Beauteous are all his qualities, Benediction be on him and on his family.

Beauteous are all his qualities, Benediction be on him and on his family. The tradition is that whenever a sinful and distressed worshipper stretches forth the hand of repentance with hopes of acceptance to the court of heaven, God the most high does not notice him, whereon he continues to implore mercy with supplications and tears and God the most holy says: O my angels, verily I am ashamed of my servant and he has no other lord besides myself. Accordingly I have fully pardoned him.

See the generosity and kindness of God. The servant has committed sin and he is ashamed. Those who attend permanently at the temple of his glory confess the imperfection of their worship and say: We have not worshipped thee according to the requirements of thy worship; and those who describe the splendour of his beauty are rapt in amazement saying: We have not known thee as thou oughtest to be known. If someone asks me for his description, What shall I despairing say of One who has no form?

The lovers have been slain by the beloved. No voice can come from the slain. One of the devout who had deeply plunged his head into the cowl of meditation and had been immersed in the ocean of visions, was asked, when he had come out of that state, by one of his companions who had desired to cheer him up: 'What beautiful gift hast thou brought us from the garden in which thou hast been?' He replied: 'I intended to fill the skirts of my robe with roses, when I reached the rose-tree, as presents for my friends but the perfume of the flowers intoxicated me so much that I let, go the hold of my skirts.' O bird of the morning, learn love from the moth Because it burnt, lost its life, and found no voice.

These pretenders are ignorantly in search of Him, Because he who obtained knowledge has not returned. O thou who art above all imaginations, conjectures, opinions and ideas, Above anything people have said or we have heard or read, The assembly is finished and life has reached its term And we have, as at first, remained powerless in describing thee.