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Kitáb-i-Íqán — §158

Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 158 of 291.

Source (Persian)

درست در اين بيان تفکّر فرما تا نسيم خوش عرفان از مصر رحمان بوزد و جان را از بيان خوش جانان به حديقه عرفان رساند. اين بود که مردم غافل چون معنی اين بيانات بالغه کامله را ادراک نمی نمودند و جواب را به گمان خود مطابق سؤال نمی يافتند لهذا نسبت عدم علم و جنون به آن جواهر علم و عقل می دادند.

Shoghi Effendi Translation

Ponder this in thine heart, that the sweet gales of divine knowledge, blowing from the meads of mercy, may waft upon thee the fragrance of the Beloved’s utterance, and cause thy soul to attain the Ridván of understanding. As the wayward of every age have failed to fathom the deeper import of these weighty and pregnant utterances, and imagined the answer of the Prophets of God to be irrelevant to the questions they asked them, they therefore have attributed ignorance and folly to those Essences of knowledge and understanding.

Translation Notes

درست
d-r-s → “schools” Distinctive

literal: correctness; straightness; uprightness; rectitude

در
d-r-r → “in”

literal: in; in, at; radiant

اين
ʾ-y-n → “this”

literal: this; these

بيان
b-y-n → “Beloved’s utterance”

literal: to manifest; to make clear; clear, evident; in; among; between; at this moment

تفکّر
f-k-r

literal: thoughts; ideas; fancies; opinions; to think; to reflect; to contemplate

فرما
f-r-m

literal: to say; to decree; to ordain; to command

تا
t-y-y → “that”

literal: so that/until

نسيم
n-s-m → “breeze”

literal: breeze; gentle wind; fragrance

خوش
kh-w-sh → “sweet”

literal: self; own; personal

عرفان
ʿ-r-f → “knowledge”

literal: to confess; to acknowledge; to recognize

از
ʾ-z → “from”

literal: from

مصر
m-ṣ-r → “meads”

literal: matter; affair; thing

رحمان
r-ḥ-m → “mercy” Distinctive

literal: merciful, compassionate; pertaining to divine mercy

بوزد
w-z-d → “be wafted” Distinctive

literal: to blow; to waft

جان
j-ʾ-n → “soul”

literal: soul; life; spirit; self

را
r-ʾ-ʾ

literal: object marker; object-marker; to

به
b-h → “to”

literal: by it; by him; with it

حديقه
ḥ-d-q → “unto the garden”

literal: garden; gardens; garden, paradise

رساند.
r-s-n → “attain”

literal: to reach; to convey; to cause to arrive; to deliver

بود
b-w-d

literal: to be; to exist; to have been

که
k-h

literal: that; who; who, that

مردم
m-r-d → “people”

literal: rebellion; mutiny; revolt

غافل
gh-f-l

literal: heedlessness; negligence; inattention

چون
ch-w-n → “As”

literal: since; when; as

معنی
ʿ-n-y → “loving-kindness” Distinctive

literal: meaning; sense; significance

بالغه
b-l-gh → “teach” Distinctive

literal: to reach; to attain; to deliver; to proclaim

کامله
k-m-l → “utmost” Distinctive

literal: perfection; completeness; fully; with full; in complete; to complete, perfect, fulfill

ادراک
d-r-k → “fathom” Distinctive

literal: veiling; concealment

نمی
n-h-y

literal: to show, to display, to manifest, to exhibit; to manifest; to display; to show

نمودند
n-m-ود → “hath” Distinctive

literal: to show, display, exhibit; to grow, develop

جواب
j-w-b → “answer”

literal: answer, reply, response

گمان
g-m-n → “Think”

literal: supposition; opinion; conjecture; fancy; to suppose; to think

خود
kh-w-d

literal: self; himself; herself; itself; own

مطابق
ṭ-b-q → “conform”

literal: layer; stratum; to fold; to accord

سؤال
s-ʾ-l → “questions” Distinctive

literal: question; problem; issue; matter; asking; petition; request

يافتند
y-ʾ-f

literal: find; to find; found

لهذا
l-dh-ʾ → “therefore”

literal: therefore; for this reason; hence; so

نسبت
n-s-b → “attributed” Distinctive

literal: relation; relationship; connection; attribution; proportion

عدم
ʿ-d-m → “nothingness”

literal: nonexistent; void; nullified

علم
ʿ-l-m → “knowledge”

literal: world; universe; the worlds

جنون
j-n-n → “folly”

literal: garden; paradise; heaven

آن
ʾ-n → “to”

literal: that; those; he; she; it

جواهر
j-w-h-r → “Essences”

literal: jewel; essence; gem; substance

عقل
ʿ-q-l → “understanding”

literal: intellect; wise persons; to understand

می
m-y-y

literal: what; which; that which; relative pronoun; interrogative

دادند.
d-ʾ-d

literal: to give; to grant; to issue

Source: Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán

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