Prayers and Meditations — §248
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 248 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
يا مَحْبُوبِي حِينَئِذٍ قَدْ فَدَيْتُ نَفْسِي لِمَظاهِرِ نَفْسِكَ وَأَنْفَقْتُ رُوحِي لِبَدائِعِ مَطالِعِ جَمالِكَ، كأَنِّي فَدَيْتُ رُوحِي لِرُوحِكَ وَذاتِي لِذاتِكَ وَجَمالِي لِجَمالِكَ وَأَنْفَقْتُ كُلَّ ذلِكَ فِي سبِيلِكَ وَسَبِيلِ أَوْلِيائِكَ، وَلَوْ أَنَّ الجَسَدَ يَحْزُنُ عِنْدَ نُزُولِ
Shoghi Effendi Translation
By the glory of Thy might, O Thou my Well-Beloved! To have sacrificed my life for the Manifestations of Thy Self, to have offered up my soul in the path of the Revealers of Thy wondrous Beauty, is to have sacrificed my spirit for Thy Spirit, my being for Thy Being, my glory for Thy glory. It is as if I had offered up all these things for Thy sake, and for the sake of Thy loved ones.
Translation Notes
SE expanded to “O Thou my Well-Beloved”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §144: their love for Theefire-tabletFire §7: of Thy lovegleaningsGWB §610: one Belovedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §279: faithfulprayers-and-meditationsP&M §856: of my desiretablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: I longtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §40: the Beloved Onethe-hidden-wordsHW §40: if thou lovest
SE rendered مَحْبُوبِي (maḥbúbí), حِينَئِذٍ (ḥínaʾidhin), فَدَيْتُ (fadayt), نَفْسِي (nafsí) as “O Thou my Well-Beloved, To have sacrificed, my life”
SE expanded to “To have sacrificed”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §118: offered upfire-tabletFire §48: of sacrificegleaningsGWB §272: offer upkitab-i-iqanKIQ §259: sacrificedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §387: offeredwill-and-testamentW&T §3: in sacrificeepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §71: offered up for His sakefire-tabletFire §46: Sacrifice
This form usually rendered as “myself”, “soul”, “one” (224 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §101: peoplesgleaningsGWB §77: they utteredkitab-i-ahdAhd §8: thosekitab-i-iqanKIQ §28: sordid machinationsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §238: with my soultablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §52: within herselfthe-hidden-wordsHW §69: even as one soulwill-and-testamentW&T §44: of the insincere
SE expanded to “for the Manifestations”
manifestations 69% exponents 10% manifestation 6% embodiments 5% who 2% such 2% revealers 2% revelations 1% any 1% dispensations 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §103: wondrous Revelationfire-tabletFire §12: DayspringgleaningsGWB §582: lay barekitab-i-ahdAhd §3: streamed forthkitab-i-iqanKIQ §95: give vent toprayers-and-meditationsP&M §777: been unveiledtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §8: to assisttablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: Revelation—a Revelation
SE expanded to “to have offered up”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §149: generousfire-tabletFire §34: of seditiongleaningsGWB §666: hath offered upkitab-i-iqanKIQ §250: surrenderedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §106: and seditionthe-hidden-wordsHW §58: thou mayest drawwill-and-testamentW&T §36: their craftepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §132: sacrificed
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §201: to creategleaningsGWB §548: creationkitab-i-iqanKIQ §101: new and everlastingprayers-and-meditationsP&M §788: Thy wondrousthe-hidden-wordsHW §65: have createdwill-and-testamentW&T §2: most wondrousepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §191: the universegleaningsGWB §682: wondrous works
This form usually rendered as “daysprings”, “dawning-places”, “exponents” (58 occurrences)
daysprings 43% dawning-places 13% exponents 13% revealers 11% day-springs 7% manifestations 4% embodiments 2% wellsprings 2% instigators 2% incarnations 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §100: discoverfire-tabletFire §24: exponentsgleaningsGWB §99: Imám ‘Alíkitab-i-iqanKIQ §178: holy Soulsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §499: revelation of Thy purposetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §17: May knowthe-hidden-wordsHW §25: before the countenancewill-and-testamentW&T §5: the angelic company
beauty 86% countenance 3% radiant 1% revelation 1% glory 1% whose 1% most 1% through 1% exalted 1% meditating 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §112: among whomgleaningsGWB §233: and beautykitab-i-ahdAhd §14: Graciouskitab-i-iqanKIQ §281: immortal Beautyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §804: through Thy beautytablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §55: countenancesthe-hidden-wordsHW §51: for My beautywill-and-testamentW&T §5: Blessed Beauty
This form usually rendered as “entire”, “myself”, “may” (15 occurrences)
SE expanded to “for Thy sake”
This form usually rendered as “path”, “way”, “ways” (6 occurrences)
SE expanded to “for the sake”
SE expanded to “Thy loved ones”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §158: of His holy onesgleaningsGWB §412: of understanding heartkitab-i-iqanKIQ §280: continuousprayers-and-meditationsP&M §147: Thy dear oneswill-and-testamentW&T §49: have rainedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §134: didst thou obey thy LordgleaningsGWB §471: and before His loved oneskitab-i-iqanKIQ §274: friends!”
SE rendered وَسَبِيلِ (wasabíl), أَوْلِيائِكَ، (ʾawlíáʾika،), وَلَوْ (walaw) as “for the sake, Thy loved ones”
8 occurrences in corpus
SE rendered أَوْلِيائِكَ، (ʾawlíáʾika،), وَلَوْ (walaw), الجَسَدَ (al-jasad), يَحْزُنُ (yaḥzun) as “Thy loved ones”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §136: Our bodiesgleaningsGWB §362: bodily endurancekitab-i-iqanKIQ §125: the fleshprayers-and-meditationsP&M §432: their bodiestablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §56: her bodythe-hidden-wordsHW §120: framewill-and-testamentW&T §13: its mortal frameepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: the body
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §35: Grieve Thoufire-tabletFire §12: SorrowsgleaningsGWB §657: grieve thine heartkitab-i-iqanKIQ §59: despondencyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §422: thattablet-of-ahmadAhmad §11: afflictionthe-hidden-wordsHW §35: dost thou grieveepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §243: infinite sorrows
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §172: hath been revealedgleaningsGWB §219: heapedkitab-i-ahdAhd §5: have already been revealedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §119: spokenprayers-and-meditationsP&M §48: Pour outtablet-of-carmelCarmel §1: ‘Haste theetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §42: then descendedthe-hidden-wordsHW §97: thy goal
