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La Elaha Ella’Llah

The face of God,

          He, of grandeur:

La elaha ella’Llah


Remembrance at every moment,

          with every breath:

La elaha ella’Llah


No one but He can enter into the sanctuary of

          His essence, source of His attributes:

La elaha ella’Llah


He is in all that appears; He enraptures all realms;

          He is the king of the world of being:

La elaha ella’Llah


Across all the levels of being, He provides drunkenness and wine;

          He is the heart and the heart’s beloved:

La elaha ella’Llah


His essence is manifested in all beings;

          He is the light of the sun and the essence of the moon:

La elaha ella’Llah


Creatures in the realm of possibility have come to existence

          through His generosity and the breath of His being:

La elaha ella’Llah


He parades His beauty everywhere in a scandalous guise;

          His name is upon all lips:

La elaha ella’Llah


He knows His own magnificence

          and the boundlessness of His essence:

La elaha ella’Llah


Lovers are drunk from Him;

          mystics are dust at His threshold:

La elaha ella’Llah


Although well-hidden, He is the bestower of light to the soul;

          He is Joseph unseen in the well:

La elaha ella’Llah

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