Will and Testament — §16
Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 16 of 59.
Source (Persian)
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Translation Notes
This form usually rendered as “loving” (3 occurrences)
SE rendered یاران (yárán), مهربان (mhrbán), از (iz), مفقودی (mfqúdí), مظلوم (mẓlúm), باید (báyd), اغصان (ighṣán) as “friends, loving, of, passing away, wronged, incumbent upon, Aghṣán”
23 occurrences in corpus
This form usually rendered as “passing” (1 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “blessed”, “holy”, “sacred” (44 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “all-glorious”, “most”, “glorious” (62 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “branch” (1 occurrences)
SE rendered توجّه (tújjh), بفرع (bfrʿ), دو (dú), سدره (sdrh), از (iz), دو (dú), شجرۀ (shjrۀ), مقدّسۀ (mqddsۀ), مبارکه (mbárkh), انبات (inbát), از (iz) as “turn, branch branched, two, Lote-Trees, from, sacred, hallowed”
SE rendered از (iz), دو (dú), شجرۀ (shjrۀ), مقدّسۀ (mqddsۀ), مبارکه (mbárkh), انبات (inbát), از (iz), اقتران (iqtrán), دو (dú), فرع (frʿ), دوحۀ (dúḥۀ) as “from, two, sacred, hallowed, union, offshoots, Tree”
This form usually rendered as “union” (1 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “divine”, “all-merciful”, “heavenly” (23 occurrences)
SE rendered فرع (frʿ), دوحۀ (dúḥۀ), رحمانیّه (rḥmánính), بوجود (bújúd), آمده (ámdh), یعنی (yʿní), شوقی (shúqí), افندی (ifndí), نمایند (nmáynd) as “offshoots, Tree, Holiness—as, grown, Shoghi, Effendi—the, will”
SE rendered فرع (frʿ), دوحۀ (dúḥۀ), رحمانیّه (rḥmánính), بوجود (bújúd), آمده (ámdh), یعنی (yʿní), شوقی (shúqí), افندی (ifndí), نمایند (nmáynd), زیرا (zírá), آیت (áyt) as “offshoots, Tree, Holiness—as, grown, Shoghi, Effendi—the, will, sign”
This form usually rendered as “eagerness”, “irrepressible” (2 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “may”, “should”, “quench” (91 occurrences)
SE rendered شوقی (shúqí), افندی (ifndí), نمایند (nmáynd), زیرا (zírá), آیت (áyt), اللّه (al-lh), غصن (ghṣn), ممتاز (mmtáz), ولیّ (wlíl) as “Shoghi, Effendi—the, will, sign, God, branch, chosen, Guardian”
This form usually rendered as “lineal” (1 occurrences)