Gleanings — §241
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 241 of 729.
Source (Arabic)
قل أتأخذون اصولکم و تضعون اصول الله ورآء ظهورکم و انّ هذا لظلم علی انفسکم و انفس العباد
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Say: What! Cleave ye to your own devices, and cast behind your backs the precepts of God? Ye, indeed, have wronged your own selves and others.
Translation Notes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §88: would answer and saygleaningsGWB §572: your professionskitab-i-ahdAhd §14: speakethkitab-i-iqanKIQ §235: are their sayingsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §752: and saidtablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: ‘Call out totablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §34: And commanded herthe-hidden-wordsHW §79: idly
SE expanded to “your own devices”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §92: essencegleaningsGWB §356: to the Rootkitab-i-iqanKIQ §93: falseprayers-and-meditationsP&M §809: stemsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §104: foundationsgleaningsGWB §712: upon the fundamentalskitab-i-iqanKIQ §122: essentialepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §84: the statutes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §55: forsakegleaningsGWB §75: hath been appointedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §93: instancesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §780: hast establishedthe-hidden-wordsHW §41: humblenesswill-and-testamentW&T §39: hath power to enactepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §102: Cast awaygleaningsGWB §63: will cast away
SE rendered أتأخذون (ʾatʾakhdhún), اصولکم (iṣúlkm), تضعون (tḍʿún), اصول (iṣúl), الله (al-lh), ورآء (wráʾ), ظهورکم (ẓhúrkm), لظلم (lẓlm) as “Cleave ye, your own devices, cast, the precepts of God, behind, your backs, have wronged”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §155: behind your backsgleaningsGWB §385: beyond itprayers-and-meditationsP&M §274: moreovertablet-of-carmelCarmel §1: beyondepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §86: after theegleaningsGWB §635: thy backprayers-and-meditationsP&M §831: and beyond themepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §134: behind thy back
revelation 29% manifestation 16% manifestations 13% revealed 8% manifest 8% hath 7% made 6% manifested 5% appeared 5% revelations 4%
This form usually rendered as “tyranny”, “darkness”, “oppression” (97 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §33: A brutal manfire-tabletFire §49: meeknessgleaningsGWB §203: menkitab-i-iqanKIQ §116: wronged and oppressedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §331: eclipsedthe-hidden-wordsHW §144: gloomwill-and-testamentW&T §34: wrought the most glaring crueltyepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §128: victims of oppression
SE expanded to “your own selves”
yourselves 50% own 16% souls 10% hearts 8% desires 4% ye 4% upon 2% nature 2% judgment 2% waywardness 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §105: their owngleaningsGWB §250: ye have devisedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §12: handsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §227: Thine owntablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §37: within thyselfthe-hidden-wordsHW §9: unto Mewill-and-testamentW&T §44: souls such as theseepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §42: you
SE rendered لظلم (lẓlm), انفسکم (infskm), انفس (infs), العباد (al-ʿbád) as “have wronged, your own selves, others”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §19: them that serve Himfire-tabletFire §50: all the servantsgleaningsGWB §628: these Thy servantskitab-i-iqanKIQ §148: this peopleprayers-and-meditationsP&M §855: this servanttablet-of-ahmadAhmad §15: a servicewill-and-testamentW&T §38: are servantsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §168: Abdi’llah
