Prayers and Meditations — §489
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 489 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
وَجْهِ الأَرْضِ مَنْ يَذْكُرُكَ إِلاَّ هؤلآءِ وَتَراهُمْ بَيْنَ أَيْدِي الظَّالِمِينَ مِنْ خَلْقِكَ، وَمِنْهُمْ يا إِلهِي مَنْ سُفِكَ دَمُهُ فِي سَبِيلِكَ، وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ خَرَجَ عَنْ دِيارِه مُتَوَجِّهًا إِلى مَقَرِّ عَرْشِكَ وَمُنِعَ عَنِ الدُّخُولِ فِي فِنآءِ عَظَمَتِكَ، وَمِنْهُمْ فِي السَّلاسِلِ وَالأَغْلالِ وَمِنْهُمْ بَيْنَ أَيادِيْ الفُجَّارِ،
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Thou knowest, O my God, that none can be found on the face of the earth to remember Thee except them. Thou seest how the oppressors among Thy creatures have laid hold on them. Some, O my God, have shed their blood in Thy path, others have abandoned their homes and set their faces towards the seat of Thy throne, and were hindered from stepping into the court of Thy great glory, while still others have been cast into prison and are at the mercy of the workers of iniquity.
Translation Notes
يَذْكُرُكَ
literal: remembrance; mention; memory; invocation; reminders; commemorations
وَتَراهُمْ
literal: to see; to perceive; to look; to see, to observe, to behold; to view; vision; dream; sight; ل is prefix; verb تری (you see) is from ر-ا-ي
بَيْنَ
literal: to manifest; to make clear; clear, evident; in; among; between; at this moment
الظَّالِمِينَ
literal: wrongedness, oppression, meekness; state of being wronged or oppressed
خَرَجَ
literal: bringing out, taking out, expulsion, extraction
فِنآءِ
literal: annihilation; perishing; extinction; cessation; the threshold
