Gleanings — §141

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 141 of 729.

Source (Arabic)

و جان مردمانرا بزرگترین مایهٴ آسایش و پرورش است خوشا روز آنکه بیاری خداوند یکتا از آلایش گیتی و آنچه در او است رهائی یافت و در سایهٴ درخت دانائی بیاسود آوای هزاردستان که بر شاخسار

Shoghi Effendi Translation

This robe with which the body and soul of man hath been adorned is the very foundation of his well-being and development. Oh, how blessed the day when, aided by the grace and might of the one true God, man will have freed himself from the bondage and corruption of the world and all that is therein, and will have attained unto true and abiding rest beneath the shadow of the Tree of Knowledge!

Translation Notes

مردمانرا

mrdmánrá m-r-d → “man”

literal: man

man 50% mankind 50%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §11: them who are as dead gleaningsGWB §144: peoples kitab-i-iqanKIQ §136: found the-hidden-wordsHW §120: others will-and-testamentW&T §20: disobey epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §238: people gleaningsGWB §144: the children of men kitab-i-iqanKIQ §138: those

بزرگترین

bzrgtrín b-z-r-g → “great” Distinctive

literal: great; greatness; great/big

This form usually rendered as “foundation” (1 occurrences)

great 20% exalted 13% greatness 13% lofty 13% high 7% mighty 7% foundation 7% exalteth 7% mightier 7% grandeur 7%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §113: high dignitaries gleaningsGWB §336: the greatness kitab-i-ahdAhd §3: Lofty kitab-i-iqanKIQ §266: glory epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §55: mighty gleaningsGWB §332: great kitab-i-iqanKIQ §262: sure gleaningsGWB §336: exalted character

مایهٴ

máyhٴ m-y-h

literal: host; foundation; cause, means

SE rendered جان (ján), مردمانرا (mrdmánrá), بزرگترین (bzrgtrín), مایهٴ (máyhٴ), آسایش (ásáysh), پرورش (prúrsh), خوشا (khúshá), روز (rúz) as “soul, man, very foundation, well-being, development, blessed, day”

3 occurrences in corpus

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §112: Government Official

آسایش

ásáysh ʾ-s-y → “well-being”

literal: comfort, ease; rest, comfort; peace

well-being 33% sweetness 33% real 33%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §77: the well-being gleaningsGWB §287: the sweetness of rest kitab-i-ahdAhd §3: real peace

پرورش

prúrsh p-r-w-r → “beg” Distinctive

literal: development

This form usually rendered as “development”, “ensure” (2 occurrences)

development 50% ensure 50%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §11: We beg of Thee gleaningsGWB §141: development gleaningsGWB §144: ensure

خوشا

khúshá kh-w-sh → “sweet”

literal: pleasant; pleasant, sweet

sweet 43% blessed 14% blissful 14% well 14% pleasant 14%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §77: delivered gleaningsGWB §141: blessed kitab-i-iqanKIQ §12: well hath the-hidden-wordsHW §147: Pleasant gleaningsGWB §674: sweet gleaningsGWB §688: blissful

روز

rúz r-w-z → “day”

literal: day; today; that-day

day 64% days 9% stage 9% daytime 9% day-time 9%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §190: in this day gleaningsGWB §675: day hath succeeded kitab-i-iqanKIQ §84: mankind will-and-testamentW&T §57: by day epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §230: days gleaningsGWB §362: daytime kitab-i-iqanKIQ §251: In the day-time epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §109: this day

آنکه

ánkh ʾ-n → “have”

literal: that; indeed; that, to

have 10% behold 10% will 10% such 10% either 10% \‘verily 10% verily 10% truth 10% \‘they 10% although 10%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §37: such moments kitab-i-iqanKIQ §151: that He the-hidden-wordsHW §120: moment epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §149: to kitab-i-iqanKIQ §153: Although epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §149: He kitab-i-iqanKIQ §70: for epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §88: If

بیاری

bíárí y-ʾ-r → “friends” Distinctive

literal: friend; aid

This form usually rendered as “aided” (1 occurrences)

friends 25% aided 13% sigh 13% robe 13% beloved 13% loving 13% loved 13%

gleaningsGWB §141: aided by the grace the-hidden-wordsHW §97: of His robe will-and-testamentW&T §42: loved ones the-hidden-wordsHW §120: sigh will-and-testamentW&T §13: friends will-and-testamentW&T §24: loving friends will-and-testamentW&T §14: beloved

یکتا

yktá y-k-t → “one true”

literal: one

one 67% incomparable 33%

gleaningsGWB §141: one true gleaningsGWB §147: incomparable

از

iz ʾ-z → “from”

literal: from

SE rendered خوشا (khúshá), روز (rúz), آنکه (ánkh), بیاری (bíárí), خداوند (khdáwnd), یکتا (yktá), از (iz), آلایش (áláysh), گیتی (gítí), آنچه (ánchh) as “blessed, day, when, aided by the grace, God, one true, from, bondage and corruption, world, that”