You Are The First And The Last
Thou at first givest the desire for prayer, and Thou at last givest likewise the recompense for prayers.
For it may be that the lock of this heart will be opened and that a place will be (granted) to this ugly one at the banquet of the beauteous.
Through thee the deformed may become endowed with beauty, or an Iblís may again become one of the Cherubim; Or, by the august influence of Mary's hand, the withered bough may acquire the fragrance of musk and freshness and fruit.” Thereupon the Israelite fell to worship and said, “O God who knowest the manifest and the hidden, To whom but Thee should Thy servant lift his hand? Both the prayer and the answer (to prayer) are from Thee. Thou at first givest the desire for prayer, and Thou at last givest likewise the recompense for prayers. Thou art the First and the Last: we between are nothing, a nothing that does not come into (admit of) expression.
The Masnawi, Volume 4: 3500
For it may be that the lock of this heart will be opened and that a place will be (granted) to this ugly one at the banquet of the beauteous.
Through thee the deformed may become endowed with beauty, or an Iblís may again become one of the Cherubim; Or, by the august influence of Mary's hand, the withered bough may acquire the fragrance of musk and freshness and fruit.” Thereupon the Israelite fell to worship and said, “O God who knowest the manifest and the hidden, To whom but Thee should Thy servant lift his hand? Both the prayer and the answer (to prayer) are from Thee. Thou at first givest the desire for prayer, and Thou at last givest likewise the recompense for prayers. Thou art the First and the Last: we between are nothing, a nothing that does not come into (admit of) expression.
The Masnawi, Volume 4: 3500
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