Gleanings — §355
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 355 of 729.
Source (Arabic)
معان لا تحویها قمص الألفاظ وکم منها لیست لها عبارة ولم تعط بیانًا ولا اشارةً وکم منها لا یمکن بیانها لعدم حضور أوانها کما قیل: "لا کلّ ما یعلم یقال ولا کلّ ما یقال حان وقته ولا کلّ ما حان وقته حضر أهله"، ومنها ما
Shoghi Effendi Translation
How great the multitude of truths which the garment of words can never contain! How vast the number of such verities as no expression can adequately describe, whose significance can never be unfolded, and to which not even the remotest allusions can be made! How manifold are the truths which must remain unuttered until the appointed time is come! Even as it hath been said: “Not everything that a man knoweth can be disclosed, nor can everything that he can disclose be regarded as timely, nor can every timely utterance be considered as suited to the capacity of those who hear it.”
Translation Notes
یمکن
literal: establishment; confirmation; empowerment; firm settlement; place; possibility; being (negated as ‘non-being’)
