Prayers and Meditations — §775
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 775 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
ما أَعْلى قُدْرَتَكَ وَما أَعْلى سَلْطَنَتَكَ وَما أَعْلى اقْتِدارَكَ وَما أَعْلى عَظَمَتَكَ وَما أَعْلى كِبْرِيائَكَ الَّذِيْ ظَهَرَ مِنْهُ وَأَعْطَيْتَهُ بِجُودِكَ وَكَرَمِك، فَيا إِلهِي أَشْهَدُ بِأَنَّ بِهِ ظَهَرَتْ آياتُكَ الكُبْرى وَسَبَقَتْ رَحْمَتُكَ الأَشْياءَ لَوْلاهُ ما هَدَرَتِ الوَرْقاءُ وَما غَنَّ عَنْدَلِيْبُ السَّنآءِ فِي جَبَروتِ القَضَاءِ،
Shoghi Effendi Translation
How great is Thy power! How exalted Thy sovereignty! How lofty Thy might! How excellent Thy majesty! How supreme is Thy grandeur—a grandeur which He Who is Thy Manifestation hath made known and wherewith Thou hast invested Him as a sign of Thy generosity and bountiful favor. I bear witness, O my God, that through Him Thy most resplendent signs have been uncovered, and Thy mercy hath encompassed the entire creation. But for Him, how could the Celestial Dove have uttered its songs or the Heavenly Nightingale, according to the decree of God, have warbled its melody?
Translation Notes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §11: on highfire-tabletFire §42: highestgleaningsGWB §497: how very greatkitab-i-iqanKIQ §32: exalted areprayers-and-meditationsP&M §775: How supremetablet-of-carmelCarmel §2: raising highthe-hidden-wordsHW §92: the realm on highwill-and-testamentW&T §4: Exalted One
power 44% might 24% through 13% almighty 5% strength 4% omnipotence 3% whose 3% authority 2% greatness 1% transcendent 1%
sovereignty 74% through 8% power 6% transcendent 2% kingship 2% own 2% rejected 2% sovereign 2% whose 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §91: by the power of His mightgleaningsGWB §300: through the power of His sovereign mightkitab-i-iqanKIQ §25: of the Kingprayers-and-meditationsP&M §234: transcendenttablet-of-ahmadAhmad §1: is the Kingthe-hidden-wordsHW §98: chiefwill-and-testamentW&T §41: warrantepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §145: the higher powers
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §106: sovereigngleaningsGWB §587: impenetrablekitab-i-ahdAhd §7: categoricallykitab-i-iqanKIQ §117: overpowering majestyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §134: How greatthe-hidden-wordsHW §21: plenteouswill-and-testamentW&T §7: atrociousepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §56: greatest
This form usually rendered as “hath”, “appeared”, “manifested” (106 occurrences)
hath 44% appeared 16% manifested 11% revealed 8% made 5% have 5% uncovered 5% come 3% defender 2% perpetrated 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §165: found outfire-tabletFire §38: prevailgleaningsGWB §95: be shorn ofkitab-i-ahdAhd §3: demonstratingkitab-i-iqanKIQ §272: there shall come forthprayers-and-meditationsP&M §328: them who have manifestedtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §8: to assistthe-hidden-wordsHW §52: outwardly it
SE expanded to “hast invested Him”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: hast given megleaningsGWB §355: unfoldedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §23: giftprayers-and-meditationsP&M §492: Thou didst endow themepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: of Thy favorgleaningsGWB §479: He bestowethkitab-i-iqanKIQ §31: shall not giveprayers-and-meditationsP&M §775: hast invested
بِجُودِكَ
literal: generosity; bounty; generosity, bounty
This form usually rendered as “bounty”, “bounteousness”, “favor” (63 occurrences)
SE expanded to “sign of Thy generosity”
bounty 43% bounteousness 10% favor 9% through 9% grace 9% generosity 9% bountiful 5% graciousness 3% bestowal 2% never-failing 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §57: bountyfire-tabletFire §34: downpourgleaningsGWB §569: Thy favorkitab-i-iqanKIQ §56: bountiful graceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §116: as a token of Thy bountythe-hidden-wordsHW §104: My loving-kindnessepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §165: of His bountyfire-tabletFire §34: Giver
SE expanded to “and bountiful favor”
bounty 46% generosity 23% favor 8% bountiful 8% grace 5% bestowal 3% bounteousness 3% through 3% thou 3%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §168: Divinityfire-tabletFire §41: after GodgleaningsGWB §70: By the righteousness of the onekitab-i-ahdAhd §10: the divine Testatorkitab-i-iqanKIQ §102: Supreme Beingprayers-and-meditationsP&M §821: art Godtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §31: “By the Lordthe-hidden-wordsHW §154: heaven
SE expanded to “I bear witness”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §245: beareth Me witnessfire-tabletFire §48: the placegleaningsGWB §87: Whose glory none can mistakekitab-i-ahdAhd §3: appearethkitab-i-iqanKIQ §240: observestprayers-and-meditationsP&M §790: and would discovertablet-of-ahmadAhmad §12: as thou also dost witnessthe-hidden-wordsHW §47: to shed thy life-blood on the dust, a martyr
SE expanded to “most resplendent signs”
signs 55% utterances 18% verses 8% most 6% utterance 3% words 3% sweetness 3% repudiated 2% through 2% truth 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §103: of signsfire-tabletFire §26: utterancegleaningsGWB §151: the words of God thatkitab-i-iqanKIQ §146: scripturesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §450: of the truth of the verses which have descended upon Theetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §7: by whatthe-hidden-wordsHW §147: wert thou to attain theretowill-and-testamentW&T §5: the Holy Text
وَسَبَقَتْ
literal: precede; preceded; precedence
SE expanded to “hath encompassed the entire creation”
hath 44% surpassed 22% preceded 6% surpasseth 6% encompasseth 6% excelled 3% pervaded 3% permeated 3% surpass 3% grasp 3%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §61: surpassinggleaningsGWB §200: can ever excel themkitab-i-iqanKIQ §226: surpassprayers-and-meditationsP&M §748: preceded methe-hidden-wordsHW §52: Hasten thereuntoepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §214: precededgleaningsGWB §257: surpassethkitab-i-iqanKIQ §188: may encompass
mercy 90% transcendent 2% shadowing 2% all-encompassing 2% compassion 1% merciful 1% wondrous 1% virtue 1% mercies 1% tender 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §11: Most Compassionatefire-tabletFire §30: Thy compassiongleaningsGWB §55: He Who is the All-Mercifulkitab-i-ahdAhd §8: blessingskitab-i-iqanKIQ §14: of His loving-kindnessprayers-and-meditationsP&M §793: compassiontablet-of-ahmadAhmad §15: a mercytablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: in token of His mercy
SE rendered وَسَبَقَتْ (wasabaqat), رَحْمَتُكَ (raḥmatuk), الأَشْياءَ (ash-shyáʾ), لَوْلاهُ (lawláh), هَدَرَتِ (hadarat) as “hath encompassed the entire creation, mercy, But for Him, have uttered”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §226: as He pleasethgleaningsGWB §249: recompensekitab-i-iqanKIQ §184: pleaseth,”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §231: of creationtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §6: desirethtablet-of-carmelCarmel §2: created things.’the-hidden-wordsHW §49: everythingwill-and-testamentW&T §5: this one, unworthy though he be
This form usually rendered as “have” (1 occurrences)
SE expanded to “the Celestial Dove”
1 occurrence in corpus
3 occurrences in corpus
SE rendered غَنَّ (ghann), عَنْدَلِيْبُ (ʿandalíb), السَّنآءِ (as-sanáʾ), جَبَروتِ (jabarút), القَضَاءِ، (al-qaḍáʾi،) as “have warbled, the Heavenly Nightingale, decree of God”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §251: yearsgleaningsGWB §549: however longprayers-and-meditationsP&M §361: augusttablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §43: grandeurthe-hidden-wordsHW §64: enlightenmentepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §205: In the yeargleaningsGWB §588: Lightprayers-and-meditationsP&M §308: most exalted
SE rendered عَنْدَلِيْبُ (ʿandalíb), السَّنآءِ (as-sanáʾ), جَبَروتِ (jabarút), القَضَاءِ، (al-qaḍáʾi،) as “the Heavenly Nightingale, decree of God”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §168: He Who is the All-Compellingfire-tabletFire §37: the eternal realmgleaningsGWB §521: kingdomkitab-i-iqanKIQ §98: tyrannyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §312: and the duration of the heaven of Thine omnipotencetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §32: highest heaventhe-hidden-wordsHW §104: My everlasting dominionwill-and-testamentW&T §38: of necessity prompteth
SE expanded to “decree of God”
decree 36% irrevocable 18% god’s 9% what 9% destiny 5% divine 5% decreed 5% ruling 5% tribulations 5% judgment 5%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §193: been fulfilledfire-tabletFire §29: of destinygleaningsGWB §580: Him Who is the Supreme Ordainerkitab-i-ahdAhd §10: is endedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §12: was endedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §425: Thy judgmentthe-hidden-wordsHW §19: have ordainedwill-and-testamentW&T §14: requirement
