Tablet of Aḥmad — §16
Arabic source with Shoghi Effendi’s authorized English translation. Paragraph 16 of 17.
Source (Arabic)
فَوَ اللهِ مَنْ كَانَ فِي شِدَّةٍ أَوْ حُزْنٍ وَيَقْرَأُ هَذَا ٱلْلَّوْحَ بِصِدْقٍ مُبِينٍ يَرْفَعُ اللهُ حُزْنَهُ وَيَكْشِفُ ضُرَّهُ وَيُفَرِّجُ كَرْبَهُ
Shoghi Effendi Translation
By God! Should one who is in affliction or grief read this Tablet with absolute sincerity, God will dispel his sadness, solve his difficulties and remove his afflictions.
Translation Notes
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §133: I adjure thee by Godfire-tabletFire §41: after GodgleaningsGWB §64: Bahákitab-i-ahdAhd §10: the divine Testatorkitab-i-iqanKIQ §164: mysticprayers-and-meditationsP&M §205: and the Godtablet-of-the-holy-marinerMariner §31: “By the Lordthe-hidden-wordsHW §154: heaven
sorrow 25% grief 15% sadden 10% sadness 10% sorrows 10% anguish 10% saddened 5% tribulation 5% despondency 5% affliction 5%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §142: saddenedfire-tabletFire §12: SorrowsgleaningsGWB §186: My sorrowskitab-i-iqanKIQ §59: despondencyprayers-and-meditationsP&M §3: shall not be put to grieftablet-of-ahmadAhmad §11: afflictionthe-hidden-wordsHW §95: griefswill-and-testamentW&T §34: as they bewailed
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §196: My TabletsgleaningsGWB §198: Scriptureskitab-i-iqanKIQ §41: in symbolic languageprayers-and-meditationsP&M §154: risentablet-of-ahmadAhmad §3: the Bookswill-and-testamentW&T §7: a documentepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §217: hath shed its splendorgleaningsGWB §519: in His most holy and exalted Tablet
truth 60% truthfulness 20% truthful 4% truly 4% uprightness 2% hath 2% undoubted 2% manifest 2% sincerity 2% justly 2%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §257: acknowledgegleaningsGWB §39: speak the truthkitab-i-iqanKIQ §154: regarded as possessed ofprayers-and-meditationsP&M §665: truth,”tablet-of-ahmadAhmad §16: with absolute sinceritywill-and-testamentW&T §19: assentingepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §136: sinceregleaningsGWB §621: with truthfulness
SE rendered ٱلْلَّوْحَ (lllawḥ), بِصِدْقٍ (biṣidqin), مُبِينٍ (mubínin), يَرْفَعُ (yarfaʿ), اللهُ (al-lh), حُزْنَهُ (ḥuznah) as “Tablet, with absolute sincerity, dispel, God, sadness”
manifest 30% palpable 12% resplendent 9% expounder 9% luminous 9% evident 7% lucid 7% perspicuous 7% clear 5% plainly 5%
This form usually rendered as “hoist”, “exalt”, “exalteth” (10 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “relieve”, “remove”, “solve” (3 occurrences)
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §177: made apparentgleaningsGWB §285: have been rent asunderkitab-i-iqanKIQ §64: unfoldethprayers-and-meditationsP&M §511: Clear awaytablet-of-ahmadAhmad §16: solveepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §189: visiongleaningsGWB §139: uncoveredkitab-i-iqanKIQ §128: discover
harm 33% hurt 13% trouble 7% woe 7% pernicious 7% sorely 7% injury 7% manifold 7% malice 7% afflictions 7%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §9: can harmgleaningsGWB §469: the burden of Our woekitab-i-iqanKIQ §130: in no wise damageprayers-and-meditationsP&M §308: and the malicetablet-of-ahmadAhmad §16: difficultieswill-and-testamentW&T §35: troublesepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §7: to harm TheegleaningsGWB §488: the destitution from which We suffer
وَيُفَرِّجُ
literal: relief/deliverance; relieve; contemplation
This form usually rendered as “remove” (1 occurrences)
This form usually rendered as “afflictions” (1 occurrences)
distressed 20% cherubim 20% karbilá’i 10% mine 10% afflictions 10% distress 10% dwellers 10% cares 10%
epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §234: as Karbilá’igleaningsGWB §594: for the distressedkitab-i-iqanKIQ §86: Cherubimprayers-and-meditationsP&M §649: mine anguishtablet-of-ahmadAhmad §9: distressthe-hidden-wordsHW §154: dwellers of the realms abovewill-and-testamentW&T §35: my caresepistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolfESW §149: the distressed
