Prayers and Meditations — §692
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 692 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
أَيْ رَبِّ فَاجْعَلْ رِزْقِي جَمالَكَ وَشَرابِي وِصالَكَ وَأَمَلِي رِضائَكَ وَعَمَلِي ثَنائَكَ وَأَنيْسِيْ ذِكْرَكَ وَمُعِينِيْ سُلْطانَكَ وَمُسْتَقَرِّي مَقَرَّكَ وَوَطَنِي المَقامَ الَّذِيْ جَعَلْتَهُ مُقَدَّسًا مِنْ حُدُوداتِ المُحْتَجِبِينَ
Shoghi Effendi Translation
O my Lord! Make Thy beauty to be my food, and Thy presence my drink, and Thy pleasure my hope, and praise of Thee my action, and remembrance of Thee my companion, and the power of Thy sovereignty my succorer, and Thy habitation my home, and my dwelling-place the seat Thou hast sanctified from the limitations imposed upon them who are shut out as by a veil from Thee.
Translation Notes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §80: of its LordgleaningsGWB §319: Educatorkitab-i-iqanKIQ §133: the Sourceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §196: arttablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §23: be my Lordthe-hidden-wordsHW §25: of thy Godwill-and-testamentW&T §47: O my God!epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §108: with my Lord
This form usually rendered as “grant”, “let”, “"consecrate” (22 occurrences)
grant 23% let 15% “consecrate 8% imagine 8% knit 8% strengthen 8% single 8% “dye 8% enable 8% cause 8%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §212: makethfire-tabletFire §44: We have madegleaningsGWB §459: ye have, at the last, made Mekitab-i-iqanKIQ §175: thrustprayers-and-meditationsP&M §395: and maketablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §19: ordainedthe-hidden-wordsHW §12: have bountifully shedwill-and-testamentW&T §36: and grant that
food 67% sustaining 33%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §61: nourish themselvesgleaningsGWB §449: Who hath nourished theekitab-i-iqanKIQ §247: drunkprayers-and-meditationsP&M §598: and nourished mewill-and-testamentW&T §36: Vouchsafe unto themepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §205: attaingleaningsGWB §17: tastekitab-i-iqanKIQ §137: touching
beauty 85% gaze 2% face 2% whose 2% countenance 1% glory 1% contemplation 1% swear 1% most 1% through 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §182: the fairest and most comely of womengleaningsGWB §38: partiallykitab-i-ahdAhd §14: Graciouskitab-i-iqanKIQ §246: theprayers-and-meditationsP&M §804: through Thy beautytablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §28: her beautythe-hidden-wordsHW §51: for My beautywill-and-testamentW&T §5: the most holy Abhá Beauty
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: quaffedgleaningsGWB §111: to quaff thy fillkitab-i-ahdAhd §4: drink then your fillkitab-i-iqanKIQ §5: drink deepprayers-and-meditationsP&M §421: Give them, then, to drinkthe-hidden-wordsHW §147: drinkestepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §150: Let me quaffgleaningsGWB §57: Drink
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §102: of His presencefire-tabletFire §2: of Thy reuniongleaningsGWB §299: thou touchestkitab-i-ahdAhd §10: of My presencekitab-i-iqanKIQ §258: linkedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §149: totablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §18: reachedthe-hidden-wordsHW §7: reunion with Me
pleasure 30% good 21% good-pleasure 13% sake 13% will 6% thee 6% unto 4% content 2% please 2% pleasure!” 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §8: contentfire-tabletFire §48: Thy pleasuregleaningsGWB §36: holy will and pleasurekitab-i-iqanKIQ §162: preferredprayers-and-meditationsP&M §824: and pleasestthe-hidden-wordsHW §71: Be then contentwill-and-testamentW&T §8: submitted to His Willepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §129: satisfied with His pleasure
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §239: did whatgleaningsGWB §238: they have donekitab-i-iqanKIQ §242: wereprayers-and-meditationsP&M §773: have observedtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §4: conformingthe-hidden-wordsHW §69: by your deedswill-and-testamentW&T §39: bear upon daily transactionsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §42: doeth
SE expanded to “praise of Thee”
praise 45% extol 16% celebrate 8% glorify 6% virtues 6% celebrating 6% extolling 5% magnifying 3% glory 3% praises 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §6: to glorify TheegleaningsGWB §389: Nextkitab-i-iqanKIQ §74: Thereuponprayers-and-meditationsP&M §198: He recounteth Thywill-and-testamentW&T §39: anotherepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §46: to celebrate His praisegleaningsGWB §627: and to celebrate Thy praisekitab-i-iqanKIQ §182: the latter
SE expanded to “remembrance of Thee”
remembrance 37% praise 20% remember 9% remembering 9% glorification 5% name 5% whose 5% make 4% mention 3% through 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §102: the remembrancegleaningsGWB §247: a warningkitab-i-ahdAhd §2: call to mindkitab-i-iqanKIQ §25: were to accompanyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §779: Thine own Selftablet-of-ahmadAhmad §6: utter His calltablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §15: all mentionthe-hidden-wordsHW §44: I may remember thee
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §61: assistgleaningsGWB §45: by God’s invisible assistancekitab-i-ahdAhd §8: aidkitab-i-iqanKIQ §31: assistethprayers-and-meditationsP&M §437: He Whose help is implored by all menwill-and-testamentW&T §5: his associatesepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §63: to succorgleaningsGWB §598: helpers
SE expanded to “power of Thy sovereignty”
sovereignty 52% power 17% through 16% sovereign 5% almighty 2% surpassing 2% most 2% sublimity 2% whose 2% before 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §150: of Thy sovereigntygleaningsGWB §105: Divinekitab-i-iqanKIQ §131: this sovereigntyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §238: Thy kingshiptablet-of-ahmadAhmad §1: is the Kingthe-hidden-wordsHW §98: chiefwill-and-testamentW&T §7: power of the Crownepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: through the power of His sovereignty
dwelling-place 50% home 50%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: and testifyinggleaningsGWB §112: to acknowledgekitab-i-ahdAhd §6: singled outkitab-i-iqanKIQ §117: confess and acknowledgeprayers-and-meditationsP&M §23: my dwelling-placetablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: hath been made the seat ofthe-hidden-wordsHW §130: the courtwill-and-testamentW&T §3: He was incarcerated
home 50% dwelling-place 50%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §201: their own nativefire-tabletFire §43: the landgleaningsGWB §699: homekitab-i-iqanKIQ §187: native landprayers-and-meditationsP&M §827: to his most exalted homethe-hidden-wordsHW §75: shelterwill-and-testamentW&T §3: andepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §183: the Most Sublime Habitation
This form usually rendered as “station”, “connection”, “such” (339 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §171: Resurrectionfire-tabletFire §48: He hath risen upgleaningsGWB §561: fixed resolvekitab-i-ahdAhd §13: your stationkitab-i-iqanKIQ §20: As to the matter ofprayers-and-meditationsP&M §350: the depthtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §9: so steadfasttablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §44: that place
SE rendered المَقامَ (al-maqám), جَعَلْتَهُ (jaʿaltah), مُقَدَّسًا (muqaddasan), حُدُوداتِ (ḥudúdát) as “the seat, hast sanctified, the limitations”
sanctified 25% holy 17% exalted 17% immeasurably 10% sacred 9% sanctify 7% immensely 5% most 3% transcendeth 3% purged 3%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §54: liberategleaningsGWB §685: divinekitab-i-iqanKIQ §87: sanctified themselvesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §713: Ever-Blessedtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §15: hath exaltedthe-hidden-wordsHW §120: purewill-and-testamentW&T §18: detachment from all worldly thingsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §81: hallowed
limitations 47% limitation 11% bounds 11% limits 5% principle 5% dictates 5% traditions 5% established 5% any 5%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §228: according to its capacitygleaningsGWB §111: penetratingkitab-i-iqanKIQ §47: the Lawprayers-and-meditationsP&M §233: restricted by such limitationstablet-of-ahmadAhmad §5: ordinancestablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §18: worldly limitationsthe-hidden-wordsHW §39: in My statutesepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §77: sharp
SE rendered حُدُوداتِ (ḥudúdát), المُحْتَجِبِينَ (al-muḥtajibín) as “the limitations”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §14: shut out as by a veil fromgleaningsGWB §680: dustkitab-i-iqanKIQ §204: obscureprayers-and-meditationsP&M §837: may shut them outtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §26: her browthe-hidden-wordsHW §33: dost thou veil thyselfwill-and-testamentW&T §4: veil theeepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: that hath been shut out as by a veil from God
