Prayers and Meditations — §755
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 755 of 858.
Source (Arabic)
كُلَّ كِتابٍ مِنْها مُبَشِّرًا بِظُهُوريْ وَناطِقًا بِاسْمي وَشاهِدًا لِنَفْسِي وَمُنَادِيًا بِأَمْرِيْ وَذِكْرِيْ وَطُلوعي وَإِشْراقي، وَمَعَ إِعْلانِكَ يا إِلهِي وَبَيانِكَ يا مَحْبُوبِي سَمِعْتَ وَرَأَيْتَ ما قالُوا فِي حَقِّيْ وَارْتَكبُوا فِي أَيَّامِيْ، أَيْ رَبِّ أَشْهَدُ فِي مَوْقِفِي هذا رَغْمًا لِمَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَنْكَ أَنَّكَ أَنْتَ اللَّهُ لا إِلهَ إِلاَّ أَنْتَ، وَهذا يَوْمُكَ الَّذِي تَزَيَّنَ بِذِكْرِهِ صَحَائِفُكَ وَكُتُبُكَ وَأَلْواحُكَ
Shoghi Effendi Translation
I swear by Thy glory, O Thou Who beholdest me from Thine all-glorious horizon, and hearest the voice of the Lote-Tree beyond which there is no passing! Should any one consider Thy Books which Thou didst name the Bayán, and ponder in his heart what hath been revealed therein, he would discover that each of these Books announceth my Revelation, and declareth my Name, and testifieth to my Self, and proclaimeth my Cause, and my Praise, and my Rising, and the radiance of my Glory. And yet, notwithstanding Thy proclamation, O my God, and in spite of the words Thou didst utter, O my Beloved, Thou hast seen and heard their calumnies against me, and their evil doings in my days.
Translation Notes
SE expanded to “of these Books”
book 85% kitáb-i-íqán 2% tablet 2% words 2% text 2% kitáb-i-aqdas 1% writing 1% bayán 1% divinely 1% holy 1%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: statutes of Thy BookgleaningsGWB §467: He accusedkitab-i-ahdAhd §15: Holy Writkitab-i-iqanKIQ §224: Mímprayers-and-meditationsP&M §771: Thou hast writtenthe-hidden-wordsHW §68: have writtenwill-and-testamentW&T §34: Thou didst revealepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §133: with a Book
This form usually rendered as “forerunner”, “herald”, “bringest” (18 occurrences)
forerunner 25% herald 13% bringest 13% harbinger 13% heralded 6% heralding 6% foretold 6% announcer 6% manifested 6% announceth 6%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §100: gladnessgleaningsGWB §188: proclaimedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §74: of the humanprayers-and-meditationsP&M §301: didst announcethe-hidden-wordsHW §33: a messenger of joywill-and-testamentW&T §35: rejoicedepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §210: EvangelgleaningsGWB §615: have announced
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §33: vindicatingfire-tabletFire §12: DayspringgleaningsGWB §362: outward behaviorkitab-i-ahdAhd §8: daysprings of authority and sourceskitab-i-iqanKIQ §154: of God’s Revelationprayers-and-meditationsP&M §602: the revealerstablet-of-ahmadAhmad §8: to assisttablet-of-carmelCarmel §4: Revelation—a Revelation
This form usually rendered as “uttering”, “speak”, “utterance” (52 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “myself”, “soul”, “one” (224 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §4: the Divine Voicefire-tabletFire §48: Thy CallgleaningsGWB §27: declarekitab-i-iqanKIQ §269: call of theprayers-and-meditationsP&M §283: I cry outtablet-of-carmelCarmel §1: calling aloudtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §49: And raised the callepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §100: My voice
cause 17% revelation 17% mission 17% act 8% recorded 8% commandment 8% things 8% happenings 8% god’s 8%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §120: things such asgleaningsGWB §107: Divine Revelationkitab-i-iqanKIQ §72: wondrousprayers-and-meditationsP&M §807: had been prescribedtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §4: commandswill-and-testamentW&T §18: of the Causeepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §128: rulersgleaningsGWB §331: ordaineth
remembrance 17% mention 17% praise 17% warning 8% account 8% give 8% remember 8% remembered 8% mentioned 8%
This form usually rendered as “rising” (1 occurrences)
dayspring 31% dawning-place 16% daysprings 15% source 8% manifestation 6% countenance 6% revealers 5% dawning-places 5% revealer 5% exponents 5%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §5: the sourcefire-tabletFire §16: embodimentsgleaningsGWB §506: and partakekitab-i-iqanKIQ §16: can never hope to recognizeprayers-and-meditationsP&M §122: to be the Dayspringtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §17: May knowthe-hidden-wordsHW §25: before the countenancewill-and-testamentW&T §5: the angelic company
radiance 67% effulgence 33%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §224: illuminedfire-tabletFire §14: Dawning PlacegleaningsGWB §286: withinkitab-i-iqanKIQ §217: uttermost cornersprayers-and-meditationsP&M §160: Lightstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §42: to illuminethe-hidden-wordsHW §103: realmsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §106: shone forth
SE expanded to “And yet, notwithstanding”
This form usually rendered as “proclamation” (1 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: Best-Beloved of the nationsfire-tabletFire §7: of Thy lovegleaningsGWB §640: them that love Him,”kitab-i-iqanKIQ §15: the lustprayers-and-meditationsP&M §63: Thy servantstablet-of-carmelCarmel §1: a Daytablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §40: the Beloved Onethe-hidden-wordsHW §6: Love Me
SE expanded to “hast seen and heard”
SE rendered مَحْبُوبِي (maḥbúbí), سَمِعْتَ (samiʿt), وَرَأَيْتَ (waraʾayt), قالُوا (qálúá), حَقِّيْ (ḥaqqí) as “my Beloved, hast seen and heard, against me”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §132: beholdfire-tabletFire §26: seestgleaningsGWB §187: may recognizeprayers-and-meditationsP&M §491: behold themthe-hidden-wordsHW §62: thou mayest obtainwill-and-testamentW&T §5: behold himepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §135: gazedgleaningsGWB §163: of the vision
SE rendered مَحْبُوبِي (maḥbúbí), سَمِعْتَ (samiʿt), وَرَأَيْتَ (waraʾayt), قالُوا (qálúá), حَقِّيْ (ḥaqqí), وَارْتَكبُوا (wártakbúá) as “my Beloved, hast seen and heard, against me, their evil doings”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §138: in truthgleaningsGWB §102: realitykitab-i-ahdAhd §3: righteousnesskitab-i-iqanKIQ §17: significanceprayers-and-meditationsP&M §344: meritthe-hidden-wordsHW §137: of your deservingwill-and-testamentW&T §27: Itepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §79: God, the True One
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §194: perpetratedgleaningsGWB §499: commit vile and contemptiblekitab-i-iqanKIQ §182: have wroughtprayers-and-meditationsP&M §118: who have enteredtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §3: let the angelic spirits enterthe-hidden-wordsHW §29: committethepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §92: committedgleaningsGWB §300: have wittingly broken
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §88: to daygleaningsGWB §205: wondrous Daykitab-i-iqanKIQ §23: timeprayers-and-meditationsP&M §216: Judgment Daywill-and-testamentW&T §47: daytimeepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §79: when all the tribesgleaningsGWB §245: the few remaining dayskitab-i-iqanKIQ §274: His
SE rendered وَارْتَكبُوا (wártakbúá), أَيَّامِيْ، (ʾayyámí،), رَبِّ (rabb), أَشْهَدُ (ʾashhad) as “their evil doings, my days”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §229: educatedgleaningsGWB §548: unfadingkitab-i-iqanKIQ §28: divine decreeprayers-and-meditationsP&M §521: of Thy sovereigntytablet-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 §168: her Lord
SE rendered رَبِّ (rabb), أَشْهَدُ (ʾashhad), مَوْقِفِي (mawqifí), رَغْمًا (raghman) as “in spite”
hesitated 21% hesitate 16% tarry 11% hesitation 11% established 11% stand 11% place 5% remain 5% fully 5% vacillation 5%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §173: tarryfire-tabletFire §28: doth My pen haltgleaningsGWB §568: hesitated and haltedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §280: tarriedprayers-and-meditationsP&M §169: had been reckoned amongstepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §37: I laygleaningsGWB §230: standkitab-i-iqanKIQ §85: have not grasped
4 occurrences in corpus
SE rendered مَوْقِفِي (mawqifí), رَغْمًا (raghman), لِمَنْ (liman) as “in spite”
SE rendered رَغْمًا (raghman), لِمَنْ (liman), أَعْرَضَ (ʾaʿraḍ) as “in spite”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §136: who hast turned awaygleaningsGWB §486: withdrawkitab-i-iqanKIQ §12: fierce oppositionprayers-and-meditationsP&M §737: they have broken offtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §14: turns awaythe-hidden-wordsHW §22: hast thou turned awaywill-and-testamentW&T §17: hathepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §166: turn aside
SE rendered رَغْمًا (raghman), لِمَنْ (liman), أَعْرَضَ (ʾaʿraḍ), عَنْكَ (ʿank) as “in spite”
concerning 10% whatsoever 10% beyond 10% well 10% fear 10% all 10% entering 10% behind 10% recognizing 10% above 10%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §85: concerninggleaningsGWB §572: from enteringprayers-and-meditationsP&M §251: from recognizing Theeepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §92: from whatsoevergleaningsGWB §572: of all attachment toprayers-and-meditationsP&M §396: Now thatepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §157: togleaningsGWB §155: from the
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §88: Such agleaningsGWB §86: This istablet-of-ahmadAhmad §7: thesetablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §57: and thiswill-and-testamentW&T §36: in these troubled timesepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §106: ThisgleaningsGWB §520: the thingstablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §12: Wherein
SE rendered صَحَائِفُكَ (ṣaḥáʾifuk), وَكُتُبُكَ (wakutubuk) as “Books”
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §155: the BooksgleaningsGWB §323: the sacred Scriptureskitab-i-iqanKIQ §245: epistlesprayers-and-meditationsP&M §784: Scrollsepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §255: scripturesgleaningsGWB §586: the sealed and mystic Scrollprayers-and-meditationsP&M §28: the companionepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §188: Books
SE rendered وَكُتُبُكَ (wakutubuk), وَأَلْواحُكَ (waʾalwáḥuk) as “Books”
tablets 88% scriptures 13%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §119: the TabletgleaningsGWB §689: writingskitab-i-iqanKIQ §249: Tablet”prayers-and-meditationsP&M §756: the Preserved Tablettablet-of-ahmadAhmad §3: the Bookswill-and-testamentW&T §1: in the Preserved Tabletepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §218: the Lawh-i-Fu’adgleaningsGWB §286: No
