Prayers and Meditations — §413
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 413 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
أَنْتَ الَّذِيْ بِكَلِمَتِكَ اجْتَذَبْتَ قُلُوبَ الأَصْفِيآءِ عَلَى شَأْنٍ انْقَطَعُوا فِي حُبِّكَ عَمَّا سِواكَ، وَأَنْفَقُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ وَأَرْواحَهُمْ فِي سَبِيلِكَ وَحَمَلُوا فِي حُبِّكَ ما لا حَمَلَهُ أَحَدٌ مِنْ بَرِيَّتِكَ،
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Thou art He Who, through a word of Thy mouth, hath so enravished the hearts of Thy chosen ones that they have, in their love for Thee, detached themselves from all except Thyself, and laid down their lives and sacrificed their souls in Thy path, and borne, for Thy sake, what none of Thy creatures hath borne.
Translation Notes
SE expanded to “through a word”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §250: “He that discoursed upon Mefire-tabletFire §48: Thy shining wordgleaningsGWB §14: conversingkitab-i-ahdAhd §14: single utterancekitab-i-iqanKIQ §2: that whichprayers-and-meditationsP&M §352: Speak Thoutablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §48: gave utterancethe-hidden-wordsHW §95: faith
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §138: ecstasiesfire-tabletFire §3: O EnchantergleaningsGWB §112: filled with ecstasykitab-i-iqanKIQ §163: transportsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §464: be attractedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §22: lodestonegleaningsGWB §654: the Lode Star of my soulprayers-and-meditationsP&M §435: transport
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §217: changedgleaningsGWB §344: vast changeskitab-i-iqanKIQ §125: want of understandingprayers-and-meditationsP&M §749: into my hearttablet-of-ahmadAhmad §13: and their own heartsthe-hidden-wordsHW §67: nor heartswill-and-testamentW&T §30: agitatedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §64: their hearts
SE expanded to “Thy chosen ones”
SE rendered قُلُوبَ (qulúb), الأَصْفِيآءِ (aṣ-ṣfíáʾ), شَأْنٍ (shaʾanin), انْقَطَعُوا (inqaṭaʿúá), حُبِّكَ (ḥubbik) as “hearts, Thy chosen ones, detached themselves from all, love for Thee”
such 41% station 18% state 8% glory 8% honor 8% through 5% excellence 5% distinction 3% neither 3% people 3%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §158: the peoplefire-tabletFire §27: the signsgleaningsGWB §135: a glorykitab-i-iqanKIQ §267: understandingprayers-and-meditationsP&M §291: Thy majestythe-hidden-wordsHW §68: My statewill-and-testamentW&T §15: all earthly thingsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §59: rank
SE expanded to “detached themselves from all”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §180: countrygleaningsGWB §255: are detached from all else but Himkitab-i-iqanKIQ §14: been withheldprayers-and-meditationsP&M §395: and wholly detachedtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §2: severed oneswill-and-testamentW&T §11: decisiveepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §164: completely detachedgleaningsGWB §533: may detach yourselves
SE expanded to “love for Thee”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §19: For the lovefire-tabletFire §7: of Thy lovegleaningsGWB §667: hard it iskitab-i-iqanKIQ §15: the lustprayers-and-meditationsP&M §640: the love I bear to Theetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §40: the Beloved Onethe-hidden-wordsHW §3: best belovedwill-and-testamentW&T §6: their
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §132: everywheregleaningsGWB §666: for naught elsekitab-i-iqanKIQ §159: unto themprayers-and-meditationsP&M §601: by any one save Thyselftablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §44: full heightthe-hidden-wordsHW §16: another than Meepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §226: equalgleaningsGWB §370: seat
SE expanded to “laid down their lives”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §132: sacrificedfire-tabletFire §10: in malicegleaningsGWB §154: sacrificingkitab-i-iqanKIQ §163: offered upprayers-and-meditationsP&M §248: to have offered upthe-hidden-wordsHW §58: thou mayest drawwill-and-testamentW&T §36: their craftepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §87: malicious
SE rendered سِواكَ، (siwáka،), وَأَنْفَقُوا (waʾanfaqúá), أَنْفُسَهُمْ (ʾanfusahum), وَأَرْواحَهُمْ (waʾarwáḥahum), سَبِيلِكَ (sabílik) as “Thyself, laid down their lives, sacrificed their souls, Thy path”
own 36% themselves 30% souls 9% within 6% hearts 6% lives 4% proper 2% what 2% persons 2% heedlessness 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §105: itgleaningsGWB §680: self and passionkitab-i-iqanKIQ §178: the mind of manprayers-and-meditationsP&M §773: by Thyselftablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §37: within thyselfthe-hidden-wordsHW §69: even as one soulwill-and-testamentW&T §27: the peopleepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §134: thy passions
SE expanded to “sacrificed their souls”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §136: in the pathgleaningsGWB §317: a means of admittancekitab-i-iqanKIQ §25: in His pathprayers-and-meditationsP&M §223: Theetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §11: in My paththe-hidden-wordsHW §46: My pathwill-and-testamentW&T §3: shed streamsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §54: in the path of
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §117: endured steadfastlygleaningsGWB §98: Bearerskitab-i-ahdAhd §3: sustainingkitab-i-iqanKIQ §47: suffered and enduredprayers-and-meditationsP&M §413: hath bornewill-and-testamentW&T §52: forbearanceepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §129: hath enduredgleaningsGWB §298: sustaining its weight
SE rendered حُبِّكَ (ḥubbik), حَمَلَهُ (ḥamalah), أَحَدٌ (ʾaḥadun), بَرِيَّتِكَ، (baríratika،) as “Thy, borne, Thy creatures”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §232: BrieflygleaningsGWB §130: arisenprayers-and-meditationsP&M §308: against Theeepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §9: creationgleaningsGWB §621: His creaturesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §416: of creationepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §40: clear of themgleaningsGWB §384: exalted
