Abu Madyan Al-Ghawth: Say Allāh

Say Allāh! and leave existence and all it contains
if your aspiration is to reach completeness

For everything other than Allāh, if you verify its truth

is nothingness, in its detail and in its totality and summation

And know that you, and all the worlds

if it were not for Him, would have been eliminated, fading and disappearing

He who does not exist because of himself by cause of himself

then his existence without Him is utter impossibility

The gnostics [aarifeen] faded and did not witness

anything except The Supreme in Greatness, The Majestic, The Most Exalted

and they saw everything else other than Him in its truth as perishing

either immediately, in the past, and in the future to come

So glimpse with your mind or with your sight: do you see

anything other than an act from among the acts?

And look at the height of existence and at its base

with a sight that you support by reasoning and interpretation,

you find everything pointing towards His Majesty

with what it displays by its status or by its words

while He is holding everything from its top to

its bottom, and creating them, without a similar or an equal.

بارك الله فيك

Shāykh Abū al-Hassan al-Shādhilī

لسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته،

الحمدلله رب العالمين

اللهم صل على سيدنا ونبينا وحبيبنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

:Sidi Ahmad az-Zaruq relates that Shaykh Abu al-Hassan al-Shādhilī {May Allāh have mercy upon them} said

“My beloved gave me counsel once and he said:

‘Do not move your feet except where you hope to attain the reward of Allāh.
Do not sit in any place unless you are completely secure from the disobedience of Allāh.
Do not keep company except with someone who will assist you in the obedience of Allāh.
And realize that they are few.”

{Usul at-Tariqah}

بارك الله فيكم