Will and Testament — §43

Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 43 of 59.

Source (Persian)

مقصود این است که یاران عهد و پیمان باید بیدار باشند که مبادا بعد از اینمظلوم این شخص محرّک متحرّک رخنه نماید و سرّاً القای شبهات و فساد کند و بکلّی امر اللّه را از ریشه براندازد البتّه صد البتّه از معاشرت او احتراز نمائید و دقّت نمائید و متوجّه باشید و جستجو و فحص نمائید که اگر نفسی را سرّاً جهراً با او ادنی مناسبتی آنشخص را نیز از میان خودتان خارج کنید زیرا فساد و فتن میشود

Shoghi Effendi Translation

My purpose is, however, to show that it is incumbent upon the friends that are fast and firm in the Covenant and Testament to be ever wakeful lest after this wronged one is gone this alert and active worker of mischief may cause disruption, privily sow the seeds of doubt and sedition and utterly root out the Cause of God. A thousand times shun his company. Take heed and be on your guard. Watch and examine; should anyone, openly or privily, have the least connection with him, cast him out from your midst, for he will surely cause disruption and mischief.

Translation Notes

مقصود

q-ṣ-d → “purpose”

literal: intention; purpose; aim; goal; to seek; to direct oneself

این

ʾ-y-n → “this”

literal: this; these

است

b-w-d → “is”

literal: to be; are (third person plural present copula)

که

k-h → “that”

literal: that; who; who, that

یاران

y-ʾ-r → “friends”

literal: friend; companion; helper; help; aid; grace

عهد

ʿ-h-d → “Covenant”

literal: covenant; testament; promise; command

پیمان

p-y-m → “Testament”

literal: covenant; bond; pledge; testament; to measure; to traverse; to pass

باید

b-y-d → “incumbent”

literal: by hand; with hands; eternal; perpetual; everlasting

مبادا

b-d-w → “lest”

literal: lest; perhaps; in order that not

بعد

b-ʿ-d → “after”

literal: after; behind; distance

از

ʾ-z → “of”

literal: from

اینمظلوم

ẓ-l-m → “this wronged one”

literal: wrongedness, oppression, meekness; state of being wronged or oppressed

شخص

sh-kh-ṣ → “man”

literal: person, individual, self; movement, stirring

محرّک

ḥ-r-k → “move”

literal: movement; motion; trembling; activity; حراک is unusual; possible typo or dialectal. Standard Arabic would be حرك or اهتزاز for ‘trembling’

متحرّک

ḥ-r-k → “move” Distinctive

literal: movement; motion; trembling; activity; حراک is unusual; possible typo or dialectal. Standard Arabic would be حرك or اهتزاز for ‘trembling’

رخنه

r-kh-n → “disruption”

literal: breach; aperture; opening; gap; chink

نماید

n-m-ʾ → “may”

literal: to show, display, exhibit; to grow, develop

سرّاً

s-r-r → “privily” Distinctive

literal: to proclaim openly; manifest; public

القای

l-q-y → “Presence”

literal: suggestion; instilling; casting; throwing

شبهات

sh-b-h → “doubt”

literal: doubt; uncertainty; suspicion; resemblance; semblance

فساد

f-s-d → “mischief”

literal: corruption; ruin; discord; mischief; decay

کند

k-r-d

literal: to do; to make; to act; to dig, excavate; slow

بکلّی

k-l-l → “utterly”

literal: all; every; whole; entirety; entire; completely

امر

ʾ-m-r → “Cause”

literal: command; cause; matter; affair; Cause (of God); to command; to order

اللّه

ʾ-l-h → “God”

literal: God; Allah; deity; Divinity; divine nature; godhood

را

r-ʾ-ʾ

literal: object marker; object-marker; to

ریشه

r-y-sh → “root”

literal: wept; cried; lamented

براندازد

ʾ-n-d-z

literal: to cast down; to overthrow; to uproot

البتّه

b-t-t → “assuredly”

literal: by, with, through (preposition)

صد

ṣ-d → “hundred”

literal: hundred

معاشرت

ʿ-sh-r → “associated”

literal: association; companionship; social interaction

او

h-w-w → “his”

literal: he; it (third person pronoun); refuge; shelter; dwelling place; abode; lamentation, cry, woe; melody, song

احتراز

ḥ-r-z → “repudiated”

literal: avoidance; caution; protection; guard

دقّت

d-q-q

literal: attention; heed; care; precision

متوجّه

w-j-h → “on your guard” Distinctive

literal: face; countenance; direction; aspect

جستجو

j-s-t → “have clung” Distinctive

literal: to search; to spy; investigation

فحص

f-ḥ-ṣ → “investigation” Distinctive

literal: examination; investigation; scrutiny

اگر

ʾ-g-r → “were they”

literal: although; even if; though; notwithstanding

نفسی

n-f-s → “anyone”

literal: self; soul; psyche; person; essence

جهراً

j-h-r → “openly”

literal: to proclaim openly; manifest; public

با

b-ʾ-ʾ → “with”

literal: to; with; by

ادنی

d-n-w → “least”

literal: this world; earthly life; temporal realm; lowest; base; mean; of little account; to know; to be acquainted with

مناسبتی

n-s-b → “relationship” Distinctive

literal: relation; relationship; connection; attribution; proportion

نیز

n-y-z

literal: also; likewise; and; as well; too

میان

m-y-n → “midst”

literal: between; among; amid; in the midst of

خودتان

kh-w-d → “their own”

literal: self; himself; herself; itself; own

خارج

kh-r-j → “out from” Distinctive

literal: bringing out, taking out, expulsion, extraction

زیرا

z-y-r → “inasmuch as”

literal: because; since; for; inasmuch as

فتن

f-t-n → “sedition”

literal: trial; tribulation; temptation; sedition; discord; strife

میشود

sh-w-d

literal: perhaps, perchance, haply, maybe, possibly; to become; to be; to happen; to occur

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