On Knowing the Qualities of the Holy Spirit

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On Knowing the Qualities of the Holy Spirit

In truth, God is the eternal King, the boundless Almighty, ancient and without end. Out of his everlasting grace, he made the human soul unmatched among all created things. He honored it with something of his own attributes, and through it he made himself known. Power, hearing, sight, knowledge and life, and speech and will, these are among his qualities. Eternal endurance too, and the gift of soaring since the beginning, granted by his endless favor. Let your goal be to journey toward the eternal and to find him, and to flee the demands of the selfish, corrupting soul.
Explanation: The poem lists divine attributes (power, hearing, sight, knowledge, life, speech, will) that theology assigns to God and that are reflected, in limited form, in the human soul. The 'commanding soul' (nafs) refers to the lower self that urges wrongdoing.

Original · Persian

بخش ۲۴ - فی معرفت صفات روح قدسی

حق بر تحقیق، سلطان ازل قادر بیچون،قدیم لم یزل
روح انسان را ز لطف لایزال کرد در انواع اشیا بی همال
داد از اوصاف خود تشریف او کرد خود با خویشتن تعریف او
قدرت وسمع وبصر،علم وحیات هم کلام و هم ارادت از صفات
هم بقا،هم وصف طیران ازل داد توفیقش بفضل کم یزل
در ابد سیران و وجدانش دثار وز مراد نفس بدفرما فرار