Abu Madyan

1126–1198 / Spain / Cantillana

Say Allah

Say Allah! and leave existence and all it contains
if your aspiration is to reach completeness
For everything other than Allah, if you verify its truth
is nothingness, in its detail and in its totality and summation
And know that you, and all the worlds
if it were not for Him, would have been eliminated, fading and disappearing
He who does not exist because of himself by cause of himself
then his existence without Him is utter impossibility
The gnostics faded and did not witness
anything except The Supreme in Greatness, The Majestic, The Most Exalted
and they saw everything else other than Him in its truth as perishing
either immediately, in the past, and in the future to come
So glimpse with your mind or with your sight: do you see
anything other than an act from among the acts?
And look at the height of existence and at its base
with a sight that you support by reasoning and interpretation,
you find everything pointing towards His Majesty
with what it displays by its status or by its words
while He is holding everything from its top to
its bottom, and creating them, without a similar or an equal
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