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Gleanings — §83

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 83 of 729.

Source (Arabic)

ولا يعرفون قد وقعت الواقعة وهم عنها يفرّون وجآئت الحَاقَّة وهم عنها مُعرضون هذا يوم يهرب فيه كلّ مرءٍ من نفسه وكيف ذوي القُربى لو أنتم تفقهون قل تاللّه قد نفخ في الصّور ونرى النّاس هم منصعقون وصاح الصّآئح ونادى المنادِ المُلك للّه المقتدر المهيمن القيّوم

Shoghi Effendi Translation

The thing that must come hath come suddenly; behold how they flee from it! The inevitable hath come to pass; witness how they have cast it behind their backs! This is the Day whereon every man will fly from himself, how much more from his kindred, could ye but perceive it. Say: By God! The blast hath been blown on the trumpet, and lo, mankind hath swooned away before us! The Herald hath cried out, and the Summoner raised His voice saying: “The Kingdom is God’s, the Most Powerful, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.”

Translation Notes

ولا
w-l-y

literal: no; not; negation particle

يعرفون
ʿ-r-f

literal: to confess; to acknowledge; to recognize

قد
q-d → “We have been”

literal: verily; indeed; certainly (particle of emphasis)

وقعت
w-q-ʿ → “come” Distinctive

literal: to fall, to occur, to happen; incident, event

وهم
w-h-m → “vain imaginings”

literal: to imagine, suppose; fancy, idle imagination

عنها
ʿ-n-n → “from”

literal: from; about; concerning; away from

يفرّون
f-r-r → “flee”

literal: to flee, escape, run away

وجآئت
j-y-ʾ → “hath come”

literal: zenith; apex; summit; height

الحَاقَّة
ḥ-q-q → “inevitable”

literal: truth; right; that which is true or just

مُعرضون
ʿ-r-ḍ → “have cast”

literal: to turn away; to avert; to abstain; heedless

هذا
h-dh-ʾ → “This is”

literal: this; that

يوم
y-w-m → “Day”

literal: day; age; period; era; a day

يهرب
h-r-b → “flee” Distinctive

literal: to flee; to escape

فيه
f-y → “whereon”

literal: alas; woe; oh

كلّ
k-l-l → “every”

literal: for us; to us

مرءٍ
m-r-ʾ → “man”

literal: me; to me (Persian object pronoun); man; person; woman; wife

من
m-n → “from”

literal: from; out of; than (preposition and particle)

نفسه
n-f-s → “himself”

literal: self; soul; psyche; person; essence

وكيف
k-y-f → “how much more”

literal: how; in what manner

ذوي
dh-w-y

literal: possessor of; one having; those having

القُربى
q-r-b → “his kindred”

literal: place of sacrifice; altar

لو
l-w → “If”

literal: if; would that; O that

أنتم
n-t-m

literal: you

تفقهون
f-q-h → “doctors” Distinctive

literal: world; universe; the worlds

قل
q-w-l → “Say”

literal: heart; to turn; to overturn

تاللّه
ʾ-l-h → “By God”

literal: God; Allah; deity; Divinity; divine nature; godhood

نفخ
n-f-kh → “breathe”

literal: to blow; to breathe; to inflate; to sound (a trumpet)

الصّور
ṣ-w-r → “the trumpet”

literal: to imagine; to conceive; to suppose

ونرى
r-ʾ-y → “Thou seest”

literal: to see; to perceive; to look; to see, to observe, to behold; to view; vision; dream; sight; ل is prefix; verb تری (you see) is from ر-ا-ي

النّاس
n-ʾ-s

literal: companionship; fellowship; familiarity; to keep company

هم
h-m-m

literal: them (pronoun + object marker)

منصعقون
ṣ-ʿ-q

literal: to be thunderstruck; to be dumbfounded; to swoon

وصاح
ṣ-y-ḥ → “cry out” Distinctive

literal: to cry out; to shout; to clamor; cry, shout, outcry

ونادى
n-d-y → “Summoner raised His voice”

literal: call; voice; cry; summons; to call; to proclaim; to cry out; to summon

المنادِ
n-d-w → “Voice” Distinctive

literal: call; caller; call, voice

المُلك
m-l-k → ““The Kingdom”

literal: kingdom; dominion; realm; sovereignty; possessions; property; ownership

المقتدر
q-d-r → “Most Powerful”

literal: power; might; decree; measure; worth

المهيمن
h-m-n → “Help in Peril”

literal: the Protector; the Overseer; the Guardian

القيّوم
q-w-m → “the Self-Subsisting.””

literal: rising; standing; uprising; resurrection

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