Kitáb-i-Íqán — §66
Persian source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 66 of 291.
Source (Persian)
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Translation Notes
SE expanded to “concerning His words”
SE rendered ابنِ (ibn), الإنسانِ (an-nsán), السَّماء (as-samáʾ), می (mí), فرمايد (frmáyd), از (iz), کسوف (ksúf), شمس (shms), معارف (mʿárf) as “Son, man, heaven.”, eclipsed, sun, teachings”
3 occurrences in corpus
SE rendered الإنسانِ (an-nsán), السَّماء (as-samáʾ), می (mí), فرمايد (frmáyd), از (iz), کسوف (ksúf), شمس (shms), معارف (mʿárf), الهيّه (al-híhh) as “man, heaven.”, eclipsed, sun, teachings, heavenly”
SE rendered السَّماء (as-samáʾ), می (mí), فرمايد (frmáyd), از (iz), کسوف (ksúf), شمس (shms), معارف (mʿárf), الهيّه (al-híhh), سقوط (sqúṭ) as “heaven.”, eclipsed, sun, teachings, heavenly, fallen”
23 occurrences in corpus
This form usually rendered as “god”, “divine”, “god’s” (277 occurrences)
literal: sinking/collapsing; lunar-eclipse; eclipse, sink
This form usually rendered as “obscured” (1 occurrences)
SE rendered مثبته (mthbth), خسوف (khsúf), قمر (qmr), علم (ʿlm), مربّی (mrbbí), عباد (ʿbád), انعدام (inʿdám), اعلام (iʿlám), هدايت (hdáyt) as “divinely-established, obscured, moon, knowledge—the, educator, reversed, standards, guidance”
This form usually rendered as “reversed”, “utter” (4 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “felicity” (2 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “darkness”, “sinned”, “darkened” (15 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “amity”, “well-being”, “uprightness” (7 occurrences)
SE expanded to “hour draweth nigh”
This form usually rendered as “flow”, “enforced”, “running” (9 occurrences)
SE rendered بر (br), بحر (bḥr), عظمت، (ʿẓmt،), آسمان (ásmán), نجمی (njmí), بر (br), حسب (ḥsb), ظاهر (ẓáhr), پيدا (pídá), می (mí), مبشّر (mbshshr) as “upon, sea, glory, heaven, star, appear, heralding”
This form usually rendered as “appear” (1 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “creation”, “creatures”, “hath” (213 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “likewise”, “also”, “similarly” (52 occurrences)
SE expanded to “In like manner”
This form usually rendered as “meaning”, “true”, “significance” (22 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “arise”, “consummate”, “clearest” (12 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “most”, “all-glorious”, “exalted” (3 occurrences)
SE rendered فجر (fjr), اقوم (iqúm), اکرم (ikrm), دو (dú), علامت (ʿlámt), سماء (smáʾ), ظاهره (ẓáhrh), سماء (smáʾ), باطنه (báṭnh) as “break, true, exalted, signs, heaven, visible, invisible”
This form usually rendered as “hath”, “made”, “returned” (82 occurrences)
SE rendered ظهور (ẓhúr), هر (hr), نبيّ (nbíb), ظاهر (ẓáhr), گشته (gshth), چنانچه (chnánchh), شنيدهاند (shnídhánd) as “Revelation, each, Prophets, announced, have been, as is commonly believed”