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| Translation Contest |
| Dear CBs, A few days ago we launched a translation contest. We figured the heavyweights would all weigh in, so to speak, and some already have. We have already received five provisonal translations of the text below. Please feel free to scroll down and see what we've got so far. I don't know if Jonah will want to post these to the provisional section of his Bahai Library site (where I am constantly stuck paying fines), but we are hoping. If not, maybe Juan will post them. If you would like to enter a submsission, you know the mailing address. |
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| Here's the original text |
| Submission Number 1 |
| Que nous sommes les témoins de la déviation actuelle, de la part de l'institution organisationnelle baha'ie qui impose des concepts manifestement corrompus et des innovations qui n'étaient pas contenues dans les Écrits, des concepts intervenus progressivement au cours de décennies lamentables qui ont vu l'aliénation toujours croissante, la crainte, la censure, la contrainte, la déformation, l'altération et d'importants dégâts à cause des stratagèmes de despotes et de dictateurs, politiques et religieux, contre les membres baha'is et la communauté des sympathisants.
FG |
| Submission Number 2 |
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| They're starting to eat their horses inside the fortress; let's stay safely in the trenches and not jump up and charge the cannons. This means that we need to keep doing what we are doing: no committees, manifestos, or unnecessary martyrs. In particular, now is the time to lay on earnest charm.
And, ****, as for you, I do not want any more of these inflammatory statements. You have no independent clout yet apart from whatever your family connections might be, and we will need you for the next generation's fights. There is no point in your getting thrown out now. So lay off the manifesto-making and work on your Arabic verb tables, or I will drop you from Talisman. What is the 8th form feminine plural imperative of Q-R-B JW |
| Submission Number 3 |
| It's too bad that Muhammad did not have the good sense to speak Hebrew, if he did, he would have had the Arabs believing in God instead of that fake named Allah. In fact, he even got the Christian Arabs conned and even they use Allah in their (also fake) Bible. Muslims pretty much suck, especially if they get in the way of Israeli bulldozers in Judea and Samarisa or anywhere else – though they can keep that little shithole known as Gaza. Since the Quran says that the Jews were given the land, it is clear that Muhammad understood that this meant that the Zionists could just do whatever they willeth in Palestine (except Gaza) even if they violate very single human rights convention and all international laws. If only Muhammad had believe in EL, but he chose Allah. What a dumb ass.
AnonMoos |
| Submission Number 4 |
| The Major Plan of God is at work throughout the world, hastening the disintegration of the old order as the new one unfolds. While it is propelling forward a social transformation of a magnitude never before witnessed, fear and uncertainty grip the consciousness of a mojority of the world's people, who remain unaware of God's purpose in this Day. There is a growing sense of a fundemental change of far-reaching dimensions that chills preoccupation with the pleasures and comforts of material existence. In the midst of this turmoil, the Devine Will for humankind is being acheived.
The progress being made by the community of the Greatest Name is a cause for the deepest satisfaction. It's members, undismayed by the surrounding distraction and distress, labour to provide reassurance and insight to those with whom they come in contact, making sure that the confident vision that informs thier actions is not clouded by the limited perspectiove of the mass of humanity. Current world events offer Baha'is an opportunity to demonstrate the application of the remedy brought by the Divine Physician. At this critical moment, we find ourselves compelled to turn to you, our coworkers, to inform you of the pressing need for a marked increase in contributions to the Baha'i International Fund. A great portion of the resources in this Fund is expended outside the Holy Land for the advancement of the Cause of God. These expenditures are of special importance at this time when the Five Year Plan gives every indication of ielding a significant advance in the process of entry by troups in the years ahead. This same Fund must finance the operation of the Baha'i World Centre, the maintenance of the sacred properties of the Holy Land, the conduct of the pilgrimage programme, and the defence and proclamation of the Faith. We now appeal ofr a response to this need from all the followers of Baha'u'llah. Our appeal is addressed to all without exception: those of modest means as well as those who possess substantial resources. You immediate and sustained action is imperative, for the discharge of your spiritual obligation to contribute towards the advancement of the Cause can suffer no delay. The blessings that flow from your sacrificial deeds are assured. The present crisis in the Baha'i International Fund is due, in considerable measure, to the sharp reduction in resources available, consequent to the economic downturn afflicting much of the world. It arises also, in part, from the necessity to provide assistance from the Baha'i Internenational Fund to sustain the work of the Faith in the growing number of countries devistated by warfare, internal division, and endemic poverty. However, a major cause of our present deep concern is the necessit to maintain at the befitting standard, the buildings and gardens at the World Centre. An indication of the increase of costs is that the area of the gardens has now more than doubled. The Baha'i International Fund must not fail to meet these needs. To assist it, we have decided to set up the World Centre Endowment Fund for the preservation, upkeep, and security of the edifices and precincts of the Spiritual and Administrative Centres of the Faith - activities that currently form so large a part of the responsibilities of the Baha'i International Fund. This decision follows the example of Shoghi Effendi, who during his ministry dedicated the income from lands in the environs of the Jordan Valley for the upkep of the Holy Shrines. This Endowment Fund, to which you are urged to contribute, beyond your general support of the Baha'i International Fund, will initially be used to defray the related expenses, estimated at the present time to be seven million dollars annually. Whatever balance remains unexpended at the end of each year will be retained as an earmarked fund and, as it grwos in the years ahead, will provide a continueing source of investment income dedicated to maintaining the magnificent setting of these Holy Places. These precinct were created gradually, during the past centuary, through the sacrificial outpouring of resources by the believers who responded to the vision of Baha'u'llah and supported the strenuous endeavours of the Master and the Guardian. It is essential that this splendour, befitting so sacred a place, be preserved undiminished in the decades and centuries ahead. Our ardent supplication in the Holy Shrines is for the reinforcement of the consecrated endeavors of the lovers of the Blessed Beauty in every land, as they respond to the needs of the ever-advancing cause of God. The Universal House of Justice |
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