Muntakhab al-tawarikh 1.2

1.2

Thou knowest that I may turn from travelling in this valley, and having hidden the head of bewilderment in the cloak of meditation on men and regions should open the eye of my understanding to the knowledge of Thy all-perfect works and unfading kingdom and proceeding, through the vicissitudes of affairs of created beings, to the Unity of thy exalted personality, should end with the words of proclaiming and confessing the Unity of God, so that I may see with the eye of certainty — nay more that I may recognise that In thy excellence there is no room for duality, Thou and thy majesty make up the universe. and I have moistened my lips with the pure water of the praise of that chieftain whose name is "praised," whose end is lauded; lord of the promised fountain, and of the praise which is on every tongue (may the blessing and peace of God be upon him and his family) because the mantle of the honour of eternal and everlasting empire lies gracefully upon his noble figure, and the proclamation and stamp of undiminishing power and glorious sovereignty of right belongs to his exalted name. The monarch of Arabia of whom the world is a manifestation, The Lord of the earth, whose servant he is, swears by his name. He was the near neighbour of the Truth, for this reason had no shadow To the end that no one should place a foot on (the shadow of) his head—