Prayers and Meditations — §729
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 729 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
ِهِ وَسَمآءِ عِرْفانِهِ اعْتَرَفَ بِعَجْزِهِ عَنْ عِرْفانِ أَدْنى آيَةٍ مِنْ آياتِكَ الَّتِي تُنْسَبُ إِلى قَلَمِكَ الأَعْلى فَكَيْفَ ذاتِكَ الأَبْهى وَكَيْنُونَتِكَ العُلْيا، لَمْ أَدْرِ يا إِلهِي بِأَيِّ ذِكْرٍ أَذْكُرُكَ وَبِأَيِّ وَصْفٍ أَصِفُكَ وَبِأَيِّ ثَنآءٍ أُثْنِيْكَ لَوْ أَصِفُكَ بِالأَسْمآءِ أَرى أَنَّ مَلَكُوتَها خُلِقَ بِحَركةِ إِصْبَعِكَ وَتَرتَعِدُ فَرآئِصُهُ مِ
Shoghi Effendi Translation
I swear by Thy Beauty, O King of eternity Who sittest on Thy most glorious Throne! He Who is the Dayspring of Thy signs and the Revealer of Thy clear tokens hath, notwithstanding the immensity of His wisdom and the loftiness of His knowledge, confessed His powerlessness to comprehend the least of Thine utterances, in their relation to Thy most exalted Pen,—how much more is He incapable of apprehending the nature of Thine all-glorious Self and of Thy most august Essence!
Translation Notes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §99: the Object of all namesfire-tabletFire §36: heavenlygleaningsGWB §652: the cloudskitab-i-iqanKIQ §169: in nameprayers-and-meditationsP&M §123: by Thytablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: Names.’tablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §12: my Lordthe-hidden-wordsHW §29: he bear My name
knowledge 34% understanding 26% recognition 8% recognize 8% comprehension 7% know 6% recognizing 4% insight 3% wisdom 2% visualize 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §243: known asgleaningsGWB §223: Ponder this in your heartskitab-i-ahdAhd §13: perform praiseworthy deedskitab-i-iqanKIQ §101: the sagesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §643: hath borne witnesstablet-of-ahmadAhmad §12: to seethe-hidden-wordsHW §99: HAVE A NAMEepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §189: failed to recognize
powerlessness 38% helplessness 14% none 10% impotence 10% failed 5% futility 5% incapacity 5% impotent 5% pen 5% weakness 5%
This form usually rendered as “verse”, “sign”, “mighty” (31 occurrences)
relationship 22% related 15% kinship 11% ascribed 7% charges 7% have 7% attributed 7% accusations 7% impute 7% kindred 7%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §181: accusationgleaningsGWB §300: attributedkitab-i-ahdAhd §15: kindredkitab-i-iqanKIQ §131: comparisonprayers-and-meditationsP&M §365: and hast relatedthe-hidden-wordsHW §30: towill-and-testamentW&T §4: attributingepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §92: relate yourselves
SE expanded to “Thy most exalted”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §129: AbhágleaningsGWB §375: of His Penkitab-i-iqanKIQ §155: Pen of Powerprayers-and-meditationsP&M §145: Thy most exalted Penwill-and-testamentW&T §13: climeepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §148: Sublime PengleaningsGWB §66: exclaimethprayers-and-meditationsP&M §780: Thy
SE rendered تُنْسَبُ (tunsab), قَلَمِكَ (qalamik), الأَعْلى (al-ʾaʿlى), فَكَيْفَ (fakayf), ذاتِكَ (dhátik), الأَبْهى (al-ʾabhى) as “in their relation to, Thy most exalted, Pen,—how much more, Thine all-glorious Self, and of Thy most”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §136: the Most Sublimefire-tabletFire §42: highestgleaningsGWB §32: of allkitab-i-ahdAhd §16: on thekitab-i-iqanKIQ §74: transcendent powerprayers-and-meditationsP&M §843: how couldtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §56: around herthe-hidden-wordsHW §92: the realm on high
SE expanded to “Pen,—how much more”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §168: “HowgleaningsGWB §374: how much lesskitab-i-iqanKIQ §282: “What of the signprayers-and-meditationsP&M §631: into conformity withthe-hidden-wordsHW §15: whyepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §185: the naturegleaningsGWB §453: Why, thenprayers-and-meditationsP&M §791: how much more to apprehend
SE expanded to “Thine all-glorious Self”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §172: in His EssencegleaningsGWB §126: His Essencekitab-i-iqanKIQ §106: the unchangeable Beingprayers-and-meditationsP&M §243: Thine own Essencewill-and-testamentW&T §36: my lifeepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: Thine EssencegleaningsGWB §655: May my lifekitab-i-iqanKIQ §196: person
SE expanded to “and of Thy most”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §120: (bloodmoney)gleaningsGWB §200: of Immortalityprayers-and-meditationsP&M §237: of Thy great glorythe-hidden-wordsHW §22: effulgent glorywill-and-testamentW&T §14: Abháepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §204: Thy most glorious lightgleaningsGWB §54: inebriation of Thy presenceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §761: Most Glorious
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §205: wertfire-tabletFire §35: universegleaningsGWB §605: taketh no accountkitab-i-iqanKIQ §104: ancient eternityprayers-and-meditationsP&M §231: embracethtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §15: withhold not thyselftablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: thou hesitatetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §31: whose heart hath
SE rendered وَكَيْنُونَتِكَ (wakaynúnatik), العُلْيا، (al-ʿulyá،), أَدْرِ (ʾadr) as “august Essence”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §8: I know notgleaningsGWB §338: accomplishmentsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §646: the oceanepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §234: have come intoprayers-and-meditationsP&M §378: thinkepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: know notprayers-and-meditationsP&M §462: were cheeredepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §209: possesseth
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §206: GodheadgleaningsGWB §148: this God-givenkitab-i-iqanKIQ §198: the realm of Divinityprayers-and-meditationsP&M §470: Lordthe-hidden-wordsHW §147: celestialwill-and-testamentW&T §23: is of Godepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §168: divine and celestialgleaningsGWB §493: divinely revealed
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §134: a signgleaningsGWB §537: versesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §25: or theepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: Thy signsgleaningsGWB §609: the versesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §293: wonders of Thine utterancesepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: the signsgleaningsGWB §384: sign
remembrance 25% mention 22% praise 20% mentioned 8% recorded 4% describe 4% remember 4% remembering 4% referred 4% words 3%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §103: make mentiongleaningsGWB §725: stigmatizedkitab-i-ahdAhd §4: reckonedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §225: expoundprayers-and-meditationsP&M §583: all human praisetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §6: utter His calltablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: proclaimeththe-hidden-wordsHW §44: Make mention of Me
description 24% praise 24% describing 12% applicable 6% described 6% character 6% eulogy 6% extol 6% glory 6% notion 6%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §13: AttributesgleaningsGWB §357: the attributeskitab-i-iqanKIQ §93: extol and magnifyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §561: and Thyepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: the descriptiongleaningsGWB §94: These attributeskitab-i-iqanKIQ §86: human traitsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §315: glory
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §143: SecondarilygleaningsGWB §117: praisekitab-i-iqanKIQ §151: “Secondaryprayers-and-meditationsP&M §140: virtuesepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: Thy celebrationgleaningsGWB §321: createdprayers-and-meditationsP&M §267: from extolling Thy virtuesepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §6: to glorify Thee
8 occurrences in corpus
SE rendered أَرى (ʾarى), مَلَكُوتَها (malakútahá) as “King”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §136: thou wouldst perceivefire-tabletFire §26: seestgleaningsGWB §47: thou hast haltedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §13: Thou beholdest methe-hidden-wordsHW §62: thou mayest obtainwill-and-testamentW&T §5: behold himepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §136: Wert thou to lookgleaningsGWB §78: they behold
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: the KingdomgleaningsGWB §357: nokitab-i-iqanKIQ §43: the angels descend.”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §815: kingdoms oftablet-of-carmelCarmel §1: of the Kingdomtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §15: the worldsthe-hidden-wordsHW §130: eternal kingdomwill-and-testamentW&T §28: righteous
SE rendered مَلَكُوتَها (malakútahá), خُلِقَ (khuliq) as “King”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §166: His creaturesfire-tabletFire §9: the peoplesgleaningsGWB §176: saintly and pious lifekitab-i-iqanKIQ §121: the first creationprayers-and-meditationsP&M §114: andtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §54: created herthe-hidden-wordsHW §23: thou wast createdepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §105: creation
SE rendered مَلَكُوتَها (malakútahá), خُلِقَ (khuliq), بِحَركةِ (biḥarkh) as “King”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §234: movingfire-tabletFire §27: MovergleaningsGWB §159: agitatekitab-i-iqanKIQ §268: complyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §133: the restlessnesstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §24: standethwill-and-testamentW&T §10: and senselessepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §13: move
SE rendered مَلَكُوتَها (malakútahá), خُلِقَ (khuliq), بِحَركةِ (biḥarkh), إِصْبَعِكَ (ʾiṣbaʿik) as “King”
