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
This form usually rendered as “arise”, “may”, “shall” (16 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §30: with such firm convictionfire-tabletFire §48: He hath risen upgleaningsGWB §718: these peoplekitab-i-ahdAhd §13: your stationkitab-i-iqanKIQ §118: Day of Judgmentprayers-and-meditationsP&M §38: steadfast in faithtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §9: so steadfasttablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §47: her own station
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 §112: the things which He saidgleaningsGWB §219: spokenkitab-i-ahdAhd §14: speakethkitab-i-iqanKIQ §89: discoursesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §815: and say:tablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: We made replytablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §34: And commanded herthe-hidden-wordsHW §153: by words
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §125: I adjure theefire-tabletFire §41: after GodgleaningsGWB §385: with the Lordkitab-i-ahdAhd §10: the divine Testatorkitab-i-iqanKIQ §36: Truthprayers-and-meditationsP&M §188: O my God—hathtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §31: “By the Lordthe-hidden-wordsHW §154: heaven
prayers-and-meditationsP&M §845: withholdwill-and-testamentW&T §54: lost their causeprayers-and-meditationsP&M §846: Wilt Thou shatterprayers-and-meditationsP&M §578: as one disappointedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §441: break not our hopesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §415: Disappoint me notprayers-and-meditationsP&M §449: Cast me notprayers-and-meditationsP&M §680: not to withhold from me
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”
hope 41% desire 14% longing 9% ardent 9% may 5% suppliant 5% beholdest 5% aspiration 5% one 5% confidence 5%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: my supreme Aspirationfire-tabletFire §4: LonginggleaningsGWB §629: may obtainkitab-i-iqanKIQ §10: our hopes were fixedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §405: my heart’s Desirethe-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: unto the hemfire-tabletFire §31: The robegleaningsGWB §493: the hem of Ourkitab-i-iqanKIQ §76: robeprayers-and-meditationsP&M §771: the hem of the robethe-hidden-wordsHW §77: holdepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §107: the hem of His robegleaningsGWB §647: to the hem of the Robe
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 §153: mercyfire-tabletFire §30: Thy compassiongleaningsGWB §519: Have mercykitab-i-ahdAhd §8: blessingskitab-i-iqanKIQ §153: heavenlyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §39: Thine all-encompassing mercytablet-of-ahmadAhmad §15: a mercytablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: in token of His mercy
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §11: gracegleaningsGWB §464: and of His gracekitab-i-ahdAhd §11: Graciouskitab-i-iqanKIQ §240: so great an outpouring of bountyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §180: through Thy gracetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §15: a bountythe-hidden-wordsHW §1: as a token of gracewill-and-testamentW&T §23: virtues
