Prayers and Meditations — §179
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 179 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
لَكَ الْحَمْدُ يا إِلهِي بِما جَعَلْتَ النَّيْرُوزَ عِيْدًا لِلَّذِينَ صامُوا فِيْ حُبِّكَ وَكَفُّوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ عَمَّا يَكرَهُهُ رِضائُكَ، أَيْ رَبِّ اجْعَلْهُمْ
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Praised be Thou, O my God, that Thou hast ordained Naw-Rúz as a festival unto those who have observed the Fast for love of Thee and abstained from all that is abhorrent unto Thee. Grant, O my Lord, that the fire of Thy love and the heat produced by the Fast enjoined by Thee may inflame them in Thy Cause, and make them to be occupied with Thy praise and with remembrance of Thee.
Translation Notes
5 occurrences in corpus
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §165: praisedgleaningsGWB §721: All-Praisekitab-i-iqanKIQ §149: His praise”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §606: glory be to Theetablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: ‘Render thankswill-and-testamentW&T §5: the Lordepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: Praised be GodgleaningsGWB §610: Render thanks
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §130: hath made theefire-tabletFire §44: We have madegleaningsGWB §51: thou hast been madekitab-i-iqanKIQ §199: imagesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §361: are deprivedthe-hidden-wordsHW §65: clothewill-and-testamentW&T §36: and grant thatepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §81: set thee king
4 occurrences in corpus
This form usually rendered as “doubters”, “dependents”, “generations” (13 occurrences)
SE expanded to “unto those who”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §149: Our loved onesfire-tabletFire §7: of Thy lovegleaningsGWB §435: loving-kindnesskitab-i-iqanKIQ §214: His loving mentionprayers-and-meditationsP&M §351: of them thattablet-of-carmelCarmel §1: a Daytablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §40: the Beloved Onethe-hidden-wordsHW §55: thine heart be set
This form usually rendered as “abstained” (1 occurrences)
SE rendered صامُوا (ṣámúá), حُبِّكَ (ḥubbik), وَكَفُّوا (wakaffúá), أَنْفُسَهُمْ (ʾanfusahum), يَكرَهُهُ (yakrahuh), رِضائُكَ، (riḍáʾuka،) as “have observed, love, abstained, abhorrent, unto Thee”
own 41% themselves 31% souls 10% proper 3% themselves.” 3% selves 3% uttered 3% hearts 3% within 3% lives 3%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §90: your own selvesgleaningsGWB §579: the dutykitab-i-ahdAhd §8: thosekitab-i-iqanKIQ §105: Himself”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §106: for Whose saketablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §52: within herselfthe-hidden-wordsHW §71: for My Selfwill-and-testamentW&T §58: To none
This form usually rendered as “may”, “thou”, “repugnant” (9 occurrences)
gleaningsGWB §460: abhorprayers-and-meditationsP&M §259: illsgleaningsGWB §645: may be averseprayers-and-meditationsP&M §620: may be abhorrent unto Theeprayers-and-meditationsP&M §217: the evilsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §362: Thou abhorrestprayers-and-meditationsP&M §617: the extreme of adversityprayers-and-meditationsP&M §179: abhorrent
رِضائُكَ،
literal: pleasure; pleasure/satisfaction; pleasure, satisfaction
This form usually rendered as “pleasure”, “good”, “good-pleasure” (55 occurrences)
pleasure 44% good 18% good-pleasure 8% will 8% thee 8% unto 5% please 3% pleasure!” 3% sake 3% pleasure’s 3%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §8: contentfire-tabletFire §48: Thy pleasuregleaningsGWB §656: Thy Willkitab-i-iqanKIQ §146: fromprayers-and-meditationsP&M §226: Thy good pleasurethe-hidden-wordsHW §71: Be then contentwill-and-testamentW&T §8: submitted to His Willepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §122: contentment
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §168: DivinitygleaningsGWB §549: of Truthkitab-i-iqanKIQ §258: the Almightyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §221: mytablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §11: the All-Gloriousthe-hidden-wordsHW §25: of thy Godwill-and-testamentW&T §47: Oepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §168: Godhead
