB §563: hath imagined the-hidden-wordsHW §104: thine idle imaginings

نموده‌اند

nmúdh‌ánd n-m-w → “have”

literal: do; to do; show

have 50% interpreted 13% related 13% presume 13% devising 13%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §168: interpret gleaningsGWB §110: measure kitab-i-iqanKIQ §89: expounded the-hidden-wordsHW §142: hath emboldened will-and-testamentW&T §14: was noised abroad epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §34: meditated gleaningsGWB §334: allow kitab-i-iqanKIQ §10: again

بقتل

bqtl q-t-l → “massacre” Distinctive

literal: kill; killing; killed

This form usually rendered as “death”, “murder”, “put” (29 occurrences)

death 36% murder 14% put 14% massacre 9% wage 5% shed 5% life 5% who 5% martyrdom 5% slaying 5%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §110: slewest gleaningsGWB §454: slain kitab-i-iqanKIQ §276: put to death prayers-and-meditationsP&M §784: to put an end will-and-testamentW&T §3: manslayers epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: hast slain gleaningsGWB §453: Ye slay kitab-i-iqanKIQ §275: will slay

غارت

ghárt gh-r-t → “pillage”

literal: pillage

1 occurrence in corpus

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §142: pillage

نفی

nfí n-f-y → “denial”

literal: negation; denial; negation, denial

denial 54% negation 15% nothingness 8% banishment 8% doth 8% truth 8%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §232: denial gleaningsGWB §95: doth in no wise kitab-i-iqanKIQ §199: negation prayers-and-meditationsP&M §839: of negation gleaningsGWB §127: nothingness kitab-i-iqanKIQ §163: incompatible prayers-and-meditationsP&M §838: Thy Self gleaningsGWB §131: banishment

احبّای

iḥbbáy ḥ-b-b

literal: love; beloved; beloved ones

SE rendered نموده‌اند (nmúdh‌ánd), بقتل (bqtl), غارت (ghárt), نفی (nfí), احبّای (iḥbbáy), الهی (al-hí), از (iz), بلاد (blád), توانند (túánnd), سراج (sráj), قدرت (qdrt) as “have, massacre, plunder, banishment, God, can, extinguish the Lamp, power”

loved 41% beloved 26% ye 15% love 6% followers 3% friends 3% such 3% steadfast 3%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §150: all who adore Thee fire-tabletFire §7: of Thy love gleaningsGWB §629: Thy loved ones kitab-i-iqanKIQ §205: the Best-Beloved prayers-and-meditationsP&M §23: for love of Thee tablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: I long tablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §40: the Beloved One the-hidden-wordsHW §24: seek thine own

الهی

al-hí ʾ-l-h → “god”

literal: God; divine; god

god 64% divine 22% god’s 5% lord 4% holy 2% mystic 1% heavenly 1% grace 1% god-given 1% pertaineth 1%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §109: Divine gleaningsGWB §204: her God kitab-i-iqanKIQ §36: Truth prayers-and-meditationsP&M §371: O my God the-hidden-wordsHW §147: celestial will-and-testamentW&T §23: is of God epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §102: God gleaningsGWB §668: set

از

iz ʾ-z

literal: from

SE rendered بقتل (bqtl), غارت (ghárt), نفی (nfí), احبّای (iḥbbáy), الهی (al-hí), از (iz), بلاد (blád), توانند (túánnd), سراج (sráj), قدرت (qdrt), ربّانی (rbbání) as “massacre, plunder, banishment, God, can, extinguish the Lamp, power, Divine”

23 occurrences in corpus

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §128: of kitab-i-iqanKIQ §176: from kitab-i-iqanKIQ §176: at kitab-i-iqanKIQ §246: Amongst

بلاد

blád b-l-d

literal: lands; land

SE rendered غارت (ghárt), نفی (nfí), احبّای (iḥbbáy), الهی (al-hí), از (iz), بلاد (blád), توانند (túánnd), سراج (sráj), قدرت (qdrt), ربّانی (rbbání) as “plunder, banishment, God, can, extinguish the Lamp, power, Divine”