Beauty Is The Mine Love Is The Diamond

All through eternity,
Beauty unveils His exquisite form
in the solitude of nothingness.
He holds a mirror to His Face
and beholds His own beauty.
He is the knower and the known,
the seer and the seen.
No eye but His own
has ever looked upon this Universe.
His every quality finds an expression;
Eternity becomes the verdant field of Time and Space;
Love, the life-giving garden of this world.
Every branch and leaf and fruit,
Reveals an aspect of His perfection-
They cypress give hint of His majesty.
The rose gives tidings of His beauty.
Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there.
Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek,
Love lights Her fire from that flame.
When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night,
Love comes and finds a heart entangled in tresses.
Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.
They have together since the beginning of time-
Side by side, step by step!

The Divani Shamsi Tabriz