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Gleanings — §676

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 676 of 729.

Source (Arabic)

دیگر چاره از دست رود و امور از شصت شمع باقی بی‌فانوس روشن و منیر گشته و تمام حجبات فانی را سوخته ای پروانگان بی‌پروا بشتابید و بر آتش زنید و ای عاشقان بیدل و جان بر معشوق بیائید و بی‌رقیب نزد محبوب دوید گل مستور ببازار آمد بی ستر و حجاب آمد و بکلّ ارواح مقدّسه ندای وصل میزند چه نیکو است اقبال مقبلین فهنیئاً للفائزین بأنوار حسن بدیع

Shoghi Effendi Translation

The everlasting Candle shineth in its naked glory. Behold how it hath consumed every mortal veil. O ye moth-like lovers of His light! Brave every danger, and consecrate your souls to its consuming flame. O ye that thirst after Him! Strip yourselves of every earthly affection, and hasten to embrace your Beloved. With a zest that none can equal make haste to attain unto Him. The Flower, thus far hidden from the sight of men, is unveiled to your eyes. In the open radiance of His glory He standeth before you. His voice summoneth all the holy and sanctified beings to come and be united with Him. Happy is he that turneth thereunto; well is it with him that hath attained, and gazed on the light of so wondrous a countenance.

Translation Notes

دیگر
d-g-r

literal: home; place; land; abode

چاره
ch-r-h

literal: remedy; cure; solution; means; way

از
ʾ-z

literal: from

دست
d-s-t

literal: hand; control, power, authority

رود
r-w-d

literal: to go; to come; to proceed

امور
ʾ-m-r

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

شصت
sh-ṣ-t → “everlasting Candle”

literal: sixty (numeral)

شمع
sh-m-ʿ

literal: candle, lamp, light

باقی
b-q-y

literal: remaining; everlasting; eternal; immortal

روشن
r-w-sh → “illumined”

literal: light; illumination; brilliance; clarity

منیر
n-w-r → “light” Distinctive

literal: light; illumination

گشته
g-sh-t

literal: become; became; to become

تمام
t-m-m → “all”

literal: most complete; to complete; perfect; fullness

حجبات
ḥ-j-b → “every mortal veil”

literal: states; conditions; circumstances; situations; affairs

فانی
f-n-y → “every mortal veil” Distinctive

literal: annihilation; perishing; extinction; cessation; the threshold

را
r-ʾ-ʾ

literal: object marker; object-marker; to

سوخته
s-w-kh → “hath consumed”

literal: to burn; to consume; to be inflamed

ای
ʾ-y-y → “signs” Distinctive

literal: O; vocative particle; oh (vocative particle)

بشتابید
sh-t-b → “hasten to embrace”

literal: to hasten; to hurry; hastily

بر
b-r-r

literal: by, with, through (preposition)

آتش
ʾ-t-sh → “fire”

literal: fire; flame

بیدل
d-l-l → “proof”

literal: heart; core; courage

جان
j-ʾ-n

literal: soul; life; spirit; self

معشوق
ʿ-sh-q → “your Beloved”

literal: love, passion, ardor

نزد
n-z-d → “make haste to attain unto”

literal: near; beside; with; in the presence of

محبوب
ḥ-b-b

literal: love; affection

دوید
d-w

literal: to run; to hasten; to strive; ran; rushed

گل
g-l → “Flower” Distinctive

literal: rose-garden; garden of flowers

مستور
s-t-r → “hidden”

literal: to veil; to conceal; to cover; veil; covering

ببازار
b-z-r

literal: free from, disgusted with, weary of, averse to

آمد
ʾ-m-d → “came”

literal: to come; to go; to arrive; came

بی
b-y

literal: without; is; to

بکلّ
k-l-l → “all”

literal: all; every; whole; entirety; entire; completely

ارواح
r-w-ḥ → “holy and sanctified beings” Distinctive

literal: to go; to depart; to rest; spirit; soul

مقدّسه
q-d-s

literal: holy, sacred, sanctified

ندای
n-d-y → “voice”

literal: call; voice; cry; summons

وصل
w-ṣ-l → “come and be united” Distinctive

literal: reunion; union; meeting; connection

چه
ch-h

literal: what; what/for; whatsoever, that which

نیکو
n-y-k → “well is it with” Distinctive

literal: good, well, proper, beautiful

است
b-w-d

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

اقبال
q-b-l → “turneth” Distinctive

literal: group; company; tribe; sort; kind

فهنیئاً
h-n-ʾ → “Happy”

literal: there; in that place; happy; congratulation

للفائزین
f-w-z → “hath attained” Distinctive

literal: triumphant; victorious; successful

حسن
ḥ-s-n → “most excellent” Distinctive

literal: goodness; beauty; excellence; good deed

بدیع
b-d-ʿ → “wondrous”

literal: to create; most wondrous; excel

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