Prayers and Meditations — §817
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 817 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
ثم يقوم للقنوت ويقول: يَا إِلَهِيْ لَا تُخَيِّبْ مَنْ تَشَبَّثَ بِأَنَامِلِ الرَّجَاءِ بِأَذْيَالِ رَحْمَتِكَ وَفَضْلِكَ يَا أَرْحَمَ الرَّاحِمِيْنَ.
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Then, standing with open hands, palms upward toward the face, let him say:
Disappoint not, O my God, him that hath, with beseeching fingers, clung to the hem of Thy mercy and Thy grace, O Thou Who of those who show mercy art the Most Merciful!
Translation Notes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §262: of Resurrectionfire-tabletFire §48: He hath risen upgleaningsGWB §28: His holy seatkitab-i-ahdAhd §11: to be beneath thatkitab-i-iqanKIQ §33: primarilyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §774: Thy transcendent sovereigntytablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: most exalted Spottablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §44: she rose
SE rendered يقوم (yqúm), للقنوت (llqnút), ويقول (wíqúl), إِلَهِيْ (ʾilahí) as “standing, let him say, my God”
SE expanded to “let him say”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §232: \‘SaygleaningsGWB §499: exclaim: Okitab-i-iqanKIQ §275: I made replyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §691: let him saytablet-of-ahmadAhmad §5: Verilytablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: ‘Call out totablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §31: And thus proclaimedthe-hidden-wordsHW §73: Lord of Utterance
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §206: GodheadgleaningsGWB §391: and pertaineth to God Himselfkitab-i-iqanKIQ §229: divinely-revealedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §371: O my Godthe-hidden-wordsHW §147: celestialwill-and-testamentW&T §53: the Holy Writepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §245: gracegleaningsGWB §148: this God-given
تُخَيِّبْ
literal: disappoint; disappoint, frustrate; disappointed/frustrated
prayers-and-meditationsP&M §857: Shatterprayers-and-meditationsP&M §817: Disappointprayers-and-meditationsP&M §457: the hopesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §415: Disappoint me notprayers-and-meditationsP&M §680: withholdprayers-and-meditationsP&M §405: hath turned awayprayers-and-meditationsP&M §657: disappointestprayers-and-meditationsP&M §846: Wilt Thou shatter
SE expanded to “with beseeching fingers”
SE rendered تَشَبَّثَ (tashabbath), بِأَنَامِلِ (biʾanámil), الرَّجَاءِ (ar-rajáʾ), بِأَذْيَالِ (biʾadhyál), رَحْمَتِكَ (raḥmatik) as “clung, with beseeching fingers, to the hem, Thy mercy”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: my supreme Aspirationfire-tabletFire §4: LonginggleaningsGWB §627: in the hopekitab-i-iqanKIQ §10: our hopes were fixedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §711: the Hopethe-hidden-wordsHW §50: yearnethwill-and-testamentW&T §32: heart’s Desireepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: Desire
SE expanded to “to the hem”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §165: hem of His generosityfire-tabletFire §31: The robegleaningsGWB §223: skirtkitab-i-iqanKIQ §76: robeprayers-and-meditationsP&M §150: to the hemepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §198: unto My hemprayers-and-meditationsP&M §598: to the resplendent hemepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: the hem
mercy 90% all-encompassing 2% transcendent 2% heaven 1% court 1% canopy 1% compassion 1% wondrous 1% mercies 1% tender 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §30: to have mercy upon mefire-tabletFire §30: Thy compassiongleaningsGWB §502: will deal mercilesslykitab-i-ahdAhd §8: blessingskitab-i-iqanKIQ §25: infinite mercyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §247: of Thy wondrous Mercytablet-of-ahmadAhmad §15: a mercythe-hidden-wordsHW §68: By My mercy
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §169: a token of His gracegleaningsGWB §621: upon His grace and bountykitab-i-ahdAhd §11: Graciouskitab-i-iqanKIQ §25: its showering bountiesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §180: through Thy gracetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §9: bountiesthe-hidden-wordsHW §1: the garmentwill-and-testamentW&T §23: virtues
