Prayers and Meditations — §226

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 226 of 858.

Source (Arabic)

الْعَزِيْزُ الْوَهَّابُ، أَيْ رَبِّ لا تَجْعَلْ هذا الْصَّوْمَ آخِرَ صَوْمِنا وَآخِرَ عَهْدِنا ثُمَّ اقْبَلْ ما عَمِلْناهُ فِي حُبِّكَ وَرِضائِكَ وَما تُرِكَ عَنَّا بِما غَلَبَتْ عَلَيْنا شُئُوناتُ النَّفْسِ وَالْهَوی، ثُمَّ اسْتَقِمْنا عَلَى حُبِّكَ وَرِضائِكَ ثُمَّ احْفَظْنا مِنْ شَرِّ الَّذِيْنَ هُمْ كَفَرُوا بِكَ وَبِآياتِكَ الْكُبْرى وَإِنَّكَ أَنْتَ رَبُّ الآخِرَةِ وَالأُوْلى لا إِلهَ إِلاَّ أَنْتَ الْعَلِيُّ

Shoghi Effendi Translation

Do not bring our fasts to an end with this fast, O my Lord, nor the covenants Thou hast made with this covenant. Do Thou accept all that we have done for love of Thee, and for the sake of Thy pleasure, and all that we have left undone as a result of our subjection to our evil and corrupt desires. Enable us, then, to cleave steadfastly to Thy love and Thy good pleasure, and preserve us from the mischief of such as have denied Thee and repudiated Thy most resplendent signs. Thou art, in truth, the Lord of this world and of the next. No God is there beside Thee, the Exalted, the Most High.

Translation Notes

الْعَزِيْزُ

ʿ-z-z

literal: glory; might; honor; dignity; power; majesty

الْوَهَّابُ،

w-h-b

literal: gift; grant; bestowal

أَيْ

ʾ-y-y → “O”

literal: O; vocative particle; oh (vocative particle)

رَبِّ

r-b-b → “my Lord”

literal: love; affection

لا

l-ʾ → “or”

literal: no; not; negation particle

تَجْعَلْ

j-ʿ-l → “made” Distinctive

literal: to make; to cause; to render; to appoint

هذا

h-dh-ʾ → “with this”

literal: this; that

الْصَّوْمَ

ṣ-w-m → “fast”

literal: fasting; to abstain from food

آخِرَ

ʾ-kh-r → “end”

literal: the hereafter, the next life, the world to come; last, latter; the next life, the hereafter; delay; postponement

عَهْدِنا

ʿ-h-d → “covenants”

literal: covenant; testament; promise; command

ثُمَّ

th-m-m → “then”

literal: then; thereafter; next; moreover

اقْبَلْ

q-b-l → “Thou accept” Distinctive

literal: group; company; tribe; sort; kind

ما

m-ʾ → “that”

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

عَمِلْناهُ

ʿ-m-l → “we have done”

literal: to work; to act; to do; to perform

فِي

f-y → “for love of Thee” Distinctive

literal: in; in-it; in it

حُبِّكَ

ḥ-b-b → “Thy love”

literal: love; beloved; beloved ones

وَرِضائِكَ

r-ḍ-y → “Thy pleasure”

literal: good-pleasure, consent, satisfaction; satisfaction; pleasure; approval; contentment

تُرِكَ

t-r-k → “renounce”

literal: to leave; to abandon; to forsake

عَنَّا

ʿ-n

literal: from; about; concerning; away from

غَلَبَتْ

gh-l-b → “ascendancy” Distinctive

literal: to overcome, overpower, vanquish, prevail

عَلَيْنا

ʿ-l-y

literal: exalted; highest; supreme; most high; upon you; on; over; Ali (name); upon

شُئُوناتُ

sh-ʾ-n → “in such wise” Distinctive

literal: affair; concern; matter; aspect; quality; state; affairs; matters; conditions; circumstances; affair, matter, station, rank, dignity; station; rank; importance; matter, affair, concern, dignity, rank

النَّفْسِ

n-f-s → “our evil” Distinctive

literal: self; soul; psyche; person; essence

وَالْهَوی،

h-w-y → “and corrupt desires”

literal: desire; vain desire; inclination; passion; whim; realm; region

اسْتَقِمْنا

q-w-m → “to cleave steadfastly”

literal: rising; standing; uprising; resurrection

عَلَى

ʿ-l-w → “to”

literal: highest; most high; supreme

احْفَظْنا

ḥ-f-ẓ → “preserve us”

literal: guardian; preserver; keeper

مِنْ

m-n → “from”

literal: from; out of; than (preposition and particle)

شَرِّ

sh-r-r → “mischief”

literal: evil; harm; wickedness

الَّذِيْنَ

l-dh-y → “of such as” Distinctive

literal: those who; the ones who (relative pronoun)

هُمْ

h-m-m

literal: them (pronoun + object marker)

كَفَرُوا

k-f-r → “have denied” Distinctive

literal: to disbelieve, reject; unbelief, ingratitude; to deny, to disbelieve, to reject

وَبِآياتِكَ

ʾ-y-y → “Thy most resplendent signs”

literal: O; vocative particle; oh (vocative particle)

الْكُبْرى

k-b-r

literal: great; grand; mighty; large; greatness; majesty; sovereignty; arrogance

وَإِنَّكَ

ʾ-n-n → “that” Distinctive

literal: that; those; he; she; it

أَنْتَ

ʾ-n-t → “Thou”

literal: you (masculine singular)

الآخِرَةِ

ʾ-kh-r → “the next”

literal: the hereafter, the next life, the world to come; last, latter; the next life, the hereafter; delay; postponement

وَالأُوْلى

ʾ-w-l → “this world”

literal: first; beginning; at first; the first; former; possessors of; those who have; masters of

إِلهَ

ʾ-l-h → “God”

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

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