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“In the Name of God, the Most High! Lauded…” |
In the Name of God, the Most High! Lauded
and glorified art Thou, Lord, God Omnipotent!
Thou before Whose wisdom the wise falleth
short and faileth, before Whose knowledge the
learned confesseth his ignorance, before Whose
might the strong waxeth weak, before Whose
wealth the rich testifieth to his poverty, before
Whose light the enlightened is lost in darkness,
toward the shrine of Whose knowledge turneth
the essence of all understanding and around the
sanctuary of Whose presence circle the souls of all
mankind.
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How then can I sing and tell of Thine Essence,
which the wisdom of the wise and the learning of
the learned have failed to comprehend, inasmuch
as no man can sing that which he understandeth
not, nor recount that unto which he cannot attain,
whilst Thou hast been from everlasting the Inaccessible,
the Unsearchable. Powerless though I
be to rise to the heavens of Thy glory and soar in
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the realms of Thy knowledge, I can but recount
Thy tokens that tell of Thy glorious handiwork.
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By Thy Glory! O Beloved of all hearts, Thou
that alone canst still the pangs of yearning for
Thee! Though all the dwellers of heaven and earth
unite to glorify the least of Thy signs, wherein
and whereby Thou hast revealed Thyself, yet
would they fail, how much more to praise Thy
holy Word, the creator of all Thy tokens.
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All praise and glory be to Thee, Thou of Whom
all things have testified that Thou art one and there
is none other God but Thee, Who hast been from
everlasting exalted above all peer or likeness and
to everlasting shalt remain the same. All kings are
but Thy servants and all beings, visible and invisible,
as naught before Thee. There is none other
God but Thee, the Gracious, the Powerful, the
Most High.
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