Tuesday, July 5, 2011

something that is neither yours nor from yourself







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To belong to Allah
Is to see in your own existence
And in all that pertains to it
Something that is neither yours
Nor from yourself,
Something you have on loan;
To see your being in His Being,
Your subsistence in His Subsistence,
Your strength in His Strength:
Thus you will recognize in yourself
His title to possession of you
As Lord,
And your own title as servant:
Which is Nothingness. 



~ Thomas Merton
in response to writings of  Ibn Abbad



1 comments:

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