The Finest 'PAINTER'

Allah is liken a painter

Spreading the various colors:

Delusion of grasps different forms

But the elements have no distinctions.

In the elements there’s no form,

And no form in the elements;

Yet apart from the elements

No form can be found.

In the mind is no painting,

In painting there is no mind;

Yet not apart from mind

Is any painting to be found.

That mind never stops,

Manifesting all forms,

Countless, inconceivably many,

Unknown to one another.

Just as a painter

does show his own mind

Yet paints due to the mind,

So is the nature of all things.

Mind is liken a God’ finest art,

The paint of worldly jokes:

The characters are born thence;

There is nothing it does not make.

As in the mind, so is the God;

As the God, so living beings:

Know that God and mind

Are in essence inexhaustible.

If ‘HE’ know the actions of mind

create all the worlds,

’HE’ will see ‘HIM’

and understand God’s true nature.

Mind does not stay in the body,

Nor body stay in mind:

Yet it is able to perform God-work

Freely, without precedent.

If ‘HE’ love to really know

The GOD of all times,

if ‘HE’ should contemplate the nature of the cosmos:

All is but mental construction