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Gleanings — §682

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 682 of 729.

Source (Arabic)

موده‌ايد آيا بدايع قدرت سلطان احديّتم مفقود شده و يا نفوذ مشيّت و احاطه اراده‌ام از عالميان ممنوع گشته اگر نه چنين دانسته‌ايد چرا جمال عزّ قدس احديّتم را از ظهور منع نموده‌ايد و مظهر ذات عزّ ابها را از ظهور در سمآء قدس ابقاء ممنوع داشته‌ايد اگر چشم انصاف بگشائيد جميع حقايق ممکنات را از اين باده جديده بديعه سرمست بينيد و جميع ذرّات اشياء را از اشراق انوارش مشرق و منوّر خواهيد يافت فبئس ما انتم ظننتم و ساء ما انتم تظنّون

Shoghi Effendi Translation

O My servants! Let not your vain hopes and idle fancies sap the foundations of your belief in the All-Glorious God, inasmuch as such imaginings have been wholly unprofitable unto men, and failed to direct their steps unto the straight Path. Think ye, O My servants, that the Hand of My all-encompassing, My overshadowing, and transcendent sovereignty is chained up, that the flow of Mine ancient, My ceaseless, and all-pervasive mercy is checked, or that the clouds of My sublime and unsurpassed favors have ceased to rain their gifts upon men? Can ye imagine that the wondrous works that have proclaimed My divine and resistless power are withdrawn, or that the potency of My will and purpose hath been deterred from directing the destinies of mankind? If it be not so, wherefore, then, have ye striven to prevent the deathless Beauty of My sacred and gracious Countenance from being unveiled to men’s eyes? Why have ye struggled to hinder the Manifestation of the Almighty and All-Glorious Being from shedding the radiance of His Revelation upon the earth? Were ye to be fair in your judgment, ye would readily recognize how the realities of all created things are inebriated with the joy of this new and wondrous Revelation, how all the atoms of the earth have been illuminated through the brightness of its glory. Vain and wretched is that which ye have imagined and still imagine!

Translation Notes

نه
nh n-h-y

literal: end; ended; utmost

SE rendered اراده‌ام (irádh‌ám)از (iz)عالميان (ʿálmíán)ممنوع (mmnúʿ)گشته (gshth)نه (nh)چنين (chnín)دانسته‌ايد (dánsth‌áyd)چرا (chrá)جمال (jmál)عزّ (ʿzz) as “of, from, mankind, deterred, have been, Think ye, wherefore, Beauty, gracious”

end 16% forbidden 12% ended 12% infinite 12% highest 12% forbiddeth 8% most 8% utmost 8% last 8% unnumbered 4%
چنين
chnín ch-n-n

literal: likewise; as; just as

SE rendered از (iz)عالميان (ʿálmíán)ممنوع (mmnúʿ)گشته (gshth)نه (nh)چنين (chnín)دانسته‌ايد (dánsth‌áyd)چرا (chrá)جمال (jmál)عزّ (ʿzz)قدس (qds) as “from, mankind, deterred, have been, Think ye, wherefore, Beauty, gracious, sacred”

also 50% such 50%
چرا
chrá ch-r-ʾ “why”

literal: why

3 occurrences in corpus

ابها
ibhá b-h-w

literal: glory; most glorious; most-glorious

SE rendered منع (mnʿ)نموده‌ايد (nmúdh‌áyd)مظهر (mẓhr)ذات (dhát)عزّ (ʿzz)ابها (ibhá)از (iz)ظهور (ẓhúr) as “prevent, striven to, Manifestation, Being, Almighty and All-Glorious, shedding, Revelation”

سمآء
smáʾ s-m-w

literal: heaven

SE rendered ذات (dhát)عزّ (ʿzz)ابها (ibhá)از (iz)ظهور (ẓhúr)سمآء (smáʾ)قدس (qds)ابقاء (ibqáʾ)ممنوع (mmnúʿ)داشته‌ايد (dáshth‌áyd) as “Being, Almighty and All-Glorious, shedding, Revelation, hinder, hath”

ابقاء
ibqáʾ b-q-y

literal: remaining; permanence; remain

SE rendered از (iz)ظهور (ẓhúr)سمآء (smáʾ)قدس (qds)ابقاء (ibqáʾ)ممنوع (mmnúʿ)داشته‌ايد (dáshth‌áyd)چشم (chshm)انصاف (inṣáf) as “shedding, Revelation, hinder, hath, eyes, fair”

باده
bádh b-d-h

literal: wine

SE rendered جميع (jmíʿ)حقايق (ḥqáyq)ممکنات (mmknát)از (iz)باده (bádh)جديده (jdídh)بديعه (bdíʿh)سرمست (srmst)بينيد (bíníd) as “all, realities, created things, from, new, wondrous, inebriated, recognize”

2 occurrences in corpus

خواهيد
khúáhíd kh-w-h

literal: will; to want/will

SE rendered اشراق (ishráq)انوارش (inúársh)مشرق (mshrq)منوّر (mnúnr)خواهيد (khúáhíd)يافت (yáft)فبئس (fbʾs)ظننتم (ẓnntm)ساء (sáʾ) as “radiance, glory, illuminated, imagined, wretched”

will 33% gather 33% shall 33%
يافت
yáft y-f-t

literal: found

SE rendered انوارش (inúársh)مشرق (mshrq)منوّر (mnúnr)خواهيد (khúáhíd)يافت (yáft)فبئس (fbʾs)ظننتم (ẓnntm)ساء (sáʾ) as “glory, illuminated, imagined, wretched”

entered 25% found 25% last 25% have 25%
فبئس
fbʾs b-ʾ-s

literal: wretched

SE rendered انوارش (inúársh)مشرق (mshrq)منوّر (mnúnr)خواهيد (khúáhíd)يافت (yáft)فبئس (fbʾs)ظننتم (ẓnntm)ساء (sáʾ) as “glory, illuminated, imagined, wretched”

wretched 22% ills 22% misery 11% have 11% adversity 11% violence 11% troubles 11%

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