Prayers and Meditations — §816
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 816 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
ثم يركع ويقول: سُبْحَانَكَ عَنْ ذِكْرِيْ وَذِكْرِ دُوْنِيْ وَوَصْفِيْ وَوَصْفِ مَنْ فِيْ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرَضِيْنَ.
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Exalted
art Thou above my praise and the praise of anyone beside me, above my description and the description of all who are in heaven and all who are on earth!
Translation Notes
SE rendered يركع (yrkʿ), ويقول (wíqúl), سُبْحَانَكَ (subḥának), ذِكْرِيْ (dhikrí) as “Exalted, my praise”
3 occurrences in corpus
SE rendered ويقول (wíqúl), سُبْحَانَكَ (subḥának), ذِكْرِيْ (dhikrí) as “Exalted, my praise”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §165: talesgleaningsGWB §575: his speechkitab-i-iqanKIQ §66: concerning His wordsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §278: entreatethtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §5: Verilytablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: ‘Call out totablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §34: Andthe-hidden-wordsHW §153: by words
This form usually rendered as “glorified”, “lauded”, “praised” (181 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §115: the mistsgleaningsGWB §122: praisekitab-i-iqanKIQ §217: hymns of glory and praiseprayers-and-meditationsP&M §315: All praise be to Theetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §11: my Lordthe-hidden-wordsHW §89: from on highepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §265: \‘GlorifiedgleaningsGWB §387: Immeasurably exalted
remembrance 17% mention 17% praise 17% warning 8% account 8% give 8% remember 8% remembered 8% mentioned 8%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §186: for ThygleaningsGWB §247: as a warningkitab-i-ahdAhd §4: reckonedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §97: made mentionprayers-and-meditationsP&M §477: what I have spokentablet-of-ahmadAhmad §6: utter His calltablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: proclaimeththe-hidden-wordsHW §5: name thy name
SE expanded to “of anyone beside me”
special 50% description 50%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: the descriptiongleaningsGWB §94: the bearerskitab-i-iqanKIQ §86: human traitsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §331: descriptionepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §168: norgleaningsGWB §213: and attributeskitab-i-iqanKIQ §87: noble traitsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §843: Thou didst Thyself describe
