Gleanings — §605

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 605 of 729.

Source (Arabic)

شد بعد از عرفان مطلع توحید و مشرق تفرید دو امر لازم اوّل استقامت بر حبّش بشأنی که نعاق ناعقین و ادّعای مدّعین او را از حقّ منع ننماید و کأن لم یکن شیئاً انگارد و ثانی اتّباع اوامر او است که لم‌یزل مابین ناس بوده و خواهد بود و باو حقّ از باطل ممتاز و معلوم است...

Shoghi Effendi Translation

A twofold obligation resteth upon him who hath recognized the Dayspring of the Unity of God, and acknowledged the truth of Him Who is the Manifestation of His oneness. The first is steadfastness in His love, such steadfastness that neither the clamor of the enemy nor the claims of the idle pretender can deter him from cleaving unto Him Who is the Eternal Truth, a steadfastness that taketh no account of them whatever. The second is strict observance of the laws He hath prescribed — laws which He hath always ordained, and will continue to ordain, unto men, and through which the truth may be distinguished and separated from falsehood.

Translation Notes

شد

sh-d → “was”

literal: to become; to be

بعد

b-ʿ-d → “upon” Distinctive

literal: after; behind; distance

از

ʾ-z → “from cleaving unto Him Who is”

literal: from

عرفان

ʿ-r-f → “recognized”

literal: to confess; to acknowledge; to recognize

مطلع

ṭ-l-ʿ → “Dayspring”

literal: rising; appearance; countenance; manifestation

توحید

w-ḥ-d → “Unity”

literal: Divine unity; monotheism; belief in the oneness of God

مشرق

sh-r-q

literal: radiance; splendor; dawn; illumination

تفرید

f-r-d → “Thy oneness”

literal: unique; singular; incomparable

دو

d-w

literal: two; run; running

امر

ʾ-m-r → “Cause”

literal: command; cause; matter; affair; Cause (of God); to command; to order

لازم

l-z-m → “necessary”

literal: necessary, incumbent, obligatory, essential

اوّل

ʾ-w-l → “first”

literal: first; beginning; at first; the first; former; possessors of; those who have; masters of

استقامت

q-w-m → “steadfastness”

literal: sickness; disease; ailment

بر

b-r-r → “in” Distinctive

literal: by, with, through (preposition)

حبّش

ḥ-b-b → “His love”

literal: Ethiopian; Abyssinian

بشأنی

sh-ʾ-n → “such”

literal: affair; concern; matter; aspect; quality; state; affairs; matters; conditions; circumstances; affair, matter, station, rank, dignity; station; rank; importance; matter, affair, concern, dignity, rank

که

k-h → “that neither”

literal: that; who; who, that

نعاق

n-ʿ-q → “clamor”

literal: to cry out; to call; crier; bleater

ادّعای

d-ʿ-y → “claims”

literal: to claim; to allege; claim; assertion; to assert

او

h-w-w → “is”

literal: he; it (third person pronoun); refuge; shelter; dwelling place; abode; lamentation, cry, woe; melody, song