Gleanings — §672
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 672 of 729.
Source (Arabic)
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Translation Notes
This form usually rendered as “nightingales”, “birds” (2 occurrences)
SE expanded to “thorns and brambles”
This form usually rendered as “abasement”, “humiliation”, “shame” (28 occurrences)
SE expanded to “wretchedness and misery”
1 occurrence in corpus
This form usually rendered as “mystic”, “spiritual”, “eternal” (30 occurrences)
SE expanded to “dwell upon the dust”
This form usually rendered as “direct”, “goal”, “seeking” (19 occurrences)
SE rendered یاران (yárán), ترابی (trábí), قصد (qṣd), آشیان (áshíán), روحانی (rúḥání), فرمائید (frmáʾíd), مژده (mzhdh), بجان (bján), دهید (dhíd), جانان (jánán), تاج (táj) as “friends, dwell upon the dust, Haste, celestial, habitation, Announce, yourselves, tidings, Best-Beloved, crowned”
This form usually rendered as “life”, “unto”, “heart” (3 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “save”, “announce”, “proclaim” (16 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “mystery”, “secret”, “privily” (57 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “hath”, “appeared” (3 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “tidings”, “announced”, “herald” (20 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “behold”, “witness”, “perceive” (145 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “proclaim”, “announced”, “tidings” (19 occurrences)
1 occurrence in corpus
SE rendered یار (yár), بر (br), سر (sr), بازار (bázár), آمد (ámd), هدهدان (hdhdán), سبا (sbá), آگه (ágh), کنید (kníd), نگار (ngár), اذن (idhn), بار (bár) as “Well-Beloved, among, “Behold, come, messengers, to, “Lo, appeared”
1 occurrence in corpus
SE rendered سر (sr), بازار (bázár), آمد (ámd), هدهدان (hdhdán), سبا (sbá), آگه (ágh), کنید (kníd), نگار (ngár), اذن (idhn), بار (bár), داده (dádh) as “among, “Behold, come, messengers, to, “Lo, appeared”
1 occurrence in corpus
SE rendered بازار (bázár), آمد (ámd), هدهدان (hdhdán), سبا (sbá), آگه (ágh), کنید (kníd), نگار (ngár), اذن (idhn), بار (bár), داده (dádh), عاشقان (ʿáshqán) as ““Behold, come, messengers, to, “Lo, appeared, lovers”
SE rendered هدهدان (hdhdán), سبا (sbá), آگه (ágh), کنید (kníd), نگار (ngár), اذن (idhn), بار (bár), داده (dádh), عاشقان (ʿáshqán), روی (rúy), جانان (jánán) as “messengers, to, “Lo, appeared, lovers, beauty, Turn”
This form usually rendered as “anguish”, “vexations”, “sorrow” (3 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “transformation”, “bartered”, “converted” (34 occurrences)
SE rendered غم (ghm), فراق (fráq), بسرور (bsrúr), وصال (wṣál), تبدیل (tbdíl), نمائید (nmáʾíd), سمّ (smm), هجران (hjrán), بشهد (bshhd), لقا (lqá) as “anguish, separation, joy, reunion, into, bitterness, remoteness, presence, sweetness”
1 occurrence in corpus