Chapter Three Hundred and Forty-Nine: On Knowing the Abode of Opening and Closing the Gates and the Creation of Every Community, from the Muhammadan Presence
Cast aside nothing among engendered things, for they have
An attribute from the Real, and engendered things are signs.
From the Real’s jealousy, the Real was their very entities;
The Qurʾan and inspiration brought this.
Without my need and abasement I would not have met Him,
Nor would nearness and encounter have been realized for me.
For His due every existent strove and walked,
As a communication in God’s Book decreed.
Every entity among things glorified Him;
For that He brought it into being, and God is All-Knowing.
Every engendered being is needy
In every state, pleasures and pains.
Where is independence, when God’s speech has annulled it?
You see only poverty containing deprivation.
(Poverty toward God and the Gates of Good)
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Translator’s note: The title’s unvocalized خلق can be read khalq, ‘creation,’ or khuluq, ‘character’ or ‘disposition.’ The translation retains ‘creation’ while leaving this vocalization uncertain.