Kitáb-i-Íqán — §47
Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 47 of 291.
Source (Persian)
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Translation Notes
SE rendered ديگر (dígr), زحمت (zḥmt), مرارت (mrárt), طلعات (ṭlʿát), ملاحظه (mláḥẓh) as “hardships, bitterness, lives, consider”
This form usually rendered as “bitterness” (1 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “beings”, “countenances”, “revealers” (16 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “thou”, “meditate”, “behold” (39 occurrences)
SE expanded to “single-handed and alone”
5 occurrences in corpus
SE rendered طلعات (ṭlʿát), ملاحظه (mláḥẓh), نما (nmá), بی (bí), ناصر (náṣr), معين (mʿín), ظاهری (ẓáhrí), مقابل (mqábl), جميع (jmíʿ) as “lives, consider, Reflect, single-handed and alone, faced, all”
SE rendered ملاحظه (mláḥẓh), نما (nmá), بی (bí), ناصر (náṣr), معين (mʿín), ظاهری (ẓáhrí), مقابل (mqábl), جميع (jmíʿ), اهل (ihl), ارض (irḍ) as “consider, Reflect, single-handed and alone, faced, all, peoples, world”
SE rendered ملاحظه (mláḥẓh), نما (nmá), بی (bí), ناصر (náṣr), معين (mʿín), ظاهری (ẓáhrí), مقابل (mqábl), جميع (jmíʿ), اهل (ihl), ارض (irḍ), اقامه (iqámh) as “consider, Reflect, single-handed and alone, faced, all, peoples, world, promulgated”
This form usually rendered as “caused”, “promulgated”, “sojourned” (3 occurrences)
SE rendered جميع (jmíʿ), اهل (ihl), ارض (irḍ), اقامه (iqámh), حدود (ḥdúd), اللّه (al-lh), می (mí), فرمايند (frmáynd), همه (hmh), ايذاء (iydháʾ) as “all, peoples, world, promulgated, the Law, God, persecutions”
3 occurrences in corpus
This form usually rendered as “ponder”, “wilt”, “deal” (29 occurrences)
SE rendered حدود (ḥdúd), اللّه (al-lh), می (mí), فرمايند (frmáynd), همه (hmh), ايذاء (iydháʾ), بر (br), وجود (wjúd), های (háy), مبارکه (mbárkh) as “the Law, God, persecutions, upon, Souls, holy”
This form usually rendered as “world”, “all”, “creation” (123 occurrences)
SE rendered همه (hmh), ايذاء (iydháʾ), بر (br), وجود (wjúd), های (háy), مبارکه (mbárkh), لطيفهرقيقه (lṭífhrqíqh), وارد (wárd) as “persecutions, upon, Souls, holy, precious, and tender, inflicted”
1 occurrence in corpus
This form usually rendered as “utmost”, “shameful”, “greatest” (19 occurrences)
SE expanded to “suffered and endured”