And as His Essence all the world pervades <br />Naught in Creation is, save this alone. <br />Upon the waters has He fixed His Throne, <br />This earth suspended in the starry space, <br />Yet what are seas and what is air? For all <br />Is God, and but a talisman are heaven and earth <br />To veil Divinity. For heaven and earth, <br />Did He not permeate them, were but names; <br />Know then, that both this visible world and that <br />Which unseen is, alike are God Himself, <br />Naught is, save God: and all that is, is God. <br /> <br /> <br />And yet, alas! by how few is He seen, <br />Blind are men's eyes, though all resplendent shines <br />The world by Deity's own light illumined, <br />0 Thou whom man perceiveth not, although <br />To him Thou deignest to make known Thyself; <br />Thou all Creation art, all we behold, but Thou, <br />The soul within the body lies concealed, <br />And Thou dost hide Thyself within the soul, <br />0 soul in soul! Myst'ry in myst'ry hid! <br />Before all wert Thou, and are more than all!<br /><br />Farīd ud-Dīn Attar Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhī<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-pervading-consciousness/
