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Gleanings — §145

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 145 of 729.

Source (Arabic)

پیمبران چون پزشگانند که بپرورش گیتی و کسان آن پرداخته‌اند تا بدرمان یگانگی بیماری بیگانگیرا چاره نمایند در کردار و رفتار پزشگ جای گفتار نه زیرا که او بر چگونگی کالبد و بیماریهای آن آگاه است و هرگز مرغ بینش مردمان زمین بفراز آسمان دانش او نرسد پس اگر رفتار امروز پزشگ را با گذشته یکسان نه‌بینند جای گفتار نه چه که هر روز بیمار را روش جداگانه سزاوار و همچنین پیمبران یزدان هرگاه که جهانرا بخورشید تابان دانش درخشان نمودند بهر چه سزاوار آن روز بود مردم را بسوی خداوند یکتا خواندند و آنها را از تیرگی نادانی بروشنائی دانائی راه نمودند پس باید دیدهٴ مردم دانا بر راز درون ایشان نگران باشد چه که همگی را خواست یکی بوده و آن راهنمائی گم‌گشتگان و آسودگی درماندگان است... مردمانرا بیماری فراگرفته بکوشید تا آنها را بآن درمان که ساختهٴ دست توانای پزشگ یزدان است رهائی دهید

Shoghi Effendi Translation

The Prophets of God should be regarded as physicians whose task is to foster the well-being of the world and its peoples, that, through the spirit of oneness, they may heal the sickness of a divided humanity. To none is given the right to question their words or disparage their conduct, for they are the only ones who can claim to have understood the patient and to have correctly diagnosed its ailments. No man, however acute his perception, can ever hope to reach the heights which the wisdom and understanding of the Divine Physician have attained. Little wonder, then, if the treatment prescribed by the physician in this day should not be found to be identical with that which he prescribed before. How could it be otherwise when the ills affecting the sufferer necessitate at every stage of his sickness a special remedy? In like manner, every time the Prophets of God have illumined the world with the resplendent radiance of the Daystar of Divine knowledge, they have invariably summoned its peoples to embrace the light of God through such means as best befitted the exigencies of the age in which they appeared. They were thus able to scatter the darkness of ignorance, and to shed upon the world the glory of their own knowledge. It is towards the inmost essence of these Prophets, therefore, that the eye of every man of discernment must be directed, inasmuch as their one and only purpose hath always been to guide the erring, and give peace to the afflicted.… These are not days of prosperity and triumph. The whole of mankind is in the grip of manifold ills. Strive, therefore, to save its life through the wholesome medicine which the almighty hand of the unerring Physician hath prepared.

Translation Notes

پیمبران

literal: prophets; prophet

SE expanded to “Prophets of God”

prophets 67% bearers 33%
پزشگانند
pzshgánnd pzshgánnd → “should”

literal: physicians

1 occurrence in corpus

بپرورش
bprúrsh bprúrsh → “foster”

literal: to-nurturing

1 occurrence in corpus

کسان
ksán k-s-ʾ-n

literal: people

SE rendered چون (chún), پزشگانند (pzshgánnd), بپرورش (bprúrsh), گیتی (gítí), کسان (ksán), پرداخته‌اند (prdákhth‌ánd), بدرمان (bdrmán), یگانگی (ygángí) as “as, physicians, foster, world and its peoples, heal, oneness”

1 occurrence in corpus

پرداخته‌اند
prdákhth‌ánd prdákhtn

literal: engage; engage in, indulge; engaged

SE rendered بپرورش (bprúrsh), گیتی (gítí), کسان (ksán), پرداخته‌اند (prdákhth‌ánd), بدرمان (bdrmán), یگانگی (ygángí), بیماری (bímárí) as “foster, world and its peoples, heal, oneness, sickness”

indulge 17% occupied 17% engaged 17% am 17% hide 17% engage 17%
بدرمان
bdrmán d-r-m → “heal”

literal: remedy; treatment

heal 50% remedy 50%
بیگانگیرا
bígángírá bígángírá → “divided”

literal: alienation

1 occurrence in corpus

چاره
chárh chárh

literal: remedy; remedy, alternative

SE rendered بدرمان (bdrmán), یگانگی (ygángí), بیماری (bímárí), بیگانگیرا (bígángírá), چاره (chárh), نمایند (nmáynd), کردار (krdár) as “heal, oneness, sickness, a divided humanity, conduct”

پزشگ

literal: physician

3 occurrences in corpus

چگونگی
chgúngí chgúngí

literal: condition

SE rendered گفتار (gftár), نه (nh), زیرا (zírá), بر (br), چگونگی (chgúngí), کالبد (kálbd), بیماریهای (bímáríháy), آگاه (ágáh) as “words, ailments, understood”

1 occurrence in corpus

کالبد
kálbd k-l-b-d

literal: body, form; body, form, mold

SE rendered گفتار (gftár), نه (nh), زیرا (zírá), بر (br), چگونگی (chgúngí), کالبد (kálbd), بیماریهای (bímáríháy), آگاه (ágáh) as “words, ailments, understood”

human 50% body 50%
مرغ
mrgh m-r-gh

literal: bird

SE rendered بیماریهای (bímáríháy), آگاه (ágáh), هرگز (hrgz), مرغ (mrgh), بینش (bínsh), مردمان (mrdmán), زمین (zmín), بفراز (bfráz), آسمان (ásmán) as “ailments, understood, ever, perception, man, reach, heights”

1 occurrence in corpus

زمین
zmín zmín

literal: earth; ground

SE rendered هرگز (hrgz), مرغ (mrgh), بینش (bínsh), مردمان (mrdmán), زمین (zmín), بفراز (bfráz), آسمان (ásmán), دانش (dánsh), نرسد (nrsd) as “ever, perception, man, reach, heights, wisdom and understanding, attained”

earth 69% soil 8% dust 8% world 8% underground 8%
نه‌بینند
nh‌bínnd b-y-n

literal: between; utterance; clear

SE rendered امروز (imrúz), پزشگ (pzshg), گذشته (gdhshth), یکسان (yksán), نه‌بینند (nh‌bínnd), جای (jáy), گفتار (gftár), نه (nh), چه (chh), هر (hr), روز (rúz) as “day, before, identical, every, sickness”

یزدان
yzdán yzdán

literal: god

SE rendered روش (rúsh), جداگانه (jdágánh), سزاوار (száwár), همچنین (hmchnín), پیمبران (pímbrán), یزدان (yzdán), هرگاه (hrgáh), جهانرا (jhánrá), بخورشید (bkhúrshíd), تابان (tábán) as “special, necessitate, like, Prophets of God, world, Daystar, illumined”

god 60% god’s 20% unerring 20%
جهانرا
jhánrá j-h-ʾ-n → “world”

literal: world

1 occurrence in corpus

درخشان
drkhshán d-r-kh → “illumined”

literal: radiant

1 occurrence in corpus

خواندند
khúándnd khúándn → “summoning” Distinctive

literal: call; read; call, summon

This form usually rendered as “summoned” (1 occurrences)

summoning 43% read 14% regarded 14% summoned 14% cry 14%
دیدهٴ
dídhٴ d-y-d → “seen” Distinctive

literal: see; eye; to see

This form usually rendered as “eye” (1 occurrences)

seen 20% eye 20% naught 20% hast 20% witnessed 20%
دانا
dáná dáná → “knowledge” Distinctive

literal: knowing/wise; knowledge; knowing

This form usually rendered as “discernment”, “all-knowing”, “infallible” (4 occurrences)

درون
drún drún → “inmost”

literal: inside

1 occurrence in corpus

راهنمائی
ráhnmáʾí r-h-n-m-ʾ

literal: guidance

SE rendered خواست (khúást), یکی (ykí), راهنمائی (ráhnmáʾí), گم‌گشتگان (gm‌gshtgán), آسودگی (ásúdgí), درماندگان (drmándgán) as “purpose, one, erring, peace, afflicted.…”

1 occurrence in corpus

گم‌گشتگان
gm‌gshtgán gmgshtgán → “erring”

literal: lost wanderer; the lost ones; wanderers

erring 67% languish 33%
آسودگی
ásúdgí isúdgí → “escaped”

literal: peace; rest

escaped 50% give 50%
درماندگان

literal: afflicted

1 occurrence in corpus

درمان
drmán drmán → “remedy”

literal: remedy; remedy/cure; remedy/treatment

remedy 67% medicine 33%
ساختهٴ
sákhthٴ s-ʾ-kh-t → “prepared”

literal: made

1 occurrence in corpus

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