Gleanings — §64
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 64 of 729.
Source (Arabic)
أَنِ افْرَحُوا يَا أَهْلَ اللهِ بِذِكْرِ أَيَّامٍ فِيْهَا ظَهَرَ الْفَرَحُ الأَعْظَمُ بِمَا نَطَقَ لِسَانُ الْقِدَمِ إِذْ خَرَجَ مِنَ الْبَيْتِ مُتَوَجِّهًا إِلى مَقَامٍ فِيْهِ تَجَلَّى بِاسْمِهِ الرَّحْمنِ عَلَى مَنْ فِي الإِمْكَانِ، تَاللهِ لَوْ نَذْكُرُ أَسْرَارَ ذَاكَ الْيَوْمِ لَيَنْصَعِقُ مَنْ فِي الْمُلْكِ وَالْمَلَكُوتِ إِلاَّ مَنْ شَاءَ اللهُ الْمُقْتَدِرُ الْعَلِيمُ الْحَكِيمُ،
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Rejoice with exceeding gladness, O people of Bahá, as ye call to remembrance the Day of supreme felicity, the Day whereon the Tongue of the Ancient of Days hath spoken, as He departed from His House, proceeding to the Spot from which He shed upon the whole of creation the splendors of His name, the All-Merciful. God is Our witness. Were We to reveal the hidden secrets of that Day, all they that dwell on earth and in the heavens would swoon away and die, except such as will be preserved by God, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
Translation Notes
SE expanded to “people of Bahá”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §94: of the peoplefire-tabletFire §41: the stirrersgleaningsGWB §273: denizenskitab-i-ahdAhd §5: beholderskitab-i-iqanKIQ §285: them who are the recognized Expounders thereofprayers-and-meditationsP&M §160: unto the followerstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §13: them that are withinthe-hidden-wordsHW §92: children
SE expanded to “call to remembrance”
mention 23% remembrance 18% mentioned 16% praise 14% recorded 6% words 6% recount 5% referred 5% make 4% references 4%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §223: regardinggleaningsGWB §114: be characterizedkitab-i-ahdAhd §3: mentioningkitab-i-iqanKIQ §155: summoning you to heedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §222: Thy remembrancetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §6: utter His calltablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §15: all mentionthe-hidden-wordsHW §44: Make mention of Me
SE expanded to “Day whereon the Tongue of”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §105: in this daygleaningsGWB §248: whilekitab-i-iqanKIQ §177: His daysprayers-and-meditationsP&M §454: days of my lifetablet-of-carmelCarmel §1: a Daythe-hidden-wordsHW §115: a passing daywill-and-testamentW&T §10: day passeth but thatepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §107: these days
SE rendered بِذِكْرِ (bidhikr), أَيَّامٍ (ʾayyámin), ظَهَرَ (ẓahar), الْفَرَحُ (al-faraḥ) as “call to remembrance, the, Day of supreme felicity”
hath 44% appeared 16% manifested 11% revealed 8% made 5% have 5% uncovered 5% come 3% defender 2% perpetrated 2%
SE rendered الْفَرَحُ (al-faraḥ), الأَعْظَمُ (al-ʾaʿẓam), نَطَقَ (naṭaq) as “Day of supreme felicity, spoken”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §189: most perfectgleaningsGWB §694: of My omnipotent glorykitab-i-ahdAhd §7: categoricallykitab-i-iqanKIQ §84: more dense and overpoweringprayers-and-meditationsP&M §109: bonethe-hidden-wordsHW §93: all-gloriouswill-and-testamentW&T §38: very greatepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §150: dire
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: made mentionfire-tabletFire §37: utterethgleaningsGWB §541: voicethkitab-i-ahdAhd §5: wordskitab-i-iqanKIQ §149: eloquentprayers-and-meditationsP&M §385: hath lifted up His voicetablet-of-carmelCarmel §5: hath been moved to disclosewill-and-testamentW&T §2: declared
SE rendered نَطَقَ (naṭaq), لِسَانُ (lisán), الْقِدَمِ (al-qidam), خَرَجَ (kharaj) as “spoken, Ancient of Days, departed”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §149: My tonguegleaningsGWB §174: saidkitab-i-iqanKIQ §64: speechprayers-and-meditationsP&M §379: the wish oftablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §48: her honeyed tonguethe-hidden-wordsHW §101: IN WORDepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: tongues ofgleaningsGWB §347: that tongue
SE expanded to “Ancient of Days”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §124: preferfire-tabletFire §1: the Most AncientgleaningsGWB §40: everlastingkitab-i-iqanKIQ §130: enteredprayers-and-meditationsP&M §422: by the eternity oftablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: by His presencethe-hidden-wordsHW §122: your footstepswill-and-testamentW&T §8: submitted
This form usually rendered as “have”, “gone”, “departeth” (11 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §84: Come ye outgleaningsGWB §563: departed from itkitab-i-iqanKIQ §129: come forthprayers-and-meditationsP&M §709: lefttablet-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 §93: Draw it forth
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §123: that same housegleaningsGWB §543: your habitationsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §458: my Habitationwill-and-testamentW&T §38: this Houseepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §40: a housegleaningsGWB §240: habitationprayers-and-meditationsP&M §547: Thy holy Habitationwill-and-testamentW&T §25: one
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §141: thy facefire-tabletFire §30: This FacegleaningsGWB §639: shall be hiskitab-i-ahdAhd §10: turn your faceskitab-i-iqanKIQ §245: quarter of the Heavensprayers-and-meditationsP&M §17: direct his facetablet-of-carmelCarmel §2: hast directed towards me Thy stepsthe-hidden-wordsHW §16: unto Mine
This form usually rendered as “station”, “connection”, “such” (339 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §120: unto the field offire-tabletFire §48: He hath risen upgleaningsGWB §256: a peoplekitab-i-ahdAhd §13: your stationkitab-i-iqanKIQ §18: that they may all ariseprayers-and-meditationsP&M §774: Thy transcendent sovereigntytablet-of-ahmadAhmad §9: so steadfasttablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §44: rose
revelation 52% splendor 10% splendour 10% one 6% “revelation” 6% glory 3% falls 3% shine 3% reveal 3% such 3%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §12: splendorsgleaningsGWB §138: releasekitab-i-iqanKIQ §149: Source of all splendourprayers-and-meditationsP&M §448: Thou didst reveal Thy Selftablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §8: appearedthe-hidden-wordsHW §136: clearepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §75: effulgencesgleaningsGWB §381: the revelation
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §229: of all namesfire-tabletFire §36: heavenlygleaningsGWB §496: lofty heightskitab-i-iqanKIQ §39: in terms ofprayers-and-meditationsP&M §250: in heaventablet-of-ahmadAhmad §11: My saketablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: Names.’tablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §12: divine attributes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: of Thy mercyfire-tabletFire §30: Thy compassiongleaningsGWB §92: gracekitab-i-ahdAhd §8: blessingskitab-i-iqanKIQ §153: heavenlyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §247: of Thy wondrous Mercytablet-of-ahmadAhmad §15: a mercytablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: in token of His mercy
SE rendered الرَّحْمنِ (ar-raḥmn), الإِمْكَانِ، (al-ʾimkáni،), تَاللهِ (tállh), لَوْ (law), نَذْكُرُ (nadhkur) as “All-Merciful, God, Were, reveal”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §30: all created thingsfire-tabletFire §20: every creaturegleaningsGWB §556: worldlykitab-i-iqanKIQ §103: the souls of menprayers-and-meditationsP&M §487: the lordship of all thingsthe-hidden-wordsHW §104: in existencewill-and-testamentW&T §23: earthlyepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §106: can
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §56: contentmentgleaningsGWB §357: is My mysterykitab-i-iqanKIQ §279: escapeprayers-and-meditationsP&M §267: my joytablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §35: inmostthe-hidden-wordsHW §95: self-satisfiedwill-and-testamentW&T §42: beganepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §162: secret
would 50% dumbfounded 50%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §193: swooned awaygleaningsGWB §354: would be dumbfoundedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §336: caused all things to expiregleaningsGWB §135: seized with violent commotiongleaningsGWB §395: to be dumbfoundedgleaningsGWB §22: dumbfoundedgleaningsGWB §117: thunderstruckgleaningsGWB §83: hath swooned away
This form usually rendered as “kingdom”, “king”, “sovereign” (118 occurrences)
kingdom 24% king 23% sovereign 12% dominion 8% kingdoms 8% world 7% sovereignty 5% angels 4% earth 4% all-possessing 4%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §191: “The KingdomgleaningsGWB §669: majestykitab-i-iqanKIQ §133: worldly dominionprayers-and-meditationsP&M §231: the empiretablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §15: the worldsthe-hidden-wordsHW §116: this worldwill-and-testamentW&T §15: farepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §68: dominion
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §155: all thingsgleaningsGWB §313: among all created thingskitab-i-iqanKIQ §75: Will,”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §437: do Thy pleasuretablet-of-ahmadAhmad §6: desirethtablet-of-carmelCarmel §2: created things.’the-hidden-wordsHW §49: everythingwill-and-testamentW&T §5: this one, unworthy though he be
almighty 34% powerful 16% potent 16% most 10% all-powerful 10% lord 5% god 3% omnipotent 3% power 3% strength 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §185: how great hath been the numberfire-tabletFire §48: OrdainergleaningsGWB §579: hath, moreover, ordainedkitab-i-ahdAhd §12: grantedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §125: cannotprayers-and-meditationsP&M §491: honoredtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §8: are notthe-hidden-wordsHW §72: be in thy power
all-knowing 73% omniscient 9% all-wise 5% knower 4% god 3% knowing 2% knoweth 2% aware 1% understanding 1% who 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §181: this worldfire-tabletFire §49: all the worldsgleaningsGWB §657: upon the whole worldkitab-i-ahdAhd §2: recognizedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §198: realm ofprayers-and-meditationsP&M §313: world of Thinetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §17: of all the worldstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §13: which we have taught
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §56: edictsgleaningsGWB §719: Him Who is the Fountain of wisdomkitab-i-ahdAhd §6: rulershipkitab-i-iqanKIQ §161: Messageprayers-and-meditationsP&M §778: have been rulingtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §5: the Wise Onethe-hidden-wordsHW §13: My commandwill-and-testamentW&T §22: conclusively
