Prayers and Meditations — §105
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 105 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
تَرَى مَحْبُوبَكَ يا إِلهِي بَيْنَ أَيْدِي أَعْدائِكَ وَتَسْمَعُ حَنِينَهُ بَيْنَ أَشْقِياءِ خَلْقِكَ، أَيْ رَبِّ هذا لَهُوَ الَّذِيْ زَيَّنْتَ الأَلْواحَ بِاسْمِهِ وَنَزَّلْتَ البَيانَ لِثَنائِهِ وَبَكِيتَ فِيْ كُلِّ الأَحْيانِ لِفِراقِهِ، إِذًا تَراهُ يا إِلهِي وَحْدَهُ بَيْنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآياتِكَ وَأَعْرَضُوا عَنْ حَضْرَتِكَ وَغَفَلُوا عَنْ بَدَائِعِ رَح
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Thou seest Thy dear One, O my God, lying at the mercy of Thine enemies, and hearest the voice of His lamentation from the midst of such of Thy creatures as have dealt wickedly in Thy sight. He it is, O my Lord, through Whose name Thou didst beautify Thy Tablets, and for Whose greater glory Thou didst send down the Bayán, and at Whose separation from Thee Thou didst weep continually. Look Thou, then, upon His loneliness, O my God, and behold Him fallen into the hands of them that have disbelieved in Thy signs, have turned their backs upon Thee, and have forgotten the wonders of Thy mercy.
Translation Notes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §136: Wert thou to lookfire-tabletFire §26: seestgleaningsGWB §77: We point outprayers-and-meditationsP&M §17: that can behold Theethe-hidden-wordsHW §37: and to mirror forthwill-and-testamentW&T §5: behold himepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §168: perceivedgleaningsGWB §359: judgment
love 51% loved 16% beloved 16% well-beloved 5% best-beloved 4% loveth 2% dear 2% lover 2% thou 1% who 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: My lovefire-tabletFire §7: of Thy lovegleaningsGWB §363: devotionkitab-i-iqanKIQ §219: the New Belovedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §60: desiresttablet-of-carmelCarmel §1: a Daytablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §40: the Beloved Onethe-hidden-wordsHW §24: seek thine own
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §13: The handgleaningsGWB §490: the perpetratorskitab-i-iqanKIQ §95: with their own handsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §343: through the handstablet-of-ahmadAhmad §8: in Whose hand istablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §57: with their handsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §106: the handsgleaningsGWB §627: holdest in Thine hands
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §134: that hearkenfire-tabletFire §37: Give Thou eargleaningsGWB §638: heedethkitab-i-ahdAhd §3: sightkitab-i-iqanKIQ §86: listenerprayers-and-meditationsP&M §772: Thou hast hearkenedtablet-of-carmelCarmel §2: hearken to Thy calltablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §21: And they heard
حَنِينَهُ
literal: lamentation, yearning; lamentation; yearning/lamentation
SE expanded to “voice of His lamentation”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §190: lamentationsgleaningsGWB §170: groanethprayers-and-meditationsP&M §319: the voiceepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §138: lamentationgleaningsGWB §118: moansprayers-and-meditationsP&M §195: lamentingepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §62: cryprayers-and-meditationsP&M §772: and the groaning
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: my remotenessgleaningsGWB §110: their oppressorskitab-i-iqanKIQ §157: of wickednessprayers-and-meditationsP&M §570: wicked doerstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §36: wickedwill-and-testamentW&T §47: ungodlygleaningsGWB §279: the ungodlykitab-i-iqanKIQ §88: miserable
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §156: creaturesfire-tabletFire §40: wert createdgleaningsGWB §349: mankindkitab-i-iqanKIQ §213: peoplesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §750: their Creatortablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §54: created herthe-hidden-wordsHW §69: whyepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §136: God created thee
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §30: is our LordgleaningsGWB §107: Voice of Divinitykitab-i-iqanKIQ §28: divine decreeprayers-and-meditationsP&M §694: overshadowed with Thy Lordshiptablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §11: the All-Gloriousthe-hidden-wordsHW §25: of thy Godwill-and-testamentW&T §47: Oepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §229: I have nurtured
This form usually rendered as “both”, “"he”, “fear” (43 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §210: \‘BeholdgleaningsGWB §103: Essencekitab-i-iqanKIQ §110: Godprayers-and-meditationsP&M §432: that whichepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §92: is meantgleaningsGWB §576: and yet iskitab-i-iqanKIQ §70: He that isprayers-and-meditationsP&M §770: of the robe to which
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §203: befire-tabletFire §31: AdornergleaningsGWB §480: deckkitab-i-ahdAhd §7: is investedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §135: and didst attireepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §150: adorn themgleaningsGWB §591: I was adornedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §135: Thou didst adorn
This form usually rendered as “sent”, “have”, “descended” (29 occurrences)
SE expanded to “didst send down”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §172: hath been revealedgleaningsGWB §607: mentioned and describedkitab-i-ahdAhd §5: have already been revealedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §275: been perpetratedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §835: sent down by Theetablet-of-carmelCarmel §1: ‘Haste theetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §18: gradesthe-hidden-wordsHW §97: thy goal
utterance 53% bayán 17% eloquence 6% glorification 6% utterances 6% ornament 3% articulate 3% time 3% speak 3% give 3%
لِثَنائِهِ
literal: praise; praise, commendation
This form usually rendered as “praise”, “glorify”, “magnify” (8 occurrences)
SE expanded to “for Whose greater glory”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §52: secondgleaningsGWB §321: createdkitab-i-iqanKIQ §151: “Secondaryprayers-and-meditationsP&M §335: Whose praiseepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §6: to glorify TheegleaningsGWB §117: praiseprayers-and-meditationsP&M §325: muse on Thy virtuesepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §143: Secondarily
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §114: weepethgleaningsGWB §292: weepeth soreprayers-and-meditationsP&M §422: to weeptablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §57: shed tearsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: weepgleaningsGWB §453: heavens weptprayers-and-meditationsP&M §350: my bitter wailinggleaningsGWB §67: wouldst weep
This form usually rendered as “times”, “occasions”, “time” (22 occurrences)
SE expanded to “Whose separation from Thee”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §171: Qur’ánfire-tabletFire §1: of separationgleaningsGWB §312: different fromkitab-i-iqanKIQ §13: someprayers-and-meditationsP&M §155: my separationtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §3: and the wisdomwill-and-testamentW&T §6: the people of salvationepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §245: separated
SE rendered تَراهُ (taráh), إِلهِي (ʾilhí), وَحْدَهُ (waḥdah), الَّذِينَ (adh-dhín), كَفَرُوا (kafarúá) as “His loneliness, my God, them that, have disbelieved”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §84: anotherfire-tabletFire §43: By Thine alonenessgleaningsGWB §328: the one Powerkitab-i-iqanKIQ §71: successivelyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §344: Incomparabletablet-of-ahmadAhmad §2: believers in the Divine Unitytablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §51: lonethe-hidden-wordsHW §69: dust
This form usually rendered as “doubters”, “dependents”, “generations” (13 occurrences)
have 40% disbelieved 21% repudiated 17% believe 4% denied 4% believed 4% rejected 2% refused 2% openly 2% had 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: forgivegleaningsGWB §44: infidelkitab-i-iqanKIQ §134: the infidelsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §273: disownedtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §7: denywill-and-testamentW&T §34: denied Thy wondrous Signsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §6: disbelievedgleaningsGWB §272: betray not
SE expanded to “in Thy signs”
signs 42% utterances 25% verses 8% repudiated 4% utterance 4% words 4% tokens 4% greatest 4% kingdom 4%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §129: signsfire-tabletFire §26: utterancegleaningsGWB §506: the verseskitab-i-iqanKIQ §210: theprayers-and-meditationsP&M §480: Thy tokenstablet-of-ahmadAhmad §7: by whatwill-and-testamentW&T §6: by the holy verseepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §232: by His verses
SE expanded to “have turned their backs”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §83: disputedgleaningsGWB §612: and turned awaykitab-i-iqanKIQ §4: attackprayers-and-meditationsP&M §529: and cavil attablet-of-ahmadAhmad §14: turns awaythe-hidden-wordsHW §24: thee turn awaywill-and-testamentW&T §17: oppose and protestepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §230: protested
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §216: countenancegleaningsGWB §440: Gather ye togetherkitab-i-iqanKIQ §144: assembledprayers-and-meditationsP&M §633: have, at Thy bidding, metthe-hidden-wordsHW §122: His holywill-and-testamentW&T §5: His (Bahá’u’lláh’s) Presenceepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §101: HergleaningsGWB §259: had delegated to meet
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §185: they are obliviousgleaningsGWB §452: them that have strayedkitab-i-ahdAhd §5: remained heedlesskitab-i-iqanKIQ §214: wayward thoughtprayers-and-meditationsP&M §778: have failedthe-hidden-wordsHW §122: neglectedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §130: that hath erredgleaningsGWB §692: turneth away from them
SE expanded to “wonders of Thy mercy”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §64: the PeerlessgleaningsGWB §286: andkitab-i-iqanKIQ §101: new and everlastingprayers-and-meditationsP&M §315: thingsthe-hidden-wordsHW §160: mysticwill-and-testamentW&T §2: most wondrousepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §191: the universegleaningsGWB §286: through
SE rendered حَضْرَتِكَ (ḥaḍratik), وَغَفَلُوا (waghafalúá), بَدَائِعِ (badáʾiʿ), رَح (raḥ) as “Thee, have forgotten, the wonders of Thy mercy”
mercy 75% have 6% most 4% tender 3% merciful 2% all-merciful 2% grace 2% late 2% compassionate 2% will 1%
