Prayers and Meditations — §569
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 569 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ المُقْتَدِرُ عَلَى ما تَشاءُ وَإِنَّكَ أَنْتَ العَزِيزُ المُسْتَعانُ.
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Potent art Thou to do Thy pleasure. Thou truly art the All-Glorious, to whom all cry for help.
Translation Notes
SE expanded to “Potent art Thou”
almighty 34% powerful 16% potent 16% most 10% all-powerful 10% lord 5% god 3% omnipotent 3% power 3% strength 2%
This form usually rendered as “thou”, “pleaseth”, “what” (83 occurrences)
SE expanded to “to do Thy pleasure”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §155: who wishethgleaningsGWB §465: ye pleasekitab-i-iqanKIQ §184: pleaseth,”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §584: by Thy willtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §6: desirethtablet-of-carmelCarmel §2: created things.’the-hidden-wordsHW §9: that iswill-and-testamentW&T §5: this one, unworthy though he be
all-glorious 44% almighty 23% mighty 13% gracious 8% all-powerful 3% glorious 2% glory 2% god 2% most 1% exalted 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §150: Thy mightgleaningsGWB §495: His glorykitab-i-iqanKIQ §130: of celestial gloryprayers-and-meditationsP&M §716: He is truly exaltedtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §4: Incomparablethe-hidden-wordsHW §58: splendorwill-and-testamentW&T §3: preciousepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §103: is the Almighty
SE rendered العَزِيزُ (al-ʿazíz), المُسْتَعانُ (al-mustaʿán) as “the All-Glorious”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §142: assisted bygleaningsGWB §452: and sole sustainerkitab-i-ahdAhd §8: aidkitab-i-iqanKIQ §57: intervened andprayers-and-meditationsP&M §569: to whom all cry for helpwill-and-testamentW&T §5: his associatesepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §63: to succorgleaningsGWB §172: reinforce
