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Islamic Hymn

Glorious are You, in Your

Aloneness, Your

Pale eternal splendor

Beckons, in whose

Depthless light my shadow

Burns:

Hold me in Your moving stillness;

Let my night pass in

Your day.

Sublime are You, whose

Beauty burns in all Being,

Exalting all substance

Through the far corners;

Who breathed Your light

First on the face of formlessness, and last

On the forms of Human Reason.

Serene are You, in Your

Otherness, Your

Yearning depth embraces me;

Your knowing pales before itself:

Enthroned in realmlessness,

Your wisdom’s endless sea

Is adrift in my tears.

Absolute are You:

The pavilions of Night wear Your perfect Form;

From East and West Your lanterns rise:

Light upon light.

World upon world are You, Knower

Of destiny, harbinger

Of Time’s still path;

Who finds me bowed

In the rhythms of fate;

Your splendor, it is in both worlds,

Your light, it fills the far corners of Being:

Here, all is You; there, all is You.