How Shall I Define What Thing I Am ? ~ Mirza Khan Ansari

How Shall I Define What Thing I Am?

By  Mirza Khan Ansari

How shall I define what thing I am

Wholly existent, and non-existent, I am.

Whatever becomes naught out of entity,

The signification of that nothingness am I.

Sometimes a mote in the disc of the sun;

At others, a ripple on the water‘s surface.

Now I fly about on the wind of association:

Now I am a bird of the incorporeal world.

I have enveloped myself in the four elements:

I am the clouds on the face of the sky.

From unity I have come into infinity:

Indeed, nothing exists, that I am not.

My vitality is, from life‘s source itself;

And I am the speech, every mouth within.

I am the hearing-sense within every ear;

And also the sight of every eye am I.

I am the potentiality in every thing:

I am the perception every one within.

My will and inclination are with all;

With mine own acts, also, satisfied am I.

Unto the sinful and vicious, I am evil;

But unto the good beneficent am I.

In the lot of the devoted, I am the honey:

In the soul of the impious, the sting.

I am with every one, and in all things.

Without imperfection—immaculate I am.

(Mirza Khan Ansari ~ 17th Century mystical Sufi poet from Afghanistan.)

About A.D.

Generally just Being. Nothing in particular, no claims to fame. I like gardening and the sea, nature, art in all forms from poetry to films and everything in between, and being in the company of my family.