Kitáb-i-Íqán — §261
Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 261 of 291.
Source (Persian)
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Translation Notes
SE rendered آيا (áyá), صاحب (ṣáḥb), بيان (bíán), می (mí), توان (túán), نسبت (nsbt), داد (dád), درغير (drghír), صراط (ṣráṭ), الهی (al-hí) as “Could, Revealer, utterance, regarded, any way but, the way, God”
This form usually rendered as “relationship”, “accused”, “ascribed” (60 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “do”, “hurled”, “will” (24 occurrences)
SE expanded to “any way but”
SE rendered نسبت (nsbt), داد (dád), درغير (drghír), صراط (ṣráṭ), الهی (al-hí), مشی (mshí), می (mí), نمايد (nmáyd), غير (ghír), رضای (rḍáy) as “regarded, any way but, the way, God, walking, aught else, good-pleasure”
This form usually rendered as “will”, “may”, “must” (188 occurrences)
SE rendered نمايد (nmáyd), غير (ghír), رضای (rḍáy), امری (imrí), طلب (ṭlb), نموده (nmúdh), همين (hmín), آيه (áyh), نسيم (nsím) as “walking, aught else, good-pleasure, yearned, hath, this very, verse, breath”
This form usually rendered as “search”, “eagerness”, “seeking” (53 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “breeze”, “sweet”, “single” (21 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “bloweth”, “blowing”, “breathed” (4 occurrences)
SE rendered بوزد (búzd), جميع (jmíʿ), هياکل (híákl), وجود (wjúd), جان (ján), انفاق (infáq), نمايند (nmáynd), از (iz), روان (rúán) as “breathed, all, beings, lives, renounce, hath, souls”
This form usually rendered as “sacrificed”, “sacrificing”, “surrendered” (17 occurrences)
7 occurrences in corpus
SE rendered انفاق (infáq), نمايند (nmáynd), از (iz), روان (rúán), گذرند (gdhrnd), حال (ḥál), ملاحظه (mláḥẓh), نمائيد (nmáʾíd), چقدر (chqdr), ناس (nás) as “renounce, hath, souls, Reflect, do, how, generation”
SE rendered نمايند (nmáynd), از (iz), روان (rúán), گذرند (gdhrnd), حال (ḥál), ملاحظه (mláḥẓh), نمائيد (nmáʾíd), چقدر (chqdr), ناس (nás), نسناساند (nsnásánd) as “hath, souls, Reflect, do, how, generation, villainous”
literal: observation; observe; observation, consideration
This form usually rendered as “consider”, “behold”, “observe” (153 occurrences)
1 occurrence in corpus
SE rendered چقدر (chqdr), ناس (nás), نسناساند (nsnásánd), غايت (gháyt), حق (ḥq), ناسپاس (náspás), چشم (chshm), از (iz), جميع (jmíʿ), اينها (iynhá) as “how, generation, villainous, abjectly, ingratitude, eyes, all, those”
1 occurrence in corpus
SE rendered جميع (jmíʿ), اينها (iynhá), پوشيدهاند (púshídhánd), عقب (ʿqb), مرداری (mrdárí), چند (chnd), از (iz), بطنشان (bṭnshán), افغان (ifghán) as “all, those, closed, foul carcasses, bellies, cry”
This form usually rendered as “foul” (1 occurrences)
SE rendered اينها (iynhá), پوشيدهاند (púshídhánd), عقب (ʿqb), مرداری (mrdárí), چند (chnd), از (iz), بطنشان (bṭnshán), افغان (ifghán), مال (mál), مسلمانان (mslmánán) as “those, closed, foul carcasses, bellies, cry, substance, faithful”
This form usually rendered as “whose” (1 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “cry” (1 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “faithful” (1 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “abjectly” (1 occurrences)
SE rendered وجود (wjúd), چه (chh), نسبت (nsbt), های (háy), غير (ghír), لائقه (láʾqh), مطالع (mṭálʿ), قدسيّه (qdsísh), می (mí), دهند (dhnd) as “what, calumnies, unseemly, Daysprings, Holiness, hurled”
This form usually rendered as “have”, “disbelieved”, “who” (59 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “own” (1 occurrences)
SE expanded to “world to come”
SE rendered قالُوا (qálúá), اللّهَ (al-lh), يَکُنْ (yakun), قادراً (qádráan), شَيْءٍ (shayʾin) as “said, “God, is, powerless”
SE rendered يَکُنْ (yakun), قادراً (qádráan), شَيْءٍ (shayʾin), يَدُهُ (yaduh), الفَضلِ (al-faḍl) as “is, powerless, hand, mercy”
This form usually rendered as “grace”, “bounty”, “through” (56 occurrences)