Prayers and Meditations — §436
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 436 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
كُلَّ البِلادِ وَبِهَا اضْطَرَبَتْ أَكثَرُ العِبادِ، أَسْئَلُكَ بِاسْمِكَ الأَعْظَمِ بِأَنْ تَخْلُقَ فِي كُلِّ بَلَدٍ خَلْقًا لِيَتَوَجَّهُنَّ إِلَيْكَ وَيَذْكرُنَّكَ بَيْنَ عِبادِكَ وَيَرْفَعُنَّ رَاياتِ نُصْرَتِكَ بِالحِكْمَةِ وَالبَيانِ وَيَنْقَطِعُنَّ عَنِ الأَكْوانِ، إِنَّكَ
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Darkness hath encompassed every land, O my God, and caused most of Thy servants to tremble. I beseech Thee, by Thy Most Great Name, to raise in every city a new creation that shall turn towards Thee, and shall remember Thee amidst Thy servants, and shall unfurl by virtue of their utterances and wisdom the ensigns of Thy victory, and shall detach themselves from all created things.
Translation Notes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §164: one country to anothergleaningsGWB §511: their territorieskitab-i-iqanKIQ §211: soilprayers-and-meditationsP&M §353: nationsthe-hidden-wordsHW §3: of thy neighborwill-and-testamentW&T §5: the landepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §79: of the citiesgleaningsGWB §267: of the earth
1 occurrence in corpus
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §140: he became so perturbedgleaningsGWB §102: perplexedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §267: troubledprayers-and-meditationsP&M §701: sore vexedtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §9: rain blows upon theetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §57: smotethe-hidden-wordsHW §67: shall be perturbedwill-and-testamentW&T §53: sunk
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §218: the most partfire-tabletFire §24: the peoplegleaningsGWB §111: greater partkitab-i-iqanKIQ §7: of theprayers-and-meditationsP&M §111: the living waterstablet-of-ahmadAhmad §10: a river of lifethe-hidden-wordsHW §113: riverepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §150: most of
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §152: beseechethgleaningsGWB §356: We beseechkitab-i-iqanKIQ §285: seekprayers-and-meditationsP&M §699: begepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §150: I implore TheegleaningsGWB §112: I beseechprayers-and-meditationsP&M §707: suppliantepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §104: ask
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §56: chiefgleaningsGWB §43: and overpowering majestykitab-i-iqanKIQ §84: denseprayers-and-meditationsP&M §651: and Whose majestythe-hidden-wordsHW §21: plenteouswill-and-testamentW&T §40: greatest and mostepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §56: all-surpassinggleaningsGWB §317: His majesty
This form usually rendered as “raise”, “create” (3 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §197: characterfire-tabletFire §40: wert createdgleaningsGWB §388: the creaturekitab-i-iqanKIQ §87: endowedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §841: Create, moreovertablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §54: created herthe-hidden-wordsHW §14: I created theeepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §122: conduct
SE expanded to “shall turn towards”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §147: wouldst turn awayfire-tabletFire §30: This FacegleaningsGWB §29: directed towards me Thy stepskitab-i-ahdAhd §10: turn your faceskitab-i-iqanKIQ §284: meaningsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §792: hearesttablet-of-carmelCarmel §1: the light of thethe-hidden-wordsHW §41: before Our Face
This form usually rendered as “unto” (4 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “help”, “succor”, “assist” (10 occurrences)
wisdom 46% law 20% hath 6% divine 6% all 4% commandment 4% commandments 4% authority 4% judgment 4% injunction 4%
utterance 53% bayán 17% eloquence 6% glorification 6% utterances 6% ornament 3% articulate 3% time 3% speak 3% give 3%
وَيَنْقَطِعُنَّ
literal: detachment; detached; severed
SE expanded to “shall detach themselves”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: them that are rid of all attachment to any save TheegleaningsGWB §356: that thou mayest detachkitab-i-iqanKIQ §269: renounceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §484: will rid himselftablet-of-ahmadAhmad §2: severed onestablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §18: They passedwill-and-testamentW&T §11: decisiveepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §241: cut
SE expanded to “all created things”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §129: wasfire-tabletFire §35: universegleaningsGWB §300: be regardedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §37: that ye mayprayers-and-meditationsP&M §132: of Thy creationtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §15: withhold not thyselftablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: thou hesitatetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §31: whose heart hath
