Sol 5.6

  1. O Hidden One of the Essence, You are hidden without concealment,

    inwardly beyond thoughts and contemplation.

  2. You are hidden through forgiving sins and pardoning them,

    and through absolute knowledge of every reality.

  3. You are too inwardly hidden to resemble any created thing

    by definition, formal description, or any form.

  4. You are hidden through forming all realities

    and concealing what You have deposited in inwardness.

  5. You are hidden, through the sanctity of the Essence, from all alien to it:

    from where-ness, modality, and temporality.

  6. You are hidden beyond imagination and fancy, my Lord,

    and by nature beyond any likeness, intelligible or sensible.

  7. You are hidden, my God, absolutely through Your gracious favor,

    and through annihilating whatever creatures You brought into being.

  8. You are hidden with an inwardness—not by being veiled behind a veil.

    My God, the Real’s hiddenness lies in Absolute Self-Sufficiency.

  9. You are hidden through adorning the paths of right guidance

    and awakening discernment through the sacred vision.

  10. You are hidden: neither sense nor intellect can grasp

    in this world or the next, the very essence of Reality.

  11. So sanctify my inward being with the light of the Hidden Real,

    and grant me disclosure of the concealed inward mysteries.

Sol 5.6