Prayers and Meditations — §163
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 163 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ المُقْتَدِرُ القَدِيرُ وَبِالإِجابَةِ جَدِيرٌ، لا إِلهَ إِلاَّ أَنْتَ العَلِيمُ الخَبِيرُ.
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Thou, in truth, art the God of strength and power, Who art meet to answer them that pray Thee. There is no God save Thee, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
Translation Notes
This form usually rendered as “almighty”, “powerful”, “potent” (212 occurrences)
SE expanded to “strength and power”
almighty 31% powerful 20% potent 16% most 10% all-powerful 9% omnipotent 4% god 4% lord 3% power 2% strength 1%
SE expanded to “meet to answer them”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §61: is ready to answerfire-tabletFire §4: AnswerergleaningsGWB §594: an answererkitab-i-iqanKIQ §245: What answerprayers-and-meditationsP&M §289: respondedtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §53: hearkenedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §77: not replygleaningsGWB §39: the answer
2 occurrences in corpus
all-knowing 73% omniscient 8% knower 5% knoweth 3% god 3% aware 2% understanding 2% discerning 2% himself 2% all-wise 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §118: knowledgefire-tabletFire §49: all the worldsgleaningsGWB §253: Know yekitab-i-iqanKIQ §208: evidencesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §322: any of Thy creaturestablet-of-ahmadAhmad §17: of all the worldstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §13: we have taught theethe-hidden-wordsHW §57: is My knowledge
all-informed 47% informed 12% all-knowing 12% omniscient 6% discernment 6% who 6% all-wise.” 6% all-wise 6%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §245: newsgleaningsGWB §713: warnedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §272: been foretoldprayers-and-meditationsP&M §102: Thou didst announcethe-hidden-wordsHW §142: I was unawareepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §263: “I announcegleaningsGWB §39: prophecieskitab-i-iqanKIQ §57: the warning
