O Allah! Glory Be To You! Poem by Mohammad Younus

O Allah! Glory be to you!
You are The Transcendent Reality!
Your resplendent beauty is the source of light!
Your sweet words like springs of delightful music!
The numerous galaxies in fathomless space bright...
...draw their light and splendor from your source of light;
By your dazzling light Mansur and Nasimi were stricken with awe;
One reddened with his blood the gallows in Bagdad;
Another was executed and skinned alive in Damaskus;
One proclaimed: 'I am the truth!
Another saw your gorgeous features in Man!
The religion of belief in the Single-reality...
...but they did not shun!
To the feet of such knowers of the Absolute Unity...
...the angels - save Iblis - humbly bow their head;
Iblis refuses and runs away...
...because in Adam your reality he can not see;
You are really the Essence of your Creation!
A precious pearl hidden in the shell!
It is your command Be that raises the dead to life;
Your command Be brings into existence from non existence;
Your world of manifestation is a looking-glass...
...for seeing into it your reality;
And in it the people with divine eyes take continual delight;
He who does not see the presence of the real...
...in Your manifestation is blind!
O Allah, show me the truth as truth, and guide me to follow it;
Show me the false as false, and guide me to avoid it!
Āmēn!

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