Gleanings — §512

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 512 of 729.

Source (Arabic)

عنقریب جمیع اهل عالم بیک لسان و یک خطّ مزیّن در این صورت هر نفسی بهر بلدی توجّه نماید مثل آن است که در بیت خود وارد شده این امور لازم و واجب هر ذی بصر و سمعی باید جهد نماید تا اسباب آنچه ذکر شد از عالم الفاظ و اقوال بعرصهٴ شهود و ظهور آید...

Shoghi Effendi Translation

We fain would hope that the kings and rulers of the earth, the mirrors of the gracious and almighty name of God, may attain unto this station, and shield mankind from the onslaught of tyranny.… The day is approaching when all the peoples of the world will have adopted one universal language and one common script. When this is achieved, to whatsoever city a man may journey, it shall be as if he were entering his own home. These things are obligatory and absolutely essential.

Translation Notes

عنقریب

q-r-b → “day is approaching” Distinctive

literal: soon; shortly; ere long

جمیع

j-m-ʿ → “all”

literal: to gather; to assemble; group; number

اهل

ʾ-h-l → “peoples”

literal: people; inhabitants; family; kin; worthy; deserving; my family; my people; my kin

عالم

ʿ-l-m → “world”

literal: world; universe; the worlds

بیک

y-k → “one”

literal: one; a single

لسان

l-s-n → “language” Distinctive

literal: tongue; language

خطّ

kh-ṭ-ṭ → “script”

literal: line; writing; path; course

مزیّن

literal: to adorn; ornament; beauty; adornment; embellishment; decoration

در

literal: in; in, at; radiant

این

ʾ-y-n → “this Chapter”

literal: this; these

صورت

literal: to imagine; to conceive; to suppose

نفسی

n-f-s → “man” Distinctive

literal: self; soul; psyche; person; essence

بهر

h-r → “every”

literal: whatever; all that; whatever thing

بلدی

b-l-d → “city”

literal: city; land; country

توجّه

w-j-h → “face” Distinctive

literal: face; countenance; direction; aspect

نماید

n-m-ʾ → “may”

literal: to show, display, exhibit; to grow, develop

مثل

m-th-l → “as if”

literal: like; example; parable; similitude

است

b-w-d → “is”

literal: to be; are (third person plural present copula)

که

k-h

literal: that; who; who, that

بیت

b-y-t → “home” Distinctive

literal: house; household; family; verse

خود

kh-w-d → “own”

literal: self; himself; herself; itself; own

وارد

w-r-d → “entering”

literal: to enter, to come, to befall, to arrive

شده

literal: to become; to be

امور

ʾ-m-r → “things”

literal: command; cause; matter; affair

لازم

l-z-m → “necessary”

literal: necessary, incumbent, obligatory, essential

واجب

w-j-b → “incumbent”

literal: incumbent; obligatory; necessary; required

ذی

literal: possessor; possessor of; possessor/owner

بصر

literal: sight; insight; discernment; spiritual perception

سمعی

literal: heard, hearkened to, acceptable, worthy of attention

باید

literal: by hand; with hands; eternal; perpetual; everlasting

جهد

literal: effort; striving; exertion; endeavor

تا

literal: so that/until

اسباب

literal: cause; reason; means; instrument

آنچه

ʾ-n → “to”

literal: that; those; he; she; it

ذکر

literal: remembrance; mention; memory; invocation; reminders; commemorations

از

ʾ-z → “from the onslaught of tyranny.…”

literal: from

الفاظ

literal: word; utterance; expression

اقوال

literal: rising; standing; uprising; resurrection

بعرصهٴ

literal: arena; field; space; open place

شهود

sh-h-d → “witness” Distinctive

literal: witnessed; observed; seen; evident; manifest

ظهور

ẓ-h-r → “Revelation”

literal: manifestation; appearance; to appear; to manifest

آید...

literal: come; support; may aid

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