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.
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