Ibn' Arabi ~ Alone with the Alone
Hear, O My beloved!
You are the reason for the being of the world
You are the center-point of the sphere and its encompassing
You are its complexity and simplicity
You are the order brought down between heaven and earth
I did not create for you realizations
except that you realize Me in them
And when you realize Me, you realize yourself
Do not strive to realize Me in the realization of yourself
By My Eye you will see Me and yourself
You will not see Me by the eye of yourself
Beloved,
How often have I called you
and you do not hear
How often have I stood before you
and you do not witness Me
How often have I embodied Myself in sense
and you do not inhale
and in the flavors and you do not savor the taste
for My sake
What is the matter with you
that you do not feel Me when you touch?
Why do you not recognize Me in the fragrances of musk?
Why do you not see Me? Why do you not hear Me?
What is the matter with you!
What is the matter with you!
I Am your most heady rupture
beyond any delight
My craving for you is more intense
than any born for an object of desire
I Am better for you
than any good thing
I Am the Beautiful
I Am the Elegant
Love Me, Love Me
Love Me alone
Desire Me ardently
Be consumed in Me,
not engrossed in other than Me
Take Me in,
Receive Me
You will not find an intimate like Me
Everything wants you for itself
but I want you for your sake
But you, you avoid Me
Beloved,
You can not meet Me half-way
in your drawing close to Me
My drawing close to you outweighs a hundredfold
of means by which you approach Me
I Am closer to you than your self
And your self, which performs these acts,
is other than Me, created.
Beloved,
I am jealous of you, from you
I can not bear to see you
with otherness or with yourself
Be with Me in Me
With yourself just as you are with Me
Then My Beloved
you will not even feel the Union.
The Union!
Had we found a path towards separation
We would let the separation savor separation
Beloved,
Come, hand in hand,
enter reality that it may decide
between us with a judgment of eternity
Beloved antagonist,
pleasure can not be found
in dispute between lovers
pleasure is in the converse
O heart,
O heart
~ Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi ~
(Translated by Abraham Abadi and Aaron Cass)
