Sol 5.6

  1. My Lord’s affairs arise through the changing of my breaths,

    as existence comes from Him, since all I possess is utter poverty.

  2. His turning His attention to me, from me, through time, is among what

    is in the cosmos, save the generosity of jinn and humankind,

  3. because of whatever weight is incompatible with the nascent being’s existence.

    Were that weight light, we would be the crown upon the head;

  4. yet because of it we are like the two sandals at my feet,

    in continual turning—or like the towering one, rooted fast.

  5. In the calf’s creation lies a proof for one possessed of insight,

    concerning al-Sāmirī; and there is no harm in the matter.

Sol 5.6