Sol 6.1

  1. O eyes of rain, be generous to Yathrib's soil,

    with streaming tears whose raindrops pour down.

  2. And return with fragrance from my greeting, whose perfume is

    the Najdi east breeze, O best of the good!

  3. A land where revelation has a nurturing ground and an abode,

    and a haven of forgiveness for every sinner;

  4. and where unfettered perfection dwells, and the center to which

    the revolution of the star-studded sphere reaches its end.

  5. The lights of the unseen poured him forth upon creation,

    in an outpouring of bounty beyond all earning.

  6. So he told of what was hidden through the manifest evidence that

    proves through miraculous inimitability in every inquiry.

  7. When the two eyes of his insight look toward

    his ideal reality—how beautiful and how good!

  8. He sees the barrier between the two seas as a created being,

    and its rising-place within its ordered boundary.

  9. So he takes from this for that, according to its due,

    in a relationship whose mother and father are preserved.

  10. By the hand of its meaning, its necessity passes

    to its contingency, like the passage of rain-shedding clouds.

  11. So a recipient receives from it an agent's ruling,

    through the substance of the inheritance of refined perfection.

  12. And in this mediation he asserted no

    right over people, nor distinction of rank.

  13. And that is not because there is no might or power

    apart from the Generous One, boundless in bounty—so marvel!

  14. But he sees only that his heart's subtle point

    has dispelled the promptings of passion and scruples about sin.

  15. So, for this one, the meaning of the station is veiled,

    yet its adepts were not absent from it.

  16. When our feet were set in ranks and he led us

    in a prayer of witnessing, not a prayer of veiling,

  17. he went on without turning back, close to his witnessing

    with us; and we went behind him without turning back.

  18. Those are the Prophet's heirs in the seen realm

    and in the unseen; the righteous person is not like the one brought near.

  19. And that is a path to which he indeed called with insight;

    and we called every east and west to it.

  20. So that is the caller to God, by the method whereby

    the form of perfecting is found in every school.

  21. A sacred law of truth, the truth of every sacred law,

    a station of particularity, apart from ordered generality,

  22. pointed to in form from its directions,

    all together, and in meaning from the realities of the unseen.

Sol 6.1