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No one speaks (from The Poem of the Sufi Way)
No one speaks unless his speech is from mine; no one sees but by the gaze of my eye.
No one listens unless listening by my ear; no one grasps but by my might and strength.
No one is speaking, seeing, hearing in all of creation but me!
In the composite world, I appeared deep within every shape and form adorning them with beauty.
While in every subtle sense not revealed by my visible guise, I was conceived and formed but without a body's shape.
Yet in what the spirit sees clairvoyantly, I was rarified, concealed from this subtle sense confined.
In the mercy of expansion, all of me is a wish expanding wide the hopes of humanity,
While in the dread of contraction all of me is awe; wherever I cast my eye, I am honored.
In joining both attributes all of me is proximity; come, draw near my inner beauty.
For in the end-place of "in," I still found with me my majesty of witness arising from my perfect nature,
And where there is no "in," I still witnessed within me the beauty of my existence without an eye to see.
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