Gleanings — §703

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 703 of 729.

Source (Arabic)

فانظروا في النّاس وقلّة عقولهم يطلبون ما يضرّهم ويتركون ما ينفعهم أَلَا إنّهم من الهآئمين إنّا نرى بعض النّاس أرادوا الحرّيّة ويفتخرون بها أولئك في جهل مبين

Shoghi Effendi Translation

Consider the pettiness of men’s minds. They ask for that which injureth them, and cast away the thing that profiteth them. They are, indeed, of those that are far astray. We find some men desiring liberty, and priding themselves therein. Such men are in the depths of ignorance.

Translation Notes

فانظروا

fánẓrúá n-ẓ-r → “consider”

literal: look; looking

consider 33% regard 20% behold 13% “consider 7% “regard 7% look 7% keep 7% fix 7%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §184: with the eye fire-tabletFire §48: looking toward gleaningsGWB §293: Look not kitab-i-ahdAhd §3: fix his gaze upon kitab-i-iqanKIQ §88: owing to prayers-and-meditationsP&M §591: keep mine eyes directed tablet-of-ahmadAhmad §2: resplendent Beauty the-hidden-wordsHW §93: recall

النّاس

an-nás n-ʾ-s → “the pettiness of men’s minds”

literal: people; people, mankind; people/mankind

SE expanded to “the pettiness of men’s minds”

men 38% people 34% others 8% mankind 5% all 4% peoples 3% fellowmen 2% neighbor 2% men’s 1% wayward 1%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §192: men gleaningsGWB §643: the children of men kitab-i-iqanKIQ §13: men in their quest will-and-testamentW&T §34: the souls of men epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §177: people gleaningsGWB §467: of his fellowmen kitab-i-iqanKIQ §133: peoples and kindreds epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §40: of others

وقلّة

wqllh q-l-l

literal: few

SE rendered فانظروا (fánẓrúá), النّاس (an-nás), وقلّة (wqllh), عقولهم (ʿqúlhm), يطلبون (yṭlbún), يضرّهم (yḍrrhm), ويتركون (wítrkún) as “Consider, the pettiness of men’s minds, injureth, cast away”

summit 50% fewness 50%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §134: the fraction fire-tabletFire §47: fewness gleaningsGWB §509: a kitab-i-iqanKIQ §95: some mean price.”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §242: less than a moment the-hidden-wordsHW §91: smallest epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §216: less fire-tabletFire §42: independence

عقولهم

ʿqúlhm ʿ-q-l

literal: intellect; minds; understand

mind 39% understanding 19% minds 16% understand 6% judgment 3% men 3% wise 3% sane 3% conceive 3% every 3%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §60: the wise gleaningsGWB §124: conceive kitab-i-iqanKIQ §14: their limited understanding prayers-and-meditationsP&M §645: intelligence epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §240: judgment gleaningsGWB §395: the mind kitab-i-iqanKIQ §16: contemplate prayers-and-meditationsP&M §343: endued with understanding

يطلبون

yṭlbún ṭ-l-b

literal: seeking; seek; seeker

SE rendered فانظروا (fánẓrúá), النّاس (an-nás), وقلّة (wqllh), عقولهم (ʿqúlhm), يطلبون (yṭlbún), يضرّهم (yḍrrhm), ويتركون (wítrkún), ينفعهم (ynfʿhm) as “Consider, the pettiness of men’s minds, injureth, cast away, profiteth”