Sol 5.6

  1. My God, You are the Inheritor, the King, absolutely;

    by virtue of Your being, You remain after all creation,

  2. although not a single atom ever passed from You

    of all dominion, in pre-eternity or everlastingness.

  3. Your servant, and the dominion You have bestowed

    upon him through it, are within the sovereign grasp.

  4. Yours are the dominion and the king whose affair is governed,

    without any notion of inheritance being transferred.

  5. Your being the best of inheritors is a sign of

    continuance, and that there is no bound to divine self-sufficiency.

  6. Your saying, “We are the inheritors,” is a majesty

    exalted above need and contingency.

  7. Your causing the creature to inherit dominion is a blessing,

    although it never departed from You for a moment.

  8. The creature’s dominion is nothing but an attribution,

    figurative within the everlasting grasp.

  9. Dominion—and the dominion of all possessors—has its destination

    in You, though they never possessed so much as an ant’s measure.

  10. Thus no claim retains any basis whatsoever

    upon Your dominion; every claim has failed and gone astray.

  11. O Inheritor, cause me to inherit knowledge and purity,

    and the adornment of the people of knowledge, the people of truth.

Sol 5.6