Kitáb-i-Íqán — §237
Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 237 of 291.
Source (Persian)
چنانچه اهل فرقان را می بينی که چگونه به مثل امم قبل به ذکر خاتم النّبيّين محتجب گشتهاند، با اينکه خود مقرّند بر اينکه "ما يَعْلَمُ تَأوِيلَهُ إلّا اللّهُ وَالرّاسِخُونَ فِی العِلمِ." بعد که راسخ در علوم و امّها ونفسها و ذاتها و جوهرها بيان می فرمايد که قدری مخالف هوای ايشان واقع می شود اين است که می شنوی که چه می گويند و چه می کنند. و نيست اينها مگر از رؤسای ناس در دين يعنی آنهائی که الهی بجز هوی اخذ نکردهاند و بغيرذهب مذهبی نيافتهاند و به حجبات علم محتجب گشتهاند و به ضلالت آن گمراه شدهاند. چنانچه به تصريح تمام ربّ الانام می فرمايد : اَفَرَاَيْتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ إلهَهُ هوَاهُ و اَضَلَّهُ اللّهُ عَلی عِلْمٍ و خَتَمَ عَلی سَمْعِهِ و قَلْبِهِ و جَعَلَ عَلی بَصَرِهِ غِشَاوَةً فَمَنْ يَهْدِيهِ مِنْ بَعْدِ اللّهِ اَفَلا تَذَکَّرُونَ." يعنی آيا ديدی آن غافل را که گرفت خدای خود خواهش های نفس خود را و اضلال کرد خدا او را بر علمی، و مهر نهاد بر گوش و دلش و گردانيد بر چشمش پرده، پس که هدايت می کند او را از بعد خدا؟
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Even as thou dost witness how the people of the Qur’án, like unto the people of old, have allowed the words “Seal of the Prophets” to veil their eyes. And yet, they themselves testify to this verse: “None knoweth the interpretation thereof but God and they that are well-grounded in knowledge.” And when He Who is well-grounded in all knowledge, He Who is the Mother, the Soul, the Secret, and the Essence thereof, revealeth that which is the least contrary to their desire, they bitterly oppose Him and shamelessly deny Him. These thou hast already heard and witnessed. Such deeds and words have been solely instigated by leaders of religion, they that worship no God but their own desire, who bear allegiance to naught but gold, who are wrapt in the densest veils of learning, and who, enmeshed by its obscurities, are lost in the wilds of error. Even as the Lord of being hath explicitly declared: “What thinkest thou? He who hath made a God of his passions, and whom God causeth to err through a knowledge, and whose ears and whose heart He hath sealed up, and over whose sight He hath cast a veil—who, after his rejection by God, shall guide such a one? Will ye not then be warned?”
Translation Notes
بينی
literal: building, structure, edifice; to build, construct; structure, edifice
بيان
literal: building, structure, edifice; to build, construct; structure, edifice
او
literal: he; it (third person pronoun); refuge; shelter; dwelling place; abode; lamentation, cry, woe; melody, song
