Number 17

Your attributes are the veil over the face of your essence; your pure essence is what makes those attributes appear. When the sun of your face began to shine, all darkness was destroyed by its light. Your lips breathed upon a dead world, and from that breath it found new life. That world burst into clamor and motion, like dust particles dancing before the sun of your face. A whole world was nothing, mere non-existence; your life-giving lips brought it into being. Every motion in the world comes from you; otherwise non-existence stays still and fixed. How would the poor world have grown rich, if you had not drawn out the alms from your treasure? And what they call Adam is a copy of the world and the manifestation of the essence. Maghrebi, what they call the world is only the reflection of your face in a mirror.