Prayers and Meditations — §684

Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 684 of 858.

Source (Arabic)

ثُمَّ يَشْرَعُ فِي التَّكْبِيْراتِ ستَّ مَرَّاتٍ اللَّهُ أَبْهی. بايد بعد از تكبيرات قرائت شود نوزده

Shoghi Effendi Translation

Let him, then, repeat six times the greeting “Alláh-u-Abhá,” and then repeat nineteen

Translation Notes

يَشْرَعُ

yashraʿ sh-r-ʿ → “law” Distinctive

literal: law; law, religious law

This form usually rendered as “let” (1 occurrences)

law 47% faith 12% river 8% laws 7% have 5% path 5% divine 5% dispensation 3% revelation 3% law.” 3%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §133: Law gleaningsGWB §668: embrace the ancient Faith kitab-i-iqanKIQ §10: the river prayers-and-meditationsP&M §160: have been promulgated will-and-testamentW&T §45: Thy Resplendent Law epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §109: river gleaningsGWB §50: We have, then, called into being kitab-i-iqanKIQ §236: the Law.”

التَّكْبِيْراتِ

at-takbírát k-b-r → “greeting”

literal: greatest; greater; great

most 33% grandeur 18% great 14% mighty 6% supreme 6% glory 6% arrogance 5% greater 5% transcendent 4% pride 3%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §223: grandeur gleaningsGWB §212: His transcendent glory kitab-i-iqanKIQ §59: most beauteous prayers-and-meditationsP&M §684: the greeting “Alláh-u-Abhá,”tablet-of-ahmadAhmad §14: showeth pride tablet-of-carmelCarmel §2: entire the-hidden-wordsHW §123: haughtiness will-and-testamentW&T §48: their pride

ستَّ

stt s-t-t → “sixty”

literal: six; sixty

sixty 50% six 50%

gleaningsGWB §139: sixty prayers-and-meditationsP&M §684: six

مَرَّاتٍ

marrátin r-ʾ-y → “thou” Distinctive

literal: mirror

This form usually rendered as “mirror” (8 occurrences)

thou 45% seest 10% mirrors 9% see 8% mirror 8% behold 7% may 5% have 3% beholdest 3% hath 2%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: Thou beholdest fire-tabletFire §28: Canst Thou see gleaningsGWB §359: judgment kitab-i-iqanKIQ §237: “What thinkest prayers-and-meditationsP&M §133: didst unveil to His eyes the-hidden-wordsHW §37: and to mirror forth will-and-testamentW&T §35: saw me epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: Thou seest me

اللَّهُ

al-lah ʾ-l-h → “god”

literal: god; divine; o god

god 93% god’s 2% lord 1% divine 1% almighty 1% “god 1% god.” 0% unto 0% towards 0% \‘god 0%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §136: By God fire-tabletFire §41: after God gleaningsGWB §462: and to this God is My witness kitab-i-ahdAhd §10: the divine Testator kitab-i-iqanKIQ §149: God”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §470: the Lord of their lives tablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §50: By the Lord the-hidden-wordsHW §147: celestial

أَبْهی

ʾabhí b-h-w → ““alláh-u-abhá,””

literal: glory; most glorious; most-glorious

all-glorious 60% most 19% abhá 14% glorious 1% glory 1% whatsoever 1% effulgent 1% glories 1%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §213: splendor gleaningsGWB §200: glorious kitab-i-ahdAhd §8: among the people of Bahá prayers-and-meditationsP&M §123: most effulgent the-hidden-wordsHW §22: effulgent glory will-and-testamentW&T §56: of Glories epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §204: by Thy most glorious gleaningsGWB §273: My glory

بايد

báyd b-y-d

literal: must; must, should; must, needs

SE rendered ستَّ (stt), مَرَّاتٍ (marrátin), اللَّهُ (al-lah), أَبْهی (ʾabhí), بايد (báyd), از (iz), تكبيرات (tkbírát), قرائت (qráʾt), نوزده (núzdh) as “six, times, “Alláh-u-Abhá,”, repeat, nineteen”

must 38% should 22% incumbent 22% behooveth 6% beseemeth 3% duty 3% needeth 3% let 3%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §61: behooveth gleaningsGWB §709: It behooveth kitab-i-iqanKIQ §199: must needs prayers-and-meditationsP&M §521: into the wilderness the-hidden-wordsHW §109: With the hands will-and-testamentW&T §25: must be epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §56: It is their duty gleaningsGWB §146: needeth

قرائت

qráʾt q-r-ʾ → “read”

literal: read; recite; reading

recite 20% recited 20% read 20% reading 20% repeat 20%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §10: Recite gleaningsGWB §85: Read it kitab-i-iqanKIQ §185: reading prayers-and-meditationsP&M §810: To be recited tablet-of-ahmadAhmad §15: the one who chants epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §155: “Peruse gleaningsGWB §85: Perused ye not prayers-and-meditationsP&M §684: repeat

نوزده

núzdh n-w-z → “nineteen”

literal: nineteen

nineteen 33% made 33% tender 33%

epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §230: nineteen gleaningsGWB §549: made independent of will-and-testamentW&T §4: tender care

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