Know that He is never in anything, nor is anything in Him.

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There is speaking but no "speaker" thereof.

 

One such speaking occurred through an instrument labled Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi,

who the audience in the 13th century, believed to be a Sufi Master.

 

(In this speaking, the terms "He","Him", are only terms used to refer, there is

no connotation to what is known, as the "Male".

 

 

 

 

 

Know that He is never in anything, nor is anything in Him.

 

He is neither inside nor outside of anything.

None can see Him, whether with the eyes of the head or with the inner eye; nor

can any conceive Him with senses, knowledge, mind,

intelligence or imagination.

 

Only He can see Himself; only He can conceive Himself. None can know Him; only

He can know

Himself.

 

He sees Himself by Himself; He conceives Himself by Himself; He knows Himself by

Himself.

None other than He can see Him.

None other than He can know Him.

 

That which hides Him is His oneness.

None but Himself can hide Him.

The veil that hides Him is His own being.

 

He is not within you; nor are you in Him.

He does not exclude you, nor are you excluded from Him.

 

When you are addressed as you, do not think that you exist, with an essence and

qualities and attributes;

for you never existed, nor do exist, nor ever will exist.

You have not entered into Him, nor He intoyou.

 

Without being, your essence is with Him and in Him.

 

Without having any identity, you are Him and He is you.

If you know yourself as nothing, then you truly know your Lord.

Otherwise, you truly know Him not.

 

 

That is why the utterance became permissible for Mansur Al- Hallaj when the

words, "I am the Truth!" came from his lips;

and for Abu Yazid Al-Bistami when he cried, "Praise be to Me, the essence,

absolved of all defect!"

 

These are not people who have annihilated themselves in Allah; nor have they

come to be in Allah.

They are eternal.

They never ceased to be, for they never were, since there is only Allah's self,

Allah's essence.

 

So if someone says, "I am the Truth!," do not hear it from any other than from

the Truth Himself; for it is not a man who says

it, it is the word of Allah.

 

That man who utters these words is nothing but an image reflected in an empty

mirror, one of the infinite attributes of Allah.

 

The reflection is the same as that which is being reflected, and the words of

the image are the reflected words of the Real One.

 

 

 

 

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