Kitáb-i-Íqán — §240
Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 240 of 291.
Source (Persian)
چنانچه اليوم مشاهده می کنيد چه سخن های لغو که به آن جوهر بقا گفتهاند و چه نسبت ها و خطاها که به آن منبع و معدن عصمت دادهاند. با اينکه در کتاب الهی و لوح قدس صمدانی در جميع اوراق و کلمات، انذار فرموده مکذّبين و معرضين آيات منزله را و بشارت فرموده مقبلين آن را، با وجود اين چقدر اعتراضات که بر آيات منزله از سماوات قدسيّه بدعيّه نمودهاند. و حال آنکه چشم امکان چنين فضلی نديده و قوّه سمع اکوان چنين عنايتی نشنيده که آيات به مثابه غيث نيسانی از غمام رحمت رحمانی جاری و نازل شود. چه که انبيای اولوالعزم که عظمت قدر و رفعت مقامشان چون شمس واضح و لائح است مفتخر شدند هر کدام به کتابی که در دست هست و مشاهده شده وآيات آن احصا گشته و از اين غمام رحمت رحمانی اين قدر نازل شده که هنوز احدی احصا ننموده. چنانچه بيست مجلّد الآن به دست می آيد و چه مقدار که هنوز به دست نيامده و چه مقدار هم که تاراج شده و به دست مشرکين افتاده و معلوم نيست چه کردهاند.
Shoghi Effendi Translation
In like manner, thou observest in this day with what vile imputations they have assailed that Gem of Immortality, and what unspeakable transgressions they have heaped upon Him Who is the Source of purity. Although God hath throughout His Book and in His holy and immortal Tablet warned them that deny and repudiate the revealed verses, and hath announced His grace unto them that accept them, yet behold the unnumbered cavils they raised against those verses which have been sent down from the new heaven of God’s eternal holiness! This, notwithstanding the fact that no eye hath beheld so great an outpouring of bounty, nor hath any ear heard of such a revelation of lovingkindness. Such bounty and revelation have been made manifest, that the revealed verses seemed as vernal showers raining from the clouds of the mercy of the All-Bountiful. The Prophets “endowed with constancy,” whose loftiness and glory shine as the sun, were each honoured with a Book which all have seen, and the verses of which have been duly ascertained. Whereas the verses which have rained from this Cloud of divine mercy have been so abundant that none hath yet been able to estimate their number. A score of volumes are now available. How many still remain beyond our reach! How many have been plundered and have fallen into the hands of the enemy, the fate of which none knoweth.
Translation Notes
بقا
literal: remaining; everlasting; eternal; immortal; permanence; duration; continuance
مکذّبين
literal: denial; belying; falsification; rejection; liar; lying; false
آيات
literal: verse; sign; miracle; proof; sign, verse, miracle, token, indication; ayah; he; him; it
امکان
literal: establishment; confirmation; empowerment; firm settlement; place; possibility; being (negated as ‘non-being’)
عنايتی
literal: to concern; to mean; to turn away from; bounty; loving-kindness; grace; divine care; attention; meaning; significance; inner sense
رحمت
literal: merciful, compassionate; pertaining to divine mercy
اولوالعزم
literal: resolution; possessors of constancy; determination, constancy
