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Gleanings — §511

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 511 of 729.

Source (Arabic)

و در مقامی حضرت موجود در سبب و علّت اوّلیّهٴ سکون و راحت امم و عمار عالم میفرماید: لابدّ بر این است مجمع بزرگی در ارض برپا شود و ملوک و سلاطین در آن مجمع مفاوضه در صلح اکبر نمایند و آن این است که دول عظیمه برای آسایش عالم بصلح محکم متشبّث شوند و اگر ملکی بر ملکی برخیزد جمیع متّفقاً بر منع قیام نمایند در این صورت عالم محتاج بمهمّات حربیّه و صفوف عسکریّه نبوده و نیست الّا علی قدر یحفظون به ممالکهم و بلدانهم اینست سبب آسایش دولت و رعیّت و مملکت

Shoghi Effendi Translation

The Great Being, wishing to reveal the prerequisites of the peace and tranquillity of the world and the advancement of its peoples, hath written: The time must come when the imperative necessity for the holding of a vast, an all-embracing assemblage of men will be universally realized. The rulers and kings of the earth must needs attend it, and, participating in its deliberations, must consider such ways and means as will lay the foundations of the world’s Great Peace amongst men. Such a peace demandeth that the Great Powers should resolve, for the sake of the tranquillity of the peoples of the earth, to be fully reconciled among themselves. Should any king take up arms against another, all should unitedly arise and prevent him. If this be done, the nations of the world will no longer require any armaments, except for the purpose of preserving the security of their realms and of maintaining internal order within their territories. This will ensure the peace and composure of every people, government and nation.

Translation Notes

علّت
ʿllt ʿ-l-l

literal: cause; reason

SE rendered مقامی (mqámí), حضرت (ḥḍrt), موجود (mújúd), سبب (sbb), علّت (ʿllt), اوّلیّهٴ (iwwlílhٴ), سکون (skún), راحت (ráḥt), امم (imm) as “The time must come, The Great Being, prerequisites, peace and tranquillity, peoples”

cause 23% motive 14% source 14% caused 9% instrument 9% reason 9% cannot 9% acted 5% what 5% causeth 5%
اوّلیّهٴ
iwwlílhٴ ʾ-w-l

literal: first; beginning; firstness

SE rendered حضرت (ḥḍrt), موجود (mújúd), سبب (sbb), علّت (ʿllt), اوّلیّهٴ (iwwlílhٴ), سکون (skún), راحت (ráḥt), امم (imm), عمار (ʿmár), عالم (ʿálm) as “The Great Being, prerequisites, peace and tranquillity, peoples, advancement, world”

first 38% world 14% beginning 13% primal 11% former 6% early 6% hath 6% old 3% “first” 3% one 2%
راحت
ráḥt r-w-ḥ

literal: spirit; spiritual; soul

SE rendered سبب (sbb), علّت (ʿllt), اوّلیّهٴ (iwwlílhٴ), سکون (skún), راحت (ráḥt), امم (imm), عمار (ʿmár), عالم (ʿálm), میفرماید (mífrmáyd) as “prerequisites, peace and tranquillity, peoples, advancement, world, hath written”

لابدّ
lábdd b-d-d

literal: necessarily; necessary; necessity

SE rendered امم (imm), عمار (ʿmár), عالم (ʿálm), میفرماید (mífrmáyd), لابدّ (lábdd), بر (br), مجمع (mjmʿ), بزرگی (bzrgí), ارض (irḍ) as “peoples, advancement, world, hath written, assemblage, vast, earth”

must 67% nay 33%
برپا
brpá brpá → “stirred”

literal: erect, establish; standing

2 occurrences in corpus

اکبر
ikbr k-b-r

literal: greatest; greater; great

SE rendered سلاطین (sláṭín), مجمع (mjmʿ), مفاوضه (mfáwḍh), صلح (ṣlḥ), اکبر (ikbr), نمایند (nmáynd), دول (dúl), عظیمه (ʿẓímh) as “rulers, participating, Great Peace, consider, Great Powers”

most 38% greater 15% great 13% greatest 5% mighty 5% transcendent 5% greet 5% more 5% surest 5% supreme 5%
صفوف
ṣfúf ṣ-f-f

literal: rank; ranks; describe/fashion

SE rendered عالم (ʿálm), محتاج (mḥtáj), بمهمّات (bmhmmát), حربیّه (ḥrbíbh), صفوف (ṣfúf) as “nations, require, armaments”

rank 40% hosts 20% things 20% purge 20%
عسکریّه
ʿskrírh ʿ-s-k-r

literal: armies; army; army, troops

SE rendered محتاج (mḥtáj), بمهمّات (bmhmmát), حربیّه (ḥrbíbh), صفوف (ṣfúf), عسکریّه (ʿskrírh), نبوده (nbúdh), نیست (níst), قدر (qdr) as “require, armaments, except for”

army 22% armaments 22% arms 11% conscripted 11% forces 11% force 11% armies 11%
نبوده
nbúdh búdn

literal: be; to be

SE rendered بمهمّات (bmhmmát), حربیّه (ḥrbíbh), صفوف (ṣfúf), عسکریّه (ʿskrírh), نبوده (nbúdh), نیست (níst), قدر (qdr), یحفظون (yḥfẓún) as “armaments, except for, preserving”

hath 30% have 22% had 15% can 7% could 7% remained 4% never 4% accounted 4% evident 4% neither 4%

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