Prayers and Meditations — §643
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 643 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
لأَرَضِينَ، أَيْ رَبِّ أَنْتَ الَّذِيْ سَبَقَ كَرَمُكَ وَعَلَتْ قُدْرَتُكَ وَأَحاطَتْ رَحْمَتُكَ، فَانْظُرْ إِلى بَرِيَّتِكَ بِلَحَظاتِ أَعْيُنِ أَلْطافِكَ وَلا تَدَعْهُمْ بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ وَأَهْوائِهِمْ فِي أَيَّامِكَ، وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ يا إِلهِي بَعِدُوا عَنْ قُرْبِكَ وَأَعْرَضُوا عَنْ وَجْهِكَ وَلكِنْ أَنْتَ الكَرِيْمُ فِي ذاتِكَ وَالرَّحِيمُ فِي نَفْسِكَ، عامِلْهُمْ بِخَفِيَّاتِ جُودِكَ وَمَواهِبِكَ، إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الَّذِيْ أَقَرَّ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ بِقُدْرَتِكَ وَاعْتَرَفَ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ لِعَظَمَتِكَ وَاقْتِدارِكَ لا
Shoghi Effendi Translation
Thou art He, O my Lord, Whose bounty hath surpassed all things, and Whose power hath transcended all things, and Whose mercy hath encompassed all things. Look, then, upon Thy people with the eyes of Thy tender mercies, and leave them not to themselves and to their corrupt desires in Thy days. How farsoever they may have strayed from Thee, and however grievously they have turned back from Thy face, yet Thou, in Thine essence, art the All-Bountiful, and, in Thine inmost spirit, art the Most Merciful. Deal with them according to the unrevealed tokens of Thy bounty and Thy gifts. Thou art, verily, the One to the power of Whose might all things have testified, and to Whose majesty and omnipotence the whole creation hath borne witness.
Translation Notes
SE rendered لأَرَضِينَ، (lʾaraḍína،), رَبِّ (rabb) as “Lord”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §74: GodhoodgleaningsGWB §127: divinely revealedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §45: by the Lordprayers-and-meditationsP&M §232: Essencetablet-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 §102: thy Lord
bounty 36% generosity 27% favor 9% bountiful 9% shadow 3% bestowal 3% bounteousness 3% graciousness 3% grace 3% through 3%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §144: generosityfire-tabletFire §4: bestowalgleaningsGWB §632: all-gloriouskitab-i-ahdAhd §11: All-Powerfulkitab-i-iqanKIQ §117: praiseprayers-and-meditationsP&M §414: the All-Bounteouswill-and-testamentW&T §50: Graciousepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §136: Generous
power 45% might 30% strength 7% almighty 7% through 4% authority 3% transcendent 1% all-conquering 1% omnipotent 1% sovereign 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §204: ordainedfire-tabletFire §48: OrdainergleaningsGWB §717: the essence of all powerkitab-i-ahdAhd §9: consummate powerkitab-i-iqanKIQ §264: transcendent powerprayers-and-meditationsP&M §112: hath been forbiddentablet-of-ahmadAhmad §3: the Powerfultablet-of-carmelCarmel §5: of His might
encompassed 32% have 18% compassed 14% hath 14% whisperings 4% enveloped 4% all-encompassing 4% encompasseth 4% blew 4% encompass 4%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §215: throughoutfire-tabletFire §20: whisperingsgleaningsGWB §305: encompassed Uskitab-i-iqanKIQ §265: pervading influenceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §774: and all-encompassing dominionthe-hidden-wordsHW §98: besetwill-and-testamentW&T §32: compassed me roundepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §143: envelop
mercy 90% all-encompassing 2% transcendent 2% heaven 1% court 1% canopy 1% compassion 1% wondrous 1% mercies 1% tender 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §169: menfire-tabletFire §7: mankindgleaningsGWB §195: Creatorprayers-and-meditationsP&M §441: and the sick made wholeepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §9: creationgleaningsGWB §621: His creaturesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §112: of Thy peopleepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §40: clear of them
SE rendered بَرِيَّتِكَ (baríratik), بِلَحَظاتِ (bilaḥaẓát), أَعْيُنِ (ʾaʿyun), أَلْطافِكَ (ʾalṭáfik), تَدَعْهُمْ (tadaʿhum) as “people, eyes, tender mercies, themselves”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: the eyesgleaningsGWB §167: with your eyeskitab-i-iqanKIQ §17: watersprayers-and-meditationsP&M §219: with Thine own eyestablet-of-ahmadAhmad §12: with their own eyestablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: those of all creationthe-hidden-wordsHW §58: with Mine eyewill-and-testamentW&T §18: to appoint
This form usually rendered as “favors”, “gifts”, “loving-kindness” (65 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §253: is puregleaningsGWB §569: of Thy manifold blessingskitab-i-iqanKIQ §23: goodly giftprayers-and-meditationsP&M §295: Thy giftsthe-hidden-wordsHW §109: loving and kindnesswill-and-testamentW&T §27: as a signepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §15: bountiesgleaningsGWB §100: discriminating
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §104: hast entrustedgleaningsGWB §635: and castkitab-i-iqanKIQ §126: “Letprayers-and-meditationsP&M §726: been irrevocablythe-hidden-wordsHW §13: of strengthwill-and-testamentW&T §48: leftepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §32: cast awaygleaningsGWB §196: hath endowed
own 41% themselves 31% souls 10% proper 3% themselves.” 3% selves 3% uttered 3% hearts 3% within 3% lives 3%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §100: thy lifegleaningsGWB §454: Be fair in your judgmentkitab-i-ahdAhd §8: thosekitab-i-iqanKIQ §170: desiresprayers-and-meditationsP&M §388: my hearttablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §52: within herselfthe-hidden-wordsHW §121: pure breathwill-and-testamentW&T §25: believers
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §40: of their corrupt desiresfire-tabletFire §21: passiongleaningsGWB §313: to self and passionkitab-i-iqanKIQ §224: guidanceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §838: their desiresthe-hidden-wordsHW §39: thou desirestwill-and-testamentW&T §36: my spiritepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §9: mere impulse
8 occurrences in corpus
This form usually rendered as “indeed” (6 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §159: God isgleaningsGWB §148: this God-givenkitab-i-iqanKIQ §191: eternal holinessprayers-and-meditationsP&M §845: of Thy Divinitythe-hidden-wordsHW §147: celestialwill-and-testamentW&T §53: the Holy Writepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §206: GodheadgleaningsGWB §191: God’s
SE rendered وَلَوْ (walaw), أَنَّهُمْ (ʾannahum), إِلهِي (ʾilhí), بَعِدُوا (baʿidúá), قُرْبِكَ (qurbik), وَأَعْرَضُوا (waʾaʿraḍúá) as “however, they, Thee, from”
after 47% remoteness 13% far 12% when 9% then 5% notwithstanding 3% upon 3% subsequent 3% future 3% since 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §132: farfire-tabletFire §3: sandsgleaningsGWB §719: them that are estrangedkitab-i-ahdAhd §3: Henceforwardkitab-i-iqanKIQ §109: after it.”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §677: strayed far from Theewill-and-testamentW&T §18: his successorepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §155: after it
SE rendered إِلهِي (ʾilhí), بَعِدُوا (baʿidúá), قُرْبِكَ (qurbik), وَأَعْرَضُوا (waʾaʿraḍúá), وَجْهِكَ (wajhik) as “Thee, from, face”
SE rendered إِلهِي (ʾilhí), بَعِدُوا (baʿidúá), قُرْبِكَ (qurbik), وَأَعْرَضُوا (waʾaʿraḍúá), وَجْهِكَ (wajhik), وَلكِنْ (walkin) as “Thee, from, face, yet”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §9: denialsgleaningsGWB §658: withdrawnkitab-i-iqanKIQ §14: mere oppositionprayers-and-meditationsP&M §794: reviledtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §14: turns awaythe-hidden-wordsHW §22: hast thou turned awaywill-and-testamentW&T §17: hathepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §257: have turned aside
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §162: gonefire-tabletFire §30: This FacegleaningsGWB §490: action in approaching theekitab-i-ahdAhd §10: turn your faceskitab-i-iqanKIQ §187: their countenanceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §70: whose eyestablet-of-carmelCarmel §1: the light of thethe-hidden-wordsHW §41: before Our Face
SE rendered وَأَعْرَضُوا (waʾaʿraḍúá), وَجْهِكَ (wajhik), وَلكِنْ (walkin), الكَرِيْمُ (al-karím), ذاتِكَ (dhátik) as “from, face, yet, the All-Bountiful, essence”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: Thine EssencegleaningsGWB §188: Self is His Selfkitab-i-iqanKIQ §106: the unchangeable Beingprayers-and-meditationsP&M §729: Thine all-glorious Selfwill-and-testamentW&T §25: in personepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §168: the Most Sublime EssencegleaningsGWB §655: May my lifekitab-i-iqanKIQ §84: you
SE expanded to “Deal with them”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §242: unseemly and unholy deedsgleaningsGWB §497: the workskitab-i-iqanKIQ §215: conditionsprayers-and-meditationsP&M §291: Do withtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §4: conformingthe-hidden-wordsHW §30: do thou observewill-and-testamentW&T §39: enforcethepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §174: committed
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §163: concealgleaningsGWB §555: the hidden mysterieskitab-i-iqanKIQ §38: passed beyond the veilprayers-and-meditationsP&M §472: secretstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §7: invisiblethe-hidden-wordsHW §124: unseengleaningsGWB §137: hiddenprayers-and-meditationsP&M §643: the unrevealed tokens
bounty 45% bounteousness 12% generosity 12% through 10% grace 6% favor 4% bountiful 4% billowing 2% bestowal 2% graciousness 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §8: of Thy bounteousnessfire-tabletFire §33: Thy bestowalgleaningsGWB §465: through His bountykitab-i-iqanKIQ §170: graceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §793: bounteousness and generositythe-hidden-wordsHW §126: to be generousepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §30: Thy bountyfire-tabletFire §34: Giver
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §152: All-BounteousgleaningsGWB §621: upon His grace and bountyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §841: bounties vouchsafedwill-and-testamentW&T §56: the giftepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §15: of all giftsgleaningsGWB §195: All-Bountifulprayers-and-meditationsP&M §408: and favors,—Iwill-and-testamentW&T §10: a bounty
This form usually rendered as “acknowledged”, “acknowledge”, “testifieth” (15 occurrences)
acknowledged 33% acknowledge 8% testifieth 8% testified 8% hath 8% assigned 8% confessed 8% have 8% witnessed 8%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §110: acknowledgedgleaningsGWB §288: the All-Highest Thronekitab-i-ahdAhd §6: singled outkitab-i-iqanKIQ §248: ascendedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §241: have acknowledgedtablet-of-carmelCarmel §3: thine eyesthe-hidden-wordsHW §104: destinedwill-and-testamentW&T §8: quietness
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §226: for whatsoevergleaningsGWB §409: things.…kitab-i-iqanKIQ §28: thing aprayers-and-meditationsP&M §21: Thou choosesttablet-of-ahmadAhmad §6: desirethtablet-of-carmelCarmel §2: created things.’the-hidden-wordsHW §69: substanceepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §97: nothing
SE expanded to “hath borne witness”
hath 32% confessed 16% recognized 11% confessing 11% hast 5% confess 5% borne 5% testifieth 5% acknowledge 5% have 5%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §144: of Thy knowledgegleaningsGWB §219: faithfulkitab-i-ahdAhd §13: perform praiseworthy deedskitab-i-iqanKIQ §75: Knowledge,”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §583: the apprehensiontablet-of-ahmadAhmad §12: to seethe-hidden-wordsHW §6: Know thisepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §84: believed and imagined
