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Gleanings — §111

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 111 of 729.

Source (Arabic)

واقع گشته از قبل بکمال تصريح خبر داده و مع آنکه از اهل علم نبوده و بمدارس نرفته و مباحث نديده فنون و علوم ربّانيّه بمثابه غيث هاطل ما بين عباد نازل و جاری شده چگونه بر اعراض و اعتراض قيام نمودند اکثر ايّام در دست اعداء مبتلا و در آخر بظلم مبين در اين سجن عظيم ساکن انشاء اللّه ببصر حديد و قلب منير در آنچه از قبل و بعد ظاهر شده نظر نمائی و تفکّر کنی تا آگاه شوی بر آنچه اليوم اکثر خلق از آن غافلند انشاء اللّه از نفحات ايّام الهی محروم نمانی و از فيوضات نامتناهيه ممنوع نشوی از عنايت حق از بحر اعظم که اليوم باسم مالک قدم در عالم ظاهر است بياشامی و بر امر اللّه مثل جبل ثابت و راسخ و

Shoghi Effendi Translation

Consider this wronged One. Though the clearest proofs attest the truth of His Cause; though the prophecies He, in an unmistakable language, hath made have been fulfilled; though, in spite of His not being accounted among the learned, His being unschooled and inexperienced in the disputations current among the divines, He hath rained upon men the showers of His manifold and Divinely inspired knowledge; yet, behold how this generation hath rejected His authority, and rebelled against Him! He hath, during the greater part of His life, been sore-tried in the clutches of His enemies. His sufferings have now reached their culmination in this afflictive Prison, into which His oppressors have so unjustly thrown Him. God grant that, with a penetrating vision and radiant heart, thou mayest observe the things that have come to pass and are now happening, and, pondering them in thine heart, mayest recognize that which most men have, in this Day, failed to perceive. Please God, He may enable thee to inhale the sweet fragrance of His Day, to partake of the limitless effusions of His grace, to quaff thy fill, through His gracious favor, from the most great Ocean that surgeth in this Day in the name of the Ancient King, and to remain firm and immovable as the mountain in His Cause.

Translation Notes

از
iz ʾ-z

literal: from

SE rendered واقع (wáqʿ)گشته (gshth)از (iz)بکمال (bkmál)تصريح (tṣríḥ)خبر (khbr)داده (dádh) as “come to pass, have been, in an unmistakable language, prophecies, hath made”

23 occurrences in corpus

تصريح
tṣríḥ ṣ-r-ḥ

literal: explicit; clear, explicit; explicit statement

SE rendered واقع (wáqʿ)گشته (gshth)از (iz)بکمال (bkmál)تصريح (tṣríḥ)خبر (khbr)داده (dádh)آنکه (ánkh)از (iz)اهل (ihl)علم (ʿlm) as “come to pass, have been, in an unmistakable language, prophecies, hath made, He, the learned, divines”

explicit 25% explicitly 25% direct 25% clear 25%
نرفته
nrfth r-f-t

literal: go; to go; gone

SE rendered اهل (ihl)علم (ʿlm)نبوده (nbúdh)بمدارس (bmdárs)نرفته (nrfth)مباحث (mbáḥth)نديده (ndídh) as “the learned, divines, not being accounted, unschooled, the disputations, inexperienced”

fled 10% deal 10% repaired 10% gone 10% joined 10% left 10% visited 10% bearer 10% manner 10% act 10%
فنون
fnún f-n-n

literal: art

SE rendered بمدارس (bmdárs)نرفته (nrfth)مباحث (mbáḥth)نديده (ndídh)فنون (fnún)علوم (ʿlúm)ربّانيّه (rbbánính)بمثابه (bmthábh)غيث (ghíth) as “unschooled, the disputations, inexperienced, Consider, showers”

“arts 50% arts 50%
ربّانيّه
rbbánính r-b-b

literal: Lord; lord; divine

SE rendered مباحث (mbáḥth)نديده (ndídh)فنون (fnún)علوم (ʿlúm)ربّانيّه (rbbánính)بمثابه (bmthábh)غيث (ghíth)هاطل (háṭl)عباد (ʿbád) as “the disputations, inexperienced, Consider, showers, rained, men”

غيث

literal: rain; rain/abundance

showers 75% rain 25%
نازل
názl n-z-l

literal: send down; descending; descend

SE rendered بمثابه (bmthábh)غيث (ghíth)هاطل (háṭl)عباد (ʿbád)نازل (názl)جاری (járí)چگونه (chgúnh)بر (br)اعراض (iʿráḍ) as “Consider, showers, rained, men, how, upon, rejected”

revealed 45% sent 27% have 7% hath 7% descended 6% down 1% flow 1% prophesied 1% disclosed 1% reveal 1%
جاری
járí j-r-y

literal: flowing; flow; to flow

SE rendered غيث (ghíth)هاطل (háṭl)عباد (ʿbád)نازل (názl)جاری (járí)چگونه (chgúnh)بر (br)اعراض (iʿráḍ)اعتراض (iʿtráḍ) as “showers, rained, men, how, upon, rejected, rebelled”

have 13% floweth 13% streamed 13% hath 13% streaming 13% stream 13% flowed 6% flowing 6% gush 6% uttered 6%
قيام
qíám q-w-m

literal: station; people; place

SE rendered چگونه (chgúnh)بر (br)اعراض (iʿráḍ)اعتراض (iʿtráḍ)قيام (qíám)نمودند (nmúdnd)اکثر (ikthr)ايّام (iyyám)دست (dst)اعداء (iʿdáʾ) as “how, upon, rejected, rebelled, hath, greater part, life, clutches, enemies”

ساکن
sákn s-k-n

literal: dwelling; dwell

SE rendered آخر (ákhr)بظلم (bẓlm)مبين (mbín)سجن (sjn)عظيم (ʿẓím)ساکن (sákn)انشاء (insháʾ)اللّه (al-lh)ببصر (bbṣr)حديد (ḥdíd)قلب (qlb) as “culmination, wronged One, afflictive, Prison, great, Please God, God grant, penetrating vision, radiant heart”

abide 29% abiding 14% silenced 7% still 7% muteness 7% now 7% have 7% occupy 7% dwelling 7% tranquil 7%
حديد
ḥdíd ḥ-d-d

literal: limit; limited; limits

SE rendered عظيم (ʿẓím)ساکن (sákn)انشاء (insháʾ)اللّه (al-lh)ببصر (bbṣr)حديد (ḥdíd)قلب (qlb)منير (mnír)آنچه (ánchh)از (iz) as “great, Please God, God grant, penetrating vision, radiant heart, He”

sharp 22% discernment 22% chains 22% keen 11% steel 11% discerning 11%
منير
mnír n-w-r

literal: light; lights; luminous

SE rendered انشاء (insháʾ)اللّه (al-lh)ببصر (bbṣr)حديد (ḥdíd)قلب (qlb)منير (mnír)آنچه (ánchh)از (iz)ظاهر (ẓáhr) as “Please God, God grant, penetrating vision, radiant heart, He, happening”

شوی
shúy sh-d-n

literal: become; to become; became

SE rendered نظر (nẓr)نمائی (nmáʾí)تفکّر (tfkkr)کنی (kní)آگاه (ágáh)شوی (shúy)بر (br)آنچه (ánchh)اليوم (al-yúm)اکثر (ikthr)خلق (khlq)از (iz) as “observe, may, pondering, hath, recognize, He, this Day, most, men”

soar 33% wilt 33% thou 33%
محروم
mḥrúm ḥ-r-m

literal: deprived; deprive

SE rendered نفحات (nfḥát)ايّام (iyyám)الهی (al-hí)محروم (mḥrúm)نمانی (nmání)از (iz)فيوضات (fíwḍát)نامتناهيه (námtnáhíh) as “fragrance, Day, remain, effusions, limitless”

ممنوع
mmnúʿ m-n-ʿ

literal: prevent; prevented; prevention

SE rendered نمانی (nmání)از (iz)فيوضات (fíwḍát)نامتناهيه (námtnáhíh)ممنوع (mmnúʿ)نشوی (nshúy)از (iz)عنايت (ʿnáyt)حق (ḥq)از (iz)بحر (bḥr) as “remain, effusions, limitless, been, gracious favor, truth, Ocean”

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