Number 13

Your face shines out in the eyes of everything beautiful; all the grace and beauty of the lovely ones belongs to you. On the face of every fairy-featured beauty, only a line or two from the book of your beauty has been written. There is no beloved anywhere except your face; for true rapture, nothing is worth loving but your face. Zuleikha's eyes were fixed on the reflection of your face, seeing the lovely face of Joseph, son of Jacob, as if in a mirror. In the witness and the witnessed, you are both the seer and the seen; in lover and beloved, you are both the seeker and the sought. In the taverns they worship none but you; even the one who bows to stone and clay and wood. The broom of longing for you swept the house of my heart clean; and now this house is swept just as the heart desires. From those scattered locks and that mischievous glance, the whole world, from end to end, was filled with turmoil and unrest. Maghrebi is not veiled from your face, my friend; if anything, he is veiled from your beauty only by himself.