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Kitáb-i-Íqán — §247

Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 247 of 291.

Source (Persian)

و امّا در اين ظهور اظهر و سلطنت عظمی جمعی از علمای راشدين و فضلای کاملين و فقهای بالغين از کأس قرب و وصال مرزوق شدند و به عنايت عظمی فائز گشتند و از کون و امکان در سبيل جانان گذشتند. بعضی از اسامی آنها ذکر می شود که شايد سبب استقامت انفس مضطربه و نفوس غير مطمئنّه شود.

Shoghi Effendi Translation

In this most resplendent Dispensation, however, this most mighty Sovereignty, a number of illumined divines, of men of consummate learning, of doctors of mature wisdom, have attained unto His Court, drunk the cup of His divine Presence, and been invested with the honour of His most excellent favour. They have renounced, for the sake of the Beloved, the world and all that is therein. We will mention the names of some of them, that perchance it may strengthen the faint-hearted, and encourage the timorous.

Translation Notes

امّا
ʾ-m-m → “nations” Distinctive

literal: mother; to lead; to head; matter; affair; people; nation; community; female servant; handmaiden; umma

در
d-r-r → “In”

literal: in; in, at; radiant

اين
ʾ-y-n → “this”

literal: this; these

ظهور
ẓ-h-r → “Dispensation” Distinctive

literal: manifestation; appearance; to appear; to manifest

سلطنت
s-l-ṭ → “Sovereignty”

literal: dominion; authority; power; sovereignty; control

عظمی
ʿ-ẓ-m → “most mighty”

literal: greatest; supreme; mightiest

جمعی
j-m-ʿ → “number”

literal: to gather; to assemble; group; number

از
ʾ-z → “of”

literal: from

علمای
ʿ-l-m → “divines”

literal: world; universe; the worlds

راشدين
r-sh-d → “illumined”

literal: truthfulness; righteousness; right guidance

فضلای
f-ḍ-l → “grace” Distinctive

literal: grace; bounty; generosity; excellence

کاملين
k-m-l → “men of consummate learning”

literal: desire; appetite; lust; will; heap; hill; mound

فقهای
f-q-h → “doctors of mature wisdom”

literal: to understand; to comprehend; insight; jurisprudence

بالغين
b-l-gh → “teach” Distinctive

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

کأس
k-ʾ-s → “cup”

literal: cup; chalice; goblet

قرب
q-r-b → “Presence”

literal: place of sacrifice; altar

وصال
w-ṣ-l → “attained unto His Court”

literal: reunion; union; meeting; connection

مرزوق
r-z-q → “attained unto His Court”

literal: sustenance; provision; to grant livelihood

شدند
sh-d → “been” Distinctive

literal: to not become; to not be

به
b-h

literal: by it; by him; with it

عنايت
ʿ-n-y → “loving-kindness”

literal: bounty; loving-kindness; grace; divine care; attention

فائز
f-w-z

literal: benefit, profit, advantage; usefulness; bounty; effusion; grace

گشتند
g-sh-t

literal: to become; to turn; to be

کون
k-w-n → “be”

literal: to do; to make; to perform; to be; was

امکان
m-k-n

literal: establishment; confirmation; empowerment; firm settlement

سبيل
s-b-l → “for the sake of” Distinctive

literal: path; way; road; cause; means

جانان
j-ʾ-n → “Beloved”

literal: garden; paradise; heaven

گذشتند.
g-dh-r → “renounced”

literal: religion; creed; doctrine; belief; sect

بعضی
b-ʿ-ḍ → “some of them”

literal: part; some; portion

اسامی
s-m-w → “names”

literal: heaven; sky

آنها
null

literal: that, it; to be; indeed

ذکر
dh-k-r → “mention”

literal: remembrance; mention; memory; invocation; reminders; commemorations

می
m-y-y

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

شود
sh-w-d

literal: to not become; to not be

که
k-h → “that”

literal: that; who; who, that

شايد
sh-y-d → “perchance”

literal: perhaps, perchance, haply, maybe, possibly; to become; to be; to happen; to occur

سبب
s-b-b → “cause”

literal: cause; reason; means; instrument

استقامت
q-w-m → “strengthen” Distinctive

literal: sickness; disease; ailment

مضطربه
ḍ-r-b → “tremble”

literal: to be troubled, shaken, agitated; to tremble

نفوس
n-f-s → “the”

literal: self; soul; psyche; person; essence

غير
gh-y-r

literal: without; besides; other than; except; other; different

مطمئنّه
ṭ-m-n → “confidence” Distinctive

literal: to be at peace; to be reassured; to settle down

Source: Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán

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