You Seek Me Outside Poem by Mohammad Younus

You seek me outside,
but I dwell within you;
You think I am your other,
but I am not other than you.
A believer in otherness is truly
an alien to the cult of lovers;
Be careful, otherness is certainly
the sign of being cut off.

See, how my pure light envelops you;
It goes off only when you shut your eyes.
'Come close to me, I am your true lord.'
When I love you, I lead you to myself;
In yourself I meet you,
a mystery beyond reason.
No one can know me, save those
who see meaning beyond forms.

I am in love with you ever since
I created you and made you
My caliph upon the earth.
Swear to Me, 'I only obey you, '
I shall cloak you in my light,
and shroud off your cloak of dust.
With my light you shall see
every atom is graced by me;
I appear everywhere and in everything.

I am beautiful and love my beauty
through the eyes of my lovers,
whom the dust of the world blinds not.

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