Number 17

RubāʿīIraqi style
English

Number 17

We are the treasure whose seal is the whole world; we are the essence, and Adam is our attribute made visible. You who are searching for the Greatest Name of God: do not pass us by, for that Greatest Name is us.
Explanation: The 'Greatest Name' (ism-e a'zam) is the hidden, all powerful name of God in Islamic tradition. The couplets voice a Sufi claim that the human being is itself the manifestation of divine truth.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۱۷

گنجی که طلسم اوست عالم ماییم ذاتی که صفات اوست آدم ماییم
ای آنکه تویی طالب اسم اعظم از ما مگذر که اسم اعظم ماییم