Listen, O dearly beloved!
I am the reality of the
world, the center of the circumference,
I am the parts and the whole.
I am the will established
between Heaven and Earth,
I have created perception in
you only in order to be the object of My Perception.
If then you perceive Me, you
perceive yourself.
But you cannot perceive Me
through yourself.
It is through My Eyes that
you see Me and see yourself,
Through your eyes you cannot
see Me.
Dearly beloved!
I have called you so often
and you have not heard Me.
I have shown Myself to you so
often and you have not seen Me.
I have made Myself fragrance
so often, and you have not smelled Me,
Savories food, and you have
not tasted Me.
Why can you not reach Me
through the object you touch
Or breathe Me through sweet
perfumes?
Why do you not see Me? Why do
you not hear Me?
Why? Why? Why?
For you My delights surpass
all other delights,
And the pleasure I procure
you surpasses all other pleasures.
For you I am preferable to
all other good things,
I am Beauty, I am Grace.
Love Me, love Me alone.
Love yourself in Me, in Me
alone.
Attach yourself to Me,
No one is more inward than I.
Others love you for their own
sakes,
I love you for yourself.
And you, you flee from Me.
Dearly beloved!
You cannot treat Me fairly,
For if you approach Me,
It is because I have
approached you.
I am nearer to you than
yourself,
Than your soul, than your
breath.
Who among creatures
Would treat you as I do?
I am jealous of you, over
you,
I want you to belong to no
other,
Not even to yourself.
Be Mine, be for Me as you are
in Me,
Though you are not even aware
of it.
Dearly beloved!
Let us go toward Union.
And if we find the road
That leads to separation,
We will destroy separation.
Let us go hand in hand.
Let us enter the presence of
Truth.
Let It be our judge
And imprint Its seal upon our
union
Forever.
From: Henri Corbin. Creative
Sufism ‘Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi,
p. 174-75
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