Gleanings — §243
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 243 of 729.
Source (Arabic)
فأنصفوا فی انفسکم یا ایّها الوکلآء بأیّ ذنب اطردتمونا و بأیّ جرم اخرجتمونا بعد الّذی استأجرناکم و ما آجرتمونا فوالله هذا لظلم عظیم الّذی لن یقاس بظلم فی الأرض و کان الله علی ما اقول شهید.... فاعلموا بأنّ الدّنیا و زینتها و زخرفها سیفنی
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Be fair in your judgment, O ye Ministers of State! What is it that We have committed that could justify Our banishment? What is the offense that hath warranted Our expulsion? It is We Who have sought you, and yet, behold how ye refused to receive Us! By God! This is a sore injustice that ye have perpetrated — an injustice with which no earthly injustice can measure. To this the Almighty is Himself a witness.…
Know ye that the world and its vanities and its embellishments shall pass away.
Translation Notes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §133: “Judge thou fairlygleaningsGWB §195: Judge ye fairlykitab-i-iqanKIQ §223: unswervingprayers-and-meditationsP&M §754: fair-minded soulthe-hidden-wordsHW §47: Judge thou arightwill-and-testamentW&T §5: this iniquitous personepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §110: fairnessgleaningsGWB §412: Observe equity in your judgment
This form usually rendered as “yourselves”, “own”, “souls” (66 occurrences)
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 §134: thy passionsgleaningsGWB §287: any mankitab-i-iqanKIQ §114: is exercised byprayers-and-meditationsP&M §774: owntablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §37: within thyselfthe-hidden-wordsHW §156: desirewill-and-testamentW&T §44: souls such as theseepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: thy
SE expanded to “Ministers of State”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §201: officialsgleaningsGWB §69: My reliance on Godkitab-i-iqanKIQ §2: put their trust inprayers-and-meditationsP&M §578: I have placed my whole confidencetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §12: Relythe-hidden-wordsHW §9: to put thy trustwill-and-testamentW&T §25: representepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §8: to put my trust
sin 21% crime 21% sins 14% committed 7% transgressions 7% sin?’ 7% transgression 7% sinfulness 7% blasphemous 7%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §88: My singleaningsGWB §655: of such as transgress against Theekitab-i-iqanKIQ §186: his sin?’prayers-and-meditationsP&M §169: the most sinfulthe-hidden-wordsHW §50: sinfulepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §265: his transgressionsgleaningsGWB §243: committedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §68: mistake
This form usually rendered as “banishment” (1 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §115: drive them not awaygleaningsGWB §464: reject Uskitab-i-iqanKIQ §260: outcastprayers-and-meditationsP&M §303: drive them not outepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §227: cast them outgleaningsGWB §461: Thrust not awaykitab-i-iqanKIQ §114: cast Him out from their midstprayers-and-meditationsP&M §400: drive them away
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: crimegleaningsGWB §465: of the transgressorskitab-i-iqanKIQ §186: the sinnersepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §110: of the wickedgleaningsGWB §256: a tittle of evidencekitab-i-iqanKIQ §88: transgressorepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §88: My crimegleaningsGWB §466: We have committed
This form usually rendered as “expulsion” (1 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §239: “BegonegleaningsGWB §708: proceedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §271: hereticprayers-and-meditationsP&M §489: have abandonedtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §25: looked outthe-hidden-wordsHW §104: thou didst issuewill-and-testamentW&T §43: out fromepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §132: abandoned
This form usually rendered as “have” (1 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §125: rewardgleaningsGWB §243: have sought youkitab-i-iqanKIQ §22: meedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §101: the recompensetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §15: the rewardepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §103: his due recompensegleaningsGWB §537: recompenseepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §198: I will recompense
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §150: unto Godfire-tabletFire §41: after GodgleaningsGWB §368: of Divinekitab-i-ahdAhd §10: the divine Testatorkitab-i-iqanKIQ §234: our godsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §164: O Thou Who art my Godtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §50: By the Lordthe-hidden-wordsHW §147: celestial
This form usually rendered as “tyranny”, “darkness”, “oppression” (97 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §133: iniquityfire-tabletFire §49: meeknessgleaningsGWB §523: unjustkitab-i-iqanKIQ §160: darkenedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §13: my oppressorsthe-hidden-wordsHW §144: gloomwill-and-testamentW&T §34: hath wrought the most glaring cruelty upon Theeepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §110: injustice
SE rendered فوالله (fúállh), لظلم (lẓlm), عظیم (ʿẓím), یقاس (yqás), بظلم (bẓlm) as “By God, sore injustice, can measure, earthly injustice”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §208: the greatnessgleaningsGWB §587: impenetrablekitab-i-ahdAhd §7: categoricallykitab-i-iqanKIQ §177: more grievousprayers-and-meditationsP&M §291: Thy greatnessthe-hidden-wordsHW §42: Magnifywill-and-testamentW&T §7: Crownepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: Thy grandeur
This form usually rendered as “can” (1 occurrences)
SE rendered یقاس (yqás), بظلم (bẓlm), الأرض (ar-rḍ), الله (al-lh), اقول (iqúl), شهید (shhíd) as “can measure, earthly injustice, witness.…”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §112: cityfire-tabletFire §36: a desolate landgleaningsGWB §192: earth.”kitab-i-iqanKIQ §51: “The whole earthprayers-and-meditationsP&M §122: on Thy earthtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §43: the landsthe-hidden-wordsHW §1: in the realmepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §110: in this land
SE rendered اقول (iqúl), شهید (shhíd), فاعلموا (fáʿlmúá), الدّنیا (ad-dníá) as “witness.…, Know ye, the world”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §138: sayinggleaningsGWB §122: “Saykitab-i-ahdAhd §14: speakethkitab-i-iqanKIQ §275: I saidprayers-and-meditationsP&M §278: entreateth Thee sayingtablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: ‘Call out totablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §31: And thus proclaimedthe-hidden-wordsHW §79: idly
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §243: gazedfire-tabletFire §48: the placegleaningsGWB §13: attestkitab-i-ahdAhd §3: appearethkitab-i-iqanKIQ §128: it is evidentprayers-and-meditationsP&M §535: the fieldtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §12: as thou also dost witnessthe-hidden-wordsHW §46: Seek a martyr’s death
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §91: the peoples of the earthfire-tabletFire §49: all the worldsgleaningsGWB §72: of all nationskitab-i-ahdAhd §2: recognizedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §177: clericsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §358: Whose knowledgetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §17: of all the worldstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §13: which we have taught
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §121: The life of the present worldgleaningsGWB §370: earthlykitab-i-iqanKIQ §130: or lowprayers-and-meditationsP&M §220: that the worldthe-hidden-wordsHW §23: abasedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §92: worldlinessgleaningsGWB §278: of the earthkitab-i-iqanKIQ §251: sordid
This form usually rendered as “vanities”, “apparels” (2 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §125: adornedfire-tabletFire §31: AdornergleaningsGWB §362: gratifykitab-i-ahdAhd §7: is investedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §218: re-adornedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §748: hath adornedthe-hidden-wordsHW §126: adorneth himselfepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §193: decked with
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §155: your treasuresgleaningsGWB §40: foolish absurditieskitab-i-iqanKIQ §232: idleepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §94: the treasuresgleaningsGWB §406: thingskitab-i-iqanKIQ §95: emolumentsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §182: treasuresgleaningsGWB §395: corruptible treasures
SE expanded to “shall pass away”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §79: yours perishethgleaningsGWB §588: extinctionkitab-i-iqanKIQ §238: signifiethprayers-and-meditationsP&M §298: its fleetingnessthe-hidden-wordsHW §132: detachmentepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §85: perishgleaningsGWB §673: perishethkitab-i-iqanKIQ §146: vanishing mortals
