The Hidden Words — §88

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 88 of 160.

Source (Arabic)

(١٤) ﴿ ای دوستان ﴾ بجمال فانی از جمال باقی مگذريد و بخاکدان ترابی دل مبنديد *

Shoghi Effendi Translation

(14) O FRIENDS! Abandon not the everlasting beauty for a beauty that must die, and set not your affections on this mortal world of dust.

Translation Notes

دوستان

dústán d-w-s-t → “friends”

literal: friend; friends; friendship

friends 78% loved 11% well-beloved 6% lover 6%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §113: friendship gleaningsGWB §173: his Best-Beloved kitab-i-iqanKIQ §250: Beloved the-hidden-wordsHW §119: man will-and-testamentW&T §23: a true brother epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §59: loved ones gleaningsGWB §417: O friends the-hidden-wordsHW §119: his friend’s

فانی

fání f-n-y → “that must die”

literal: perish; perishing

SE expanded to “that must die”

transient 15% die 15% mortal 15% nothingness 8% surrender 8% perisheth 8% every 8% covetous 8% transitory 8% vanities 8%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §171: pass away gleaningsGWB §104: self-effacement kitab-i-iqanKIQ §214: transient prayers-and-meditationsP&M §746: and to tablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §29: mortal graves the-hidden-wordsHW §147: mortality epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §70: dieth to himself gleaningsGWB §50: expire

از

iz ʾ-z → “for”

literal: from

SE rendered دوستان (dústán), بجمال (bjmál), فانی (fání), از (iz), جمال (jmál), باقی (báqí), مگذريد (mgdhríd), بخاکدان (bkhákdán) as “FRIENDS, a beauty, that must die, for, everlasting beauty, Abandon not, this mortal world of dust”

23 occurrences in corpus

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §128: of kitab-i-iqanKIQ §246: Amongst kitab-i-iqanKIQ §176: from kitab-i-iqanKIQ §176: at

باقی

báqí b-q-y

literal: remaining; remain

SE rendered دوستان (dústán), بجمال (bjmál), فانی (fání), از (iz), جمال (jmál), باقی (báqí), مگذريد (mgdhríd), بخاکدان (bkhákdán), ترابی (trábí), دل (dl) as “FRIENDS, a beauty, that must die, for, everlasting beauty, Abandon not, this mortal world of dust, your affections”

everlasting 25% immortal 17% imperishable 13% incorruptible 8% eternal 8% eternity 8% abiding 8% endure 4% live 4% last 4%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §154: remaining fire-tabletFire §36: is gleaningsGWB §98: celestial kitab-i-iqanKIQ §259: Remnant of God prayers-and-meditationsP&M §668: the endlessness tablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §51: hath remained the-hidden-wordsHW §24: the eternal epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §85: remain

مگذريد

mgdhríd g-dh-r → “abandon not”

literal: pass; place; passed

renounced 23% renounce 17% have 13% abandon 10% pass 10% leave 7% relinquish 7% forsake 7% past 3% before 3%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §247: renounce gleaningsGWB §547: hath kitab-i-iqanKIQ §280: have elapsed prayers-and-meditationsP&M §664: above the-hidden-wordsHW §96: lose not epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §33: past gleaningsGWB §364: relinquish kitab-i-iqanKIQ §48: entered

بخاکدان

bkhákdán kh-ʾ-k-d-ʾ-n → “mortal”

literal: earthly-realm

1 occurrence in corpus

the-hidden-wordsHW §88: this mortal world of dust

ترابی

trábí t-r-b

literal: dust; dust, earth; dust/earth

SE rendered از (iz), جمال (jmál), باقی (báqí), مگذريد (mgdhríd), بخاکدان (bkhákdán), ترابی (trábí), دل (dl), مبنديد (mbndíd) as “for, everlasting beauty, Abandon not, this mortal world of dust, your affections, set not”