Yes the example I gave was regarding the name of the book "Bayan".
I don't know in english, but in french we have so many baha'i words
absolutly impossible to understand without an annex to explain their sense
("le covenant", les "petites branches" et "grandes branches"... even the
"Maison Universelle de Justice" looks like a U.N. Agency in the french
understanding!)
I just think that this kind of obscurancy doesn't help french people to be
interested in Baha'i faith and ideas!
Cheers,
Loïc
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Subject: Re: limits of hikmat, righteous warfare, jihad, etc.
A simple word of the Faith : the "Bayan", which
could be
easily translated in french by "l'Annonce" or "l'Explication", but
people
are so afraid to translate that they keep the "Bayan" in their
writings.
Dear Loic,
When it appears in the Writings we do translate it, normally
as 'utterance' as in 'wisdom and utterance' [hikmat va bayan.] But I
think you are talking about the name of the book "Bayan." It is kept
in the original because it is seen as a proper name like Qur'an which
literally means 'recitation' or 'reading.'
warmest, Susan
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