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Prayers and Meditations — §801

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 801 of 858.

Source (Arabic)

خَلْقِكَ، فَلَكَ الحَمْدُ يا إِلهِي عَلَى ما قَضَيْتَ بِسُلْطانِ قَضائِكَ وَتَقْضِي بِتَقْدِيرِكَ وَإِمْضائِكَ، أَسْئَلُكَ يا مَحْبُوبِي بِاسْمِكَ الَّذِيْ بِهِ رُفِعَتْ أَعْلامُ أَمْرِكَ وَأَشْرَقَتْ أَنْوارُ وَجْهِكَ بِأَنْ تُنْزِلَ عَلَيَّ وَعَلَى المُخْلِصِينَ مِنْ عِبادِكَ كُلَّ خَيرٍ قَدَّرْتَهُ فِي الأَلْواحِ، ثُمَّ اجْعَلْ لَنا مَقْعَدَ صِدْقٍ عِنْدَكَ يا مَنْ بِيَدِكَ مَلَكُوتُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَإِنَّكَ

Shoghi Effendi Translation

I give Thee thanks, O my God, that Thou hast decided through the power of Thy decree, and wilt continue to decide through Thine irrevocable appointment and purpose. I entreat Thee, O my Beloved, by Thy Name through which Thou didst lift up the ensigns of Thy Cause, and shed the splendors of the light of Thy countenance, to send down upon me and upon such of Thy servants as are wholly devoted to Thee all the good Thou hast ordained in Thy Tablets. Establish us, then, upon the seats of truth in Thy presence, O Thou in Whose hands is the kingdom of all things!

Translation Notes

خَلْقِكَ،
kh-l-q

literal: character; moral traits; disposition; conduct

فَلَكَ
f-l-k

literal: ship; ark; orbit; sphere; heaven

الحَمْدُ
ḥ-m-d → “give Thee thanks”

literal: praise; to praise

يا
y-ʾ → “O”

literal: O; or

إِلهِي
ʾ-l-h → “my God”

literal: God; Allah; deity; Divinity; divine nature; godhood

عَلَيَّ
ʿ-l-w → “upon me” Distinctive

literal: highest; most high; supreme

ما
m-ʾ → “that”

literal: what; which; that which; relative pronoun; interrogative

قَضَيْتَ
q-ḍ-y → “decree” Distinctive

literal: requirement; exigency; what demands or calls for; to require; to necessitate; to demand

بِسُلْطانِ
s-l-ṭ → “through the power” Distinctive

literal: dominion; authority; power; sovereignty; control

بِتَقْدِيرِكَ
q-d-r → “through Thine irrevocable appointment” Distinctive

literal: power; might; decree; measure; worth

وَإِمْضائِكَ،
m-ḍ-y → “passed” Distinctive

literal: pass; execution; past

أَسْئَلُكَ
s-ʾ-l → “I entreat” Distinctive

literal: ask; ask/request; ask/beseech

مَحْبُوبِي
ḥ-b-b → “my Beloved”

literal: love; affection

بِاسْمِكَ
s-m-w → “by Thy Name”

literal: to name, to nominate, to designate, to appoint; name; noun; to name, to appoint, to designate

الَّذِيْ
l-dh-y → “which”

literal: who; which; that which; the one who

بِهِ
b-h → “as”

literal: by it; by him; with it

رُفِعَتْ
r-f-ʿ → “didst lift up” Distinctive

literal: to be raised, elevated, exalted, lifted up

أَعْلامُ
ʿ-l-m → “ensigns”

literal: world; universe; the worlds

أَمْرِكَ
ʾ-m-r → “of Thy Cause”

literal: command; cause; matter; affair

وَأَشْرَقَتْ
sh-r-q → “and shed” Distinctive

literal: radiance; splendor; dawn; illumination

أَنْوارُ
n-w-r → “splendors”

literal: type; kind; species

وَجْهِكَ
w-j-h → “Thy countenance”

literal: face; countenance; direction; aspect

بِأَنْ
ʾ-n-n → “to” Distinctive

literal: that; those; he; she; it

تُنْزِلَ
n-z-l → “send down”

literal: to descend, to be revealed

المُخْلِصِينَ
kh-l-ṣ → “wholly devoted”

literal: sincere; devoted; pure one

مِنْ
m-n → “of”

literal: from; out of; than (preposition and particle)

عِبادِكَ
ʿ-b-d → “Thy servants”

literal: servant; slave; worshipper

كُلَّ
k-l-l → “all”

literal: for us; to us

خَيرٍ
kh-y-r → “good”

literal: goodwill; benevolence; kindness; good; goodness; benefit; better; best

فِي
f-y → “in”

literal: in; in-it; in it

الأَلْواحِ،
l-w-ḥ → “Thy Tablets”

literal: tablet; panel; divine decree; revelation

ثُمَّ
th-m-m → “then”

literal: then; thereafter; next; moreover

اجْعَلْ
j-ʿ-l → “make” Distinctive

literal: group; company; tribe; sort; kind

لَنا
l-n → “neither”

literal: will not

مَقْعَدَ
q-ʿ-d → “upon the seats”

literal: rule; principle; foundation; basis

صِدْقٍ
ṣ-d-q → “of truth”

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

عِنْدَكَ
ʿ-n-d → “in Thy presence”

literal: obstinacy; opposition; enmity

بِيَدِكَ
y-d-y → “in Whose hands”

literal: it is necessary; it behooves; one must

مَلَكُوتُ
m-l-k → “kingdom”

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

شَيْءٍ
sh-y-ʾ → “things”

literal: thing; something; to will; to wish; to desire; to open; to unfold; to reveal

وَإِنَّكَ
ʾ-n-n

literal: that; those; he; she; it

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