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Kitáb-i-Íqán — §47

Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 47 of 291.

Source (Persian)

و ديگر زحمت و مرارت آن طلعات را ملاحظه نما که بی ناصر و معين ظاهری در مقابل جميع اهل ارض اقامه حدود اللّه می فرمايند. با آن همه ايذاء که بر آن وجود های مبارکه لطيفهرقيقه وارد می شود و با کمال قدرت صبر می فرمايند و با نهايت غلبه تحمّل می نمايند.

Shoghi Effendi Translation

Moreover, consider the hardships and the bitterness of the lives of those Revealers of the divine Beauty. Reflect, how single-handed and alone they faced the world and all its peoples, and promulgated the Law of God! No matter how severe the persecutions inflicted upon those holy, those precious, and tender Souls, they still remained, in the plenitude of their power, patient, and, despite their ascendancy, they suffered and endured.

Translation Notes

ديگر
d-g-r

literal: home; place; land; abode

زحمت
z-ḥ-m → “labor”

literal: hardship; toil; labor; trouble; suffering

مرارت
m-r-r → “At one time” Distinctive

literal: to pass; to pass by; to go

آن
ʾ-n → “to”

literal: that; those; he; she; it

طلعات
ṭ-l-ʿ → “Dayspring” Distinctive

literal: rising; appearance; countenance; manifestation

را
r-ʾ-ʾ

literal: object marker; object-marker; to

ملاحظه
l-ḥ-ẓ → “consider”

literal: assembly; multitude; chiefs; to fill; people of rank; fullness, assembly

نما
n-m-ʾ → “Reflect” Distinctive

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

که
k-h

literal: that; who; who, that

بی
b-y → “single-handed and alone”

literal: without; is; to

ناصر
n-ṣ-r

literal: aid, help, succor, victory, support

معين
ʿ-y-n

literal: eye; fountain; spring; essence

ظاهری
ẓ-h-r

literal: manifestation; appearance; to appear; to manifest; to display; to reveal; ظهور here means ‘backs’ (plural of ظهر), different semantic use than manifestation

در
d-r-r

literal: in; in, at; radiant

مقابل
q-b-l → “before”

literal: group; company; tribe; sort; kind

جميع
j-m-ʿ → “all”

literal: to gather; to assemble; group; number

اهل
ʾ-h-l → “peoples”

literal: people; inhabitants; family; kin; worthy; deserving; my family; my people; my kin

ارض
ʾ-r-ḍ → “world” Distinctive

literal: earth; land; ground; country

اقامه
q-w-m → “people” Distinctive

literal: rising; standing; uprising; resurrection

حدود
ḥ-d-d → “limitations”

literal: iron; sharp, keen, acute

اللّه
ʾ-l-h → “God”

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

می
m-y-y

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

فرمايند
f-r-m → “saith” Distinctive

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

با
b-ʾ-ʾ

literal: to; with; by

همه
h-m-h

literal: them (pronoun + object marker)

ايذاء
ʾ-dh-y → “woes”

literal: harm; hurt; injury; persecution; torment

بر
b-r-r → “upon”

literal: by, with, through (preposition)

وجود
w-j-d → “Souls” Distinctive

literal: to find; to discover; to obtain

های
null

literal: and; that; in

مبارکه
b-r-k → “holy”

literal: blessed; auspicious; fruitful; blest; blessed word

لطيفهرقيقه
l-ṭ-ف + ر-q-q → “precious, and tender”

literal: delicate and tender

وارد
w-r-d → “inflicted”

literal: to enter, to come, to befall, to arrive

شود
sh-w-d

literal: to come; to go; to arrive; came

کمال
k-m-l → “utmost”

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

قدرت
q-d-r → “power”

literal: power; might; decree; measure; worth

صبر
ṣ-b-r → “patient”

literal: patience; forbearance; endurance; to be patient

نهايت
n-h-y → “ascendancy” Distinctive

literal: end, limit, utmost, extreme; final; the end, limit, utmost bound; Lote-Tree beyond which there is no passing; end; limit; terminus

غلبه
gh-l-b → “ascendancy”

literal: to overcome, overpower, vanquish, prevail

تحمّل
ḥ-m-l → “suffered and endured”

literal: to bear; to endure; to carry; to tolerate

Source: Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán

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