Gleanings — §380

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 380 of 729.

Source (Arabic)

توحید آن است که در کلّ آیهٔ تجلّی حقّ مشاهده کنند نه آنکه خلق را حقّ دانند

Shoghi Effendi Translation

He is really a believer in the Unity of God who recognizeth in each and every created thing the sign of the revelation of Him Who is the Eternal Truth, and not he who maintaineth that the creature is indistinguishable from the Creator.

Translation Notes

توحید

túḥíd w-ḥ-d → “in the unity of god”

literal: unity; one; oneness

SE expanded to “in the Unity of God”

unity 49% divine 23% oneness 11% belief 5% essential 3% tawhid 2% all 2% acknowledge 2% conception 2% mystery 2%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: Thy unity fire-tabletFire §43: By Thine aloneness gleaningsGWB §374: pious kitab-i-ahdAhd §9: unifying influence kitab-i-iqanKIQ §161: essential unity prayers-and-meditationsP&M §485: they who have believed in Thy unity tablet-of-ahmadAhmad §2: believers in the Divine Unity tablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §51: lone

آیهٔ

áyh ʾ-y-y → “created thing the sign”

literal: sign; verse; signs

SE expanded to “created thing the sign”

verse 66% sign 18% signs 3% verses 3% single 2% only 2% revealed 2% “smoke” 2% words 2% utterances 2%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: the signs fire-tabletFire §26: utterance gleaningsGWB §196: the words He hath revealed kitab-i-iqanKIQ §136: the verse prayers-and-meditationsP&M §712: by the sweetness of Thine utterances tablet-of-ahmadAhmad §7: by what the-hidden-wordsHW §147: wert thou to attain thereto will-and-testamentW&T §6: by the holy verse

تجلّی

tjllí j-l-y → “of the revelation”

literal: manifestation; manifestations; manifested

SE expanded to “of the revelation”

revelation 52% splendor 10% splendour 10% one 6% “revelation” 6% glory 3% falls 3% shine 3% reveal 3% such 3%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §11: the splendors gleaningsGWB §615: His subsequent Revelation kitab-i-iqanKIQ §204: reflected prayers-and-meditationsP&M §448: Thou didst reveal Thy Self tablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §8: appeared the-hidden-wordsHW §136: clear epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §75: effulgences gleaningsGWB §129: shine in the plentitude of His glory

حقّ

ḥqq ḥ-q-q → “creator” Distinctive

literal: truth; true; right

This form usually rendered as “god”, “truth”, “one” (436 occurrences)

god 29% truth 29% one 20% true 8% who 6% through 3% eternal 3% right 1% unto 1% righteousness 1%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §248: indubitable gleaningsGWB §484: due kitab-i-ahdAhd §3: real kitab-i-iqanKIQ §101: the inmost Reality prayers-and-meditationsP&M §227: established the-hidden-wordsHW §137: of your deserving will-and-testamentW&T §27: He, the True One epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §229: unto that

مشاهده

msháhdh sh-h-d → “in”

literal: witness; observation; witnessed

SE rendered آیهٔ (áyh), تجلّی (tjllí), حقّ (ḥqq), مشاهده (msháhdh), کنند (knnd), نه (nh), آنکه (ánkh), خلق (khlq), حقّ (ḥqq), دانند (dánnd) as “created thing the sign, of the revelation, the Creator, in, and, not, the creature, who maintaineth that”