Prayers and Meditations — §487
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 487 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
يا إِلهِي تَرَى بِأَنَّ السُّكرَ أَخَذَ عِبادَكَ الَّذِينَ أَعْرَضُوا عَنْ جَمَالِكَ وَاعْتَرَضُوا عَلَى ما نُزِّلَ عَنْ يَمِينِ عَرْشِ عَظَمَتِكَ، قَدْ أَتَيْتُ يا إِلهِي عَلَى ظُلَلِ المَعَانِي وَالبَيَانِ، إِذًا اضْطَرَبَتْ أَهْلُ الأَكْوانِ وَتَزَلْزَلَتْ أَرْكانُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِبُرْهانِكَ، يا مَنْ فِي قَبْضَتِكَ مَنْ فِي الإِمْكانِ، أَنْتَ الَّذِيْ يا إِلهِي نادَي
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Thou beholdest, O my God, how bewildered in their drunkenness are Thy servants who have turned back from Thy beauty and caviled at what hath been sent down from the right hand of the throne of Thy majesty. Thou didst come, O my God, in the clouds of Thy spirit and Thine utterance, and lo, the entire creation shook and trembled, and the limbs of them who repudiated Thy testimonies were made to quiver, O Thou in Whose grasp is the lordship of all things!
Translation Notes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §245: gracegleaningsGWB §493: divinely revealedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §30: knowledgeprayers-and-meditationsP&M §371: O my Godthe-hidden-wordsHW §147: celestialwill-and-testamentW&T §53: the Holy Writepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: God isgleaningsGWB §563: Divine mercy
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §136: Wert thou to lookfire-tabletFire §26: seestgleaningsGWB §359: judgmentprayers-and-meditationsP&M §136: maketh any distinctionthe-hidden-wordsHW §37: and to mirror forthwill-and-testamentW&T §5: behold himepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §198: We beheldgleaningsGWB §720: bring
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §129: state of strange stuporfire-tabletFire §19: agonies of deathgleaningsGWB §75: all eyes have staredprayers-and-meditationsP&M §535: withepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §102: inebriatedfire-tabletFire §21: drunkennessgleaningsGWB §278: the drunkennessprayers-and-meditationsP&M §718: burneth continually
arrested 28% seize 17% hath 11% seek 11% inebriated 6% assumption 6% seized 6% rescued 6% overwhelmed 6% apprehended 6%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: clunggleaningsGWB §508: Cleave yekitab-i-ahdAhd §4: Graspkitab-i-iqanKIQ §237: worshipprayers-and-meditationsP&M §846: were encompassedwill-and-testamentW&T §5: regarded himepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §162: seizegleaningsGWB §433: will lay violent hold on
This form usually rendered as “doubters”, “dependents”, “generations” (13 occurrences)
SE expanded to “have turned back”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §232: do not protestgleaningsGWB §568: denied and contendedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §54: apostatizedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §251: turned backtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §14: turns awaythe-hidden-wordsHW §24: thee turn awaywill-and-testamentW&T §17: hathepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §166: turn aside
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 §182: fairest and most comelygleaningsGWB §20: withinkitab-i-ahdAhd §14: Graciouskitab-i-iqanKIQ §268: themprayers-and-meditationsP&M §248: my glorytablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §55: countenancesthe-hidden-wordsHW §68: and by My beautywill-and-testamentW&T §3: Abhá Beauty
SE expanded to “hath been sent down”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §108: revealedgleaningsGWB §583: shall also descendkitab-i-ahdAhd §5: have already been revealedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §74: by the words: “comingprayers-and-meditationsP&M §624: and didst vouchsafetablet-of-carmelCarmel §1: ‘Haste theetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §18: gradesthe-hidden-wordsHW §68: in accordance with
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §171: right sidegleaningsGWB §537: on his right handprayers-and-meditationsP&M §231: His right handepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §220: Thy right handgleaningsGWB §198: the right sideprayers-and-meditationsP&M §412: Whose right handepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §67: the right-handgleaningsGWB §485: right hand
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §205: AnnouncementgleaningsGWB §600: most sublimekitab-i-iqanKIQ §60: thisprayers-and-meditationsP&M §106: of majestythe-hidden-wordsHW §21: plenteouswill-and-testamentW&T §25: distinguishedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §130: the Most GreatgleaningsGWB §51: of His mighty throne.”
This form usually rendered as “visit” (1 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: shadow of the court of Thy bountygleaningsGWB §607: unto them.…kitab-i-iqanKIQ §152: clouds,”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §257: beneath the shadowthe-hidden-wordsHW §104: shadewill-and-testamentW&T §5: under the shadowepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §168: overshadowedgleaningsGWB §25: the shadow
This form usually rendered as “meaning”, “inner”, “divine” (56 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §143: loving-kindness andfire-tabletFire §15: Thy bountygleaningsGWB §211: the tender mercieskitab-i-ahdAhd §6: investedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §25: the meaningprayers-and-meditationsP&M §745: tothe-hidden-wordsHW §3: the signwill-and-testamentW&T §6: in the aforementioned manner
utterance 53% bayán 17% eloquence 6% glorification 6% utterances 6% ornament 3% articulate 3% time 3% speak 3% give 3%
SE expanded to “shook and trembled”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §193: fearfulgleaningsGWB §70: shall tremblekitab-i-iqanKIQ §206: dismayprayers-and-meditationsP&M §622: sore-vexedtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §9: rain blows upon theetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §57: smotethe-hidden-wordsHW §67: shall be perturbedwill-and-testamentW&T §3: scourged
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: among the dwellers of Thy realmgleaningsGWB §299: the inhabitantskitab-i-ahdAhd §5: beholders ofkitab-i-iqanKIQ §217: jewellerprayers-and-meditationsP&M §119: Thy kindredthe-hidden-wordsHW §109: DWELLERSwill-and-testamentW&T §34: devotedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §94: of the people
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §150: have beenfire-tabletFire §35: universegleaningsGWB §247: may servekitab-i-iqanKIQ §107: like thoseprayers-and-meditationsP&M §388: the soultablet-of-ahmadAhmad §15: withhold not thyselftablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: thou hesitatetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §31: whose heart hath
SE rendered اضْطَرَبَتْ (iḍṭarabat), أَهْلُ (ʾahl), الأَكْوانِ (al-ʾakwán), وَتَزَلْزَلَتْ (watazalzalat), أَرْكانُ (ʾarkán), الَّذِينَ (adh-dhín), كَفَرُوا (kafarúá) as “shook and trembled, entire, creation, limbs, who, repudiated”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §79: have trembledgleaningsGWB §423: tremblekitab-i-iqanKIQ §267: waveringprayers-and-meditationsP&M §624: have been made to tremblewill-and-testamentW&T §34: convulsed and shakenepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §129: made the earth to tremblegleaningsGWB §86: quakedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §55: waver
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §79: the foundationsgleaningsGWB §244: the limbsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §550: foundationsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §186: our limbsgleaningsGWB §163: My limbsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §487: limbsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §52: pillarsgleaningsGWB §476: with thy whole being
have 40% disbelieved 21% repudiated 17% believe 4% denied 4% believed 4% rejected 2% refused 2% openly 2% had 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §6: disbelievedgleaningsGWB §221: have repudiatedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §57: ungratefulprayers-and-meditationsP&M §427: and the perversetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §7: denywill-and-testamentW&T §34: denied Thy wondrous Signsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §171: infidelsgleaningsGWB §339: of the infidels
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §154: Proof)gleaningsGWB §632: My proofkitab-i-iqanKIQ §262: glorious evidenceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §308: in Thy testimonyepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §240: indubitablegleaningsGWB §63: His proofkitab-i-iqanKIQ §103: demonstrateprayers-and-meditationsP&M §288: Thy proof
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §161: the graspgleaningsGWB §627: Whose graspkitab-i-iqanKIQ §182: the hollowprayers-and-meditationsP&M §257: holdeth in His graspepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §134: graspgleaningsGWB §78: His graspkitab-i-iqanKIQ §101: the breathprayers-and-meditationsP&M §795: my grasp
الإِمْكانِ،
literal: possibility; possible; possible things
SE expanded to “the lordship of all things”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §30: all created thingsfire-tabletFire §20: every creaturegleaningsGWB §122: contingentkitab-i-iqanKIQ §167: earthprayers-and-meditationsP&M §438: of all created thingsthe-hidden-wordsHW §128: securewill-and-testamentW&T §17: subordinationepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §228: attainable in
SE rendered إِلهِي (ʾilhí), نادَي (náday) as “”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §151: calling aloudgleaningsGWB §23: callkitab-i-iqanKIQ §130: of Judgmentprayers-and-meditationsP&M §28: Whose voicewill-and-testamentW&T §32: invokeepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: most sweet VoicegleaningsGWB §176: The summonsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §766: ringing
