Prayers and Meditations — §12
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 12 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
وَإِنَّكَ أَنْتَ المُقْتَدِرُ العَزِيزُ المَنَّانُ، لا إِلهَ إِلاَّ أَنْتَ المَلِكَ العَزِيزُ العَلِيمُ.
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Thou art the God of power, of glory and bounty. No God is there beside Thee, the Supreme Ruler, the All-Glorious, the Omniscient.
Translation Notes
This form usually rendered as “almighty”, “powerful”, “potent” (266 occurrences)
SE expanded to “God of power”
almighty 34% powerful 16% potent 16% most 10% all-powerful 10% lord 5% god 3% omnipotent 3% power 3% strength 2%
This form usually rendered as “all-glorious”, “almighty”, “mighty” (241 occurrences)
all-glorious 44% almighty 23% mighty 13% gracious 8% all-powerful 3% glorious 2% glory 2% god 2% most 1% exalted 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §12: the MightygleaningsGWB §387: His mightkitab-i-iqanKIQ §264: dignitariesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §23: By Thy mighttablet-of-ahmadAhmad §4: Incomparablethe-hidden-wordsHW §125: in your glorywill-and-testamentW&T §4: endearedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §150: precious in my estimation
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §193: BeneficentgleaningsGWB §556: thekitab-i-iqanKIQ §155: to show favourprayers-and-meditationsP&M §15: the Beneficenttablet-of-ahmadAhmad §15: We bestowedwill-and-testamentW&T §27: hath graciously favouredkitab-i-iqanKIQ §92: mannaprayers-and-meditationsP&M §672: the Most Bountiful
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §134: with Godfire-tabletFire §41: after GodgleaningsGWB §684: God is My witness!kitab-i-ahdAhd §10: the divine Testatorkitab-i-iqanKIQ §147: God,’prayers-and-meditationsP&M §833: before Thy Godheadtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §50: By the Lordthe-hidden-wordsHW §147: celestial
This form usually rendered as “kingdom”, “king”, “sovereign” (118 occurrences)
SE expanded to “the Supreme Ruler”
kingdom 24% king 23% sovereign 12% dominion 8% kingdoms 8% world 7% sovereignty 5% angels 4% earth 4% all-possessing 4%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §94: the worldgleaningsGWB §636: of the kingskitab-i-iqanKIQ §12: the peoples and kindreds of the earthprayers-and-meditationsP&M §140: and the kingdomtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §15: the worldsthe-hidden-wordsHW §2: that thine may bewill-and-testamentW&T §13: every landepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §173: of the kingdom
all-knowing 73% omniscient 9% all-wise 5% knower 4% god 3% knowing 2% knoweth 2% aware 1% understanding 1% who 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §189: did ye but know itfire-tabletFire §49: all the worldsgleaningsGWB §150: learned menkitab-i-ahdAhd §2: recognizedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §64: showethprayers-and-meditationsP&M §227: Thy hidden wisdomtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §17: of all the worldstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §13: which we have taught
