Number 6

RubāʿīIraqi style
English

Number 6

Before there was any before or after, when this before and after did not yet exist, when there was no nation, no religion, no creed, no faith. All this talk of me and you, of us and them, in His presence was never more than a single One.
Explanation: The poem expresses the mystical idea of the unity of being: all apparent divisions dissolve into a single divine reality.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۶

پیش از پس و پیش کاین پس و پیش نبود وین ملت و دین و مذهب و کیش نبود
این ما و منی و این شمائی و توئی در حضرت او بجز یکی بیش نبود