I Sat Facing The Qibla For Hours... Poem by Mohammad Younus

I sat facing the Qibla for hours...
...but didn't see you;
Nor did I hear your speech in human language;
Then finally you made me hear your unspoken word;
Removed from delusion and sleep...
...I saw Oneness smiling at me from all the sides;
I was neither inside nor outside the clay frame;
I stopped to point at the unseen;
I looked deeper and found to my amazement...
...that two beings - the seer and the seen -
are actually one and the same;
That He is only seen by Himself!
Look deeper! The mystery calls and calls me:
When I seek him, I do not find him;
When I find him (oneness) , I leave seeking;
I know only one thing that he cannot be seen;
To me the witness of the Oneness
annihilates...
...the crazy desire to witness him;
As Galib says;
In reality...
...the witnessing, the witnesser, and the witnessed...
...are one and the same;
Only Oneness! No Trinity!

MyKoul