Gleanings — §329
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 329 of 729.
Source (Arabic)
از آن بعضی از متوهّمین باوهام خود جمیع اشیاء را شریک حقّ نمودهاند و معذلک خود را اهل توحید شمردهاند لا ونفسه الحقّ آن نفوس اهل
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Some, deluded by their idle fancies, have conceived all created things as associates and partners of God, and imagined themselves to be the exponents of His unity. By Him Who is the one true God! Such men have been, and will continue to remain, the victims of blind imitation, and are to be numbered with them that have restricted and limited the conception of God.
Translation Notes
SE rendered از (iz), بعضی (bʿḍí), از (iz), متوهّمین (mtúhhmín), باوهام (báwhám) as “Some, deluded, idle fancies”
23 occurrences in corpus
This form usually rendered as “superstitious”, “deluded”, “people” (4 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §175: superstitiousfire-tabletFire §24: idle imaginingsgleaningsGWB §610: vain imaginationkitab-i-iqanKIQ §85: idle and faulty conceptionprayers-and-meditationsP&M §750: of their fanciestablet-of-ahmadAhmad §12: of delusionthe-hidden-wordsHW §83: doubtwill-and-testamentW&T §34: suspicion
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §122: great manygleaningsGWB §148: one and allkitab-i-ahdAhd §2: layeth upkitab-i-iqanKIQ §119: togetherprayers-and-meditationsP&M §154: that all may gather togethertablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §56: They all gatheredthe-hidden-wordsHW §92: wisdomwill-and-testamentW&T §22: all the universe
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §103: thingsgleaningsGWB §29: things.”kitab-i-iqanKIQ §48: willeth.”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §231: of creationtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §6: desirethtablet-of-carmelCarmel §2: created things.’the-hidden-wordsHW §69: substanceepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §144: of all created things
SE expanded to “associates and partners”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §193: associate a partnergleaningsGWB §374: peers and partnerskitab-i-iqanKIQ §196: an act of blasphemyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §237: naught but open blasphemythe-hidden-wordsHW §153: arewill-and-testamentW&T §5: my partnerepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: a partnergleaningsGWB §163: of the perverse and faithless
SE rendered اشیاء (ishíáʾ), شریک (shrík), حقّ (ḥqq), نمودهاند (nmúdhánd), معذلک (mʿdhlk), اهل (ihl), توحید (túḥíd), شمردهاند (shmrdhánd) as “created things, associates and partners, God, conceived, exponents, unity, imagined”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §171: familygleaningsGWB §151: were destitute of all learningkitab-i-ahdAhd §5: beholders ofkitab-i-iqanKIQ §217: jewellerprayers-and-meditationsP&M §160: unto the followersthe-hidden-wordsHW §109: DWELLERSwill-and-testamentW&T §34: devotedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §244: such as
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §64: unto Thy unityfire-tabletFire §43: of OnenessgleaningsGWB §287: the unitykitab-i-iqanKIQ §71: successivelyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §843: singlenesstablet-of-ahmadAhmad §2: believers in the Divine Unitytablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §51: lonethe-hidden-wordsHW §69: dust
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