The Eye-Witness by The Habibiyya

translation:

The Eye-witness

Oh you who desire the presence of clear witnessing, rise above the spirit and the forms.

Cling to the original void - and be as if you were not, oh annihilated one!

You will see true existence by a secret whose meanings have spread in every age.

Forms of action and being do not multiply the actor in any way.

So whoever rises above every vanishing thing sees existence with­out, duality.

Oh the victory of one who has come to witness a Lord who is compassionate, persevering and near.

He accepts whoever comes as a poor one who has turned in recourse from his state of darkness.

So the turning away (from wrong action) of the slave designates him for the presence of love and drawing-near.

Remembrance of Allah while witnessing His bounty brings about luminous inspiration.

Whoever is safe from his own self is safe from creation.

So oppose the self in its desires and seek the company of a gnostic of Allah.

He will show you the hidden faults of the self, he will heal you with a spiritual remedy.

He acts gently towards you on the journey and has compassion for the people of trial and those who lose direction.

He will annihilate you through dhikr in the reality: and he reminds the heart with the Quran

He will refresh the spirit with instruction so that meanings are manifested in it. .

Oh Lord, bless the Prophet as long as the Suratul Mathani is recited.

And his Family and Companions as long as people profit by Iman.

I ask of the Real - bliss and contentment - for all whom my era encompasses.

--