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Prayers and Meditations — §665

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 665 of 858.

Source (Arabic)

پروردگارا با تباه كارى و گناهكارى و عدم پرهيزكارى مقعد صدق ميطلبيم و لقاى مليك مقتدر ميجوئيم، امر امر تواست و حكم آن تو و عالم قدرت زير فرمان تو، هر چه كنى عدل صرف است بل فضل محض، يك تجلّى از تجلّيات اسم رحمانت رسم عصيانرا از جهان بر اندازد و محو نمايد، و يك نسيم از نسائم يوم ظهورت عالم را بخلعت تازه مزيّن فرمايد،

Shoghi Effendi Translation

O Divine Providence! Though wicked, sinful, and intemperate, we still seek from Thee a “seat of truth,” and long to behold the countenance of the Omnipotent King. It is Thine to command, and all sovereignty belongeth to Thee, and the realm of might boweth before Thy behest. Everything Thou doest is pure justice, nay, the very essence of grace. One gleam from the splendors of Thy Name, the All-Merciful, sufficeth to banish and blot out every trace of sinfulness from the world, and a single breath from the breezes of the Day of Thy Revelation is enough to adorn all mankind with a fresh attire.

Translation Notes

پروردگارا
r-b-b → “O Divine Providence” Distinctive

literal: Lord; Divine Providence; Sustainer

با
b-ʾ-ʾ → “have clung”

literal: to; with; by

تباه
t-b-h → “wicked”

literal: ruin; destruction; wickedness

كارى
k-r-r

literal: work; deed; action; affair; business

گناهكارى
g-n-ʾ-h → “sinful”

literal: sin; transgression; fault

عدم
ʿ-d-m

literal: nonexistent; void; nullified

پرهيزكارى
p-r-h-y-z → “intemperate”

literal: abstinence; piety; temperance; God-fearing

مقعد
q-ʿ-d → ““seat of”

literal: rule; principle; foundation; basis

صدق
ṣ-d-q → “truth,””

literal: to confirm; to verify; to acknowledge; to testify to truth

ميطلبيم
ṭ-l-b → “seek”

literal: seeker, one who seeks; those who seek

لقاى
l-q-y → “presence”

literal: opposite; facing; in front of; towards

مليك
m-l-k → “King”

literal: kingdom; dominion; realm; sovereignty; possessions; property; ownership

مقتدر
q-d-r → “Omnipotent” Distinctive

literal: power; might; decree; measure; worth

ميجوئيم،
j-s-t

literal: to seek; to quest; to look for; to search for

امر
ʾ-m-r → “command” Distinctive

literal: command; cause; matter; affair; Cause (of God); to command; to order

حكم
ḥ-k-m → “all sovereignty” Distinctive

literal: government; rule; governance; wisdom; firm; solid; strengthened

آن
ʾ-n

literal: that; those; he; she; it

تو
t-w-w → “thou”

literal: you

عالم
ʿ-l-m → “realm of” Distinctive

literal: world; universe; the worlds

زير
z-y-r → “inasmuch as”

literal: because; since; for; inasmuch as

فرمان
f-r-m-ʾ-n → “boweth before Thy behest”

literal: to say; to decree; to ordain; to command

هر
h-r → “Everything”

literal: whatever; all that; whatever thing

چه
ch-h

literal: what; what/for; whatsoever, that which

كنى
k-r-d → “made” Distinctive

literal: to do; to make; to speak; to abstain; to refrain from; to avoid; allusion; insinuation; indirect reference

عدل
ʿ-d-l → “justice”

literal: justice; equity

صرف
ṣ-r-f → “treatment” Distinctive

literal: pure; absolute; to turn away; to expend

است
b-w-d → “is”

literal: to be; are (third person plural present copula)

بل
b-l → “nay”

literal: rather; but; rather/nay

فضل
f-ḍ-l → “grace”

literal: grace; bounty; generosity; excellence

محض،
m-ḥ-ḍ → “wholly”

literal: pure; unmixed; absolute; sheer

يك
y-k → “One”

literal: one; a single

تجلّى
j-l-w → “revelation”

literal: effulgence; manifestation; revelation

از
ʾ-z → “from”

literal: from

اسم
s-m-w → “Name”

literal: name; title; designation

رحمانت
r-ḥ-m → “All-Merciful”

literal: mercy; merciful; the Merciful

رسم
r-s-m → “renown”

literal: form; custom; tradition; design; symbol

عصيانرا
ʿ-ṣ-y → “sinfulness”

literal: disobedience; disobey; disobedient

جهان
j-h-ʾ-n → “world”

literal: world; universe

بر
b-r-r → “righteous” Distinctive

literal: by, with, through (preposition)

اندازد
ʾ-n-d-ʾ-z → “cause”

literal: throws; casts; hurls; measurement; proportion

محو
m-ḥ-w → “blot out”

literal: to efface; to obliterate; to blot out; to cause to disappear

نمايد،
n-m-ʾ

literal: to show, display, exhibit; to grow, develop

نسيم
n-s-m → “breath”

literal: breeze; gentle wind; fragrance

يوم
y-w-m → “Day”

literal: day; age; period; era; a day

ظهورت
ẓ-h-r → “Revelation”

literal: manifestation; appearance; to appear; to manifest

را
r-ʾ-ʾ

literal: object marker; object-marker; to

بخلعت
kh-l-ʿ → “robe”

literal: robe; garment of honor; investiture

تازه
t-ʾ-z → “fresh measure”

literal: fresh; new; renewed

مزيّن
z-y-n → “adorn”

literal: to adorn; ornament; beauty; adornment; embellishment; decoration

فرمايد،
f-r-m

literal: to say; to decree; to ordain; to command

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