Prayers and Meditations — §677
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 677 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
إِلهِي إِلهِي خَرَجْتُ مِنْ بَيْتِيْ مُعْتَصِمًا بِحَبْلِ عِنايَتِكَ وَأَوْدَعْتُ نَفْسِي تَحْتَ حِفْظِكَ وَحِراسَتِكَ، أَسْئَلُكَ بِقُدْرَتِكَ الَّتِيْ بِها حَفَظْتَ أَوْلِيائَكَ مِنْ كُلِّ ذِيْ غَفْلَةٍ وَذِيْ شَرارَةٍ وَكُلِّ ظالِمٍ عَنِيدٍ وَكُلِّ فاجِرٍ بَعِيدٍ بِأَنْ تَحْفَظَنِي بِجُودِكَ وَفَضْلِكَ، ثُمَّ أَرْجِعْنِيْ إِلى مَحَلِّي بِحَوْلِكَ وَقُوَّتِكَ إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ المُقْتَدِرُ المُهَيْمِنُ القَيُّومُ.
Shoghi Effendi Translation
O God, my God! I have set out from my home, holding fast unto the cord of Thy love, and I have committed myself wholly to Thy care and Thy protection. I entreat Thee by Thy power through which Thou didst protect Thy loved ones from the wayward and the perverse, and from every contumacious oppressor, and every wicked doer who hath strayed far from Thee, to keep me safe by Thy bounty and Thy grace. Enable me, then, to return to my home by Thy power and Thy might. Thou art, truly, the Almighty, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
Translation Notes
SE expanded to “God, my God”
SE expanded to “have set out”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §160: draw forthgleaningsGWB §466: departed outkitab-i-iqanKIQ §137: forsakenprayers-and-meditationsP&M §677: have set outtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §25: looked outthe-hidden-wordsHW §104: issuewill-and-testamentW&T §43: out fromepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §84: Come ye out
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §123: that same housegleaningsGWB §210: most great Houseprayers-and-meditationsP&M §677: my homewill-and-testamentW&T §47: conspiredepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §132: homegleaningsGWB §618: his chamberprayers-and-meditationsP&M §458: my Habitationwill-and-testamentW&T §38: this House
This form usually rendered as “protector”, “holding” (2 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §188: protectiongleaningsGWB §24: sacred and inviolable Sanctuarykitab-i-ahdAhd §7: It is divinely preservedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §33: “immaculate Souls”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §856: of chastitywill-and-testamentW&T §17: guidanceepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: veil of mine integritygleaningsGWB §87: protect
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §117: the firm cordgleaningsGWB §267: by Thy Cordprayers-and-meditationsP&M §257: ofepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §86: firm CordgleaningsGWB §719: by the Cordprayers-and-meditationsP&M §598: on Thy strong cordepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §165: cord of His bountygleaningsGWB §680: tenaciously to
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §182: AbandongleaningsGWB §163: Thou didst cast me intokitab-i-iqanKIQ §64: entrustethprayers-and-meditationsP&M §559: sufferthe-hidden-wordsHW §20: breathedwill-and-testamentW&T §48: leftepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §104: hast entrustedgleaningsGWB §635: and cast
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §8: my own wishgleaningsGWB §609: Him Whokitab-i-ahdAhd §8: thosekitab-i-iqanKIQ §74: fleeting breathprayers-and-meditationsP&M §316: to Thine own exalted Selftablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §52: within herselfthe-hidden-wordsHW §18: with Mewill-and-testamentW&T §27: the people
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §36: protect himgleaningsGWB §475: protectprayers-and-meditationsP&M §677: protectionwill-and-testamentW&T §17: shelterepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §51: guardethprayers-and-meditationsP&M §619: of Thy protectionwill-and-testamentW&T §1: hath watchedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §146: security
SE expanded to “I entreat Thee”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §146: beseechgleaningsGWB §323: to question his Lordkitab-i-iqanKIQ §285: seekprayers-and-meditationsP&M §707: suppliantepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §56: praygleaningsGWB §337: questionprayers-and-meditationsP&M §835: we beseech Theeepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §152: beseecheth
SE expanded to “by Thy power”
power 45% might 30% strength 7% almighty 7% through 4% authority 3% transcendent 1% all-conquering 1% omnipotent 1% sovereign 1%
SE expanded to “Thy loved ones”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: the holy onesgleaningsGWB §634: of thy Lordkitab-i-iqanKIQ §19: endowedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §654: of Thy loved oneswill-and-testamentW&T §17: the Guardianepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §158: of His holy onesgleaningsGWB §435: leaderskitab-i-iqanKIQ §274: friends!”
SE rendered حَفَظْتَ (ḥafaẓt), أَوْلِيائَكَ (ʾawlíáʾak), ذِيْ (dhí), غَفْلَةٍ (ghaflahin), وَذِيْ (wadhí), شَرارَةٍ (sharárahin), وَكُلِّ (wakull) as “didst protect, Thy loved ones, wayward, the perverse, every”
waywardness 27% wayward 13% forgetfulness 13% strayed 7% careless 7% path 7% turneth 7% hath 7% failed 7% grievously 7%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: for my waywardnessgleaningsGWB §111: failed to perceivekitab-i-ahdAhd §5: remained heedlesskitab-i-iqanKIQ §124: deprivedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §81: that we may utterly forgetthe-hidden-wordsHW §122: neglectedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: the waywardgleaningsGWB §214: turned away
This form usually rendered as “perverse” (1 occurrences)
mischief 26% wicked 22% ungodly 19% evil 11% iniquities 4% wickedness 4% most 4% maleficence 4% perverse 4% evils 4%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §255: Iniquitiesfire-tabletFire §40: the wickedgleaningsGWB §475: the wickednesskitab-i-iqanKIQ §276: most wickedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §308: the maleficencethe-hidden-wordsHW §133: the ungodlywill-and-testamentW&T §12: evilsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §145: evil
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §117: indignitiesfire-tabletFire §49: meeknessgleaningsGWB §221: unfeigned severitykitab-i-iqanKIQ §116: injuryprayers-and-meditationsP&M §573: been sore oppressedthe-hidden-wordsHW §144: gloomwill-and-testamentW&T §4: malevolenceepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: whose cruelty
This form usually rendered as “contumacious” (1 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §84: UsgleaningsGWB §278: Who holdethkitab-i-iqanKIQ §95: God,’prayers-and-meditationsP&M §141: through the appearancethe-hidden-wordsHW §72: to Mewill-and-testamentW&T §47: in the presence ofepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: in the possessiongleaningsGWB §474: in God
SE expanded to “strayed far from Thee”
SE expanded to “by Thy bounty”
bounty 45% bounteousness 12% generosity 12% through 10% grace 6% favor 4% bountiful 4% billowing 2% bestowal 2% graciousness 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: billowing ocean of Thy favorfire-tabletFire §33: Thy bestowalgleaningsGWB §685: munificencekitab-i-iqanKIQ §170: graceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §241: Thy bountiful carethe-hidden-wordsHW §126: to be generousepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §8: of Thy bounteousnessfire-tabletFire §34: Giver
SE expanded to “and Thy grace”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §147: to returngleaningsGWB §357: are applicable tokitab-i-iqanKIQ §171: the “return”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §793: return unto Theetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §47: repaired tothe-hidden-wordsHW §87: sink back towill-and-testamentW&T §16: unto whomepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §8: to turn aside
SE expanded to “by Thy power”
SE expanded to “and Thy might”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: OmnipotentgleaningsGWB §390: ascendancykitab-i-iqanKIQ §28: power and strengthprayers-and-meditationsP&M §627: the Most Powerfulthe-hidden-wordsHW §68: of mightwill-and-testamentW&T §25: forcesepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §55: the sense ofgleaningsGWB §597: power to restore the force
المُهَيْمِنُ
literal: guardian; guardian/protector; guardian, protector
SE expanded to “the Help in Peril”
help 41% omnipotent 16% supreme 13% sovereign 9% ruler 6% transcendent 3% protector 3% transcendeth 3% pervadeth 3% all-subduing 3%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §2: transcendentgleaningsGWB §278: the omnipotent protectorkitab-i-iqanKIQ §27: overpowering majestyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §649: overshadowestgleaningsGWB §180: Protectorkitab-i-iqanKIQ §80: soprayers-and-meditationsP&M §750: and the Sovereign ProtectorgleaningsGWB §531: Sovereign Protector
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §70: isfire-tabletFire §48: He hath risen upgleaningsGWB §728: their life hereafterkitab-i-ahdAhd §11: to be beneath thatkitab-i-iqanKIQ §126: passageprayers-and-meditationsP&M §231: and standethtablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: most exalted Spottablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §44: she rose
