Gleanings — §565
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 565 of 729.
Source (Arabic)
قل یا قوم لا تنظروا إِلَيَّ إلّا بعیني إن تریدنّ أن تعرفنّ الله وقدرته
Shoghi Effendi Translation
If it be your wish, O people, to know God and to discover the greatness of His might, look, then, upon Me with Mine own eyes, and not with the eyes of anyone besides Me.
Translation Notes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §85: didst saygleaningsGWB §107: utteranceskitab-i-ahdAhd §14: speakethkitab-i-iqanKIQ §144: He spoke these wordsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §739: and exclaimedtablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: ‘Call out totablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §31: And thus proclaimedthe-hidden-wordsHW §2: counsel
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §234: dependfire-tabletFire §48: He hath risen upgleaningsGWB §434: heightskitab-i-ahdAhd §13: your stationkitab-i-iqanKIQ §171: to proclaimprayers-and-meditationsP&M §763: to raise me uptablet-of-ahmadAhmad §9: so steadfasttablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §44: that place
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §33: We deem it advisablefire-tabletFire §48: looking towardgleaningsGWB §37: expectingkitab-i-ahdAhd §10: to turnkitab-i-iqanKIQ §119: are still expectingprayers-and-meditationsP&M §626: Thou lookesttablet-of-ahmadAhmad §2: Beautythe-hidden-wordsHW §60: My place of revelation
SE expanded to “with Mine own eyes”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §12: eyesgleaningsGWB §306: individualitykitab-i-iqanKIQ §221: manifestprayers-and-meditationsP&M §212: all eyestablet-of-ahmadAhmad §12: with their own eyestablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: thosetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §57: tearsthe-hidden-wordsHW §3: not through the eyes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §181: desiregleaningsGWB §361: one aimkitab-i-iqanKIQ §127: wishedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §499: will of mine ownthe-hidden-wordsHW §106: wouldst thou gazewill-and-testamentW&T §38: meant thatepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §61: is Our purposegleaningsGWB §569: hast ordained
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §252: KnowgleaningsGWB §567: acknowledgedkitab-i-ahdAhd §13: perform praiseworthy deedskitab-i-iqanKIQ §5: certaintyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §450: Thou hast enabled me to recognizetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §12: to seethe-hidden-wordsHW §57: thinkestepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §82: their fragrance
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §133: I adjure thee by Godfire-tabletFire §41: after GodgleaningsGWB §182: of the Divine Spiritkitab-i-ahdAhd §10: the divine Testatorkitab-i-iqanKIQ §74: of the divineprayers-and-meditationsP&M §10: Who worshippeth no onetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §31: “By the Lordthe-hidden-wordsHW §147: celestial
SE rendered تریدنّ (trídnn), تعرفنّ (tʿrfnn), الله (al-lh), وقدرته (wqdrth) as “wish, know, God”
