The Seventeenth Word

 

Second table

 

(This table describes the true spirit of the world of the people of guidance and peace.)

 

Heedlessness has disappeared;

I have seen the light of truth to be manifest.

 

Existence is a proof of Divine Being.

See, life is the mirror reflecting The Truth.

 

Intellect has become the key to treasuries.

See, mortality is the door to eternity.

 

The spark of self-attainment has died.

But see, there is the sun of grace and beauty.

 

Separation has become true union;

See, pain is pure pleasure.

 

Life has become pure action.

See, eternity is pure life.

 

Darkness is a thin membrane enclosing light.

See, there is true life in death.

 

All things have become familiar.

See, all sounds are the mentioning of God.

 

All the particles in creation:

See, each glorifies God and calls Him by His Names.

 

I have found poverty to be a treasury of wealth.

See, in impotence lies perfect power.

 

If you have found God,

See, all things are yours.

 

If you are a slave of the Owner of all things,

See His property is yours.

 

If you are egotist and claim self-ownership,

See, it is endless trial and tribulation.

 

It is infinite torment, taste it,

See, it is an unbearable calamity.

 

If you are truly a slave of God, devoted to Him,

See, it is an infinite delight.

 

Taste its uncountable rewards,

See the boundless bliss; experience it.

 

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi