Dear John This is worth writing to the Research Department about It may already have been responded to.
With humility whatever be His Divine Utterance kf -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Bromberek Sent: 14 January 2007 16:10 To: Baha'i Studies Subject: Suratu'l-Haykal & W.O.B. p. 117 Greetings, I'm wondering whether anyone can enlighten me as to the reason for the absence from the 2002 translation of the Suratu'l-Haykal of the two lines Shoghi Effendi quotes on page 117 of the World Order of Baha'u'llah: "I am not apprehensive for My own self," Bahá'u'lláh still more explicitly declares, "My fears are for Him Who will be sent down unto you after Me -- Him Who will be invested with great sovereignty and mighty dominion." And again He writes in the Suratu'l-Haykal: "By those words which I have revealed, Myself is not intended, but rather He Who will come after Me. To it is witness God, the All-Knowing." "Deal not with Him," He adds, "as ye have dealt with Me." (Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Baha'u'llah, p. 117) At least, I haven't been able to find those last two lines in the published translation. Is there another Tablet of the same name, or is this 2002 translation abridged? In notes attached to a translation of the same Tablet by Anton Haddad http://bahai-library.com/index.php5?file=bahaullah_surih_haykal_haddad there is an association made between the sentence: "Deal not with Him as ye have dealt with Me." and Haddad's translation: "Beware not to do with Me that which ye have done with My Precursor [(the Bab)]", But, why it was believed one could substitute one "translation" for the other is not clear. In fact, the authorized translation doesn't do this. On page 42 of "The Summons of the Lord of Hosts" the sentence is translated much as Haddad did: "Beware lest ye deal with Me as ye dealt with My Herald." Indeed "WOB 117" is nowhere listed in the back of "Summons" among the "Key to Passages Translated by Shoghi Effendi". A related question: It is also unclear where the first line of the above passage (WOB 117) is being quoted from. Possibly it is from the Suriy-i-Sabr quoted in the previous paragraph, but the source is not explicitly identified. John B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto ("e-mail") is sent by the Johnson County Community College ("JCCC") and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify JCCC by email reply and immediately and permanently delete this e-mail message and any attachments thereto. Thank you. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
