Chapter Three Hundred and Ninety-Four: On Knowing the Mutual Encounter ‘Whoever Observes Proper Decorum Arrives, and Whoever Arrives Does Not Return, Even If He Lacks Proper Decorum’
Were it not for witnessing and the blessings it holds,
I would have no hope of being within nonexistence.
We were through Him, within Him, until He said ‘Be!’; then appeared
Our entities, through hearing being within the words.
Had we opened eyes free of inflammation,
We would have been bewildered, like the blind in darkness.
We were not; then the existence of Light made us appear
As light, and thus we are in an undivided being.
Light is our entities, and Light is our Creator;
Within it we strive, with a leg or without a foot.
(Goodness, Decorum, and Gathering)
Know—may God support us and you—that absolute existence is pure goodness, just as absolute nonexistence is pure evil. Possible things lie between them: insofar as they receive existence, they have a share
