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I asked for news of You from all I met.

     Then I saw You

     ~Through myself,

     And found we were identical.

Now I blush to think

     I ever searched for signs of You.

“O You who are so unbearably beautiful,

     Whose beloved are You?” I asked.

     “My own,” He replied;

     “For I am one and one alone-

      Love, lover, beloved, mirror, beauty, eye.”

I sought solitude with my loved one,

     Yet find there is no one here but myself.

     And if there were a “someone else,”

     Then, truly I should not have attainted her.

I am the one I love;

     He whom I love is I

     Two, yet in a single body.

If I have become the Beloved.

     Who is the lover?

Beloved, Love, and lover-three in one;

     There is no place for union here,

     So, what is this talk of “separation?”

Hunter, prey, bait, and trap;

     Candle, candlestick, flame, and moth;

     Beloved, lover, soul and soul’s desire;

     Inebriation, drinker, wine, and cup ~

All is He!

 If You are everything,

     Then, who are all these people?

And if I am nothing,

     What’s all this noise about?

You are the totality;

     Everything is You. Agreed!

Then, all that is “other-than You”~

     What is it?

Oh, indeed I know, nothing exists but You.

     But tell me, whence all this confusion?

Listen riff-raff:

Do you want to be ALL?

Then go ~ go and become nothing!  

                                ~Fakhrud’din Iraqi: Divine Flashes