1 | O you who believe! Let it be said: Al-Zakar; |
2 | The Male, the Masculine; |
3 | And the sixteenth name of Allah, the One, the Absolute, the Almighty. |
4 | The companion, gatherer and protector; |
5 | The half by which life is conceived; |
6 | The strength, the warrior, the brave; |
7 | Allah is indeed masculine. Yet Allah is also feminine. |
8 | To deny the feminine in favor of the masculine, |
9 | Is to deny the existence of the night in favor of the day; |
10 | Or to deny the existence of the sun in favor of the rain. |
11 | Such thinking is without sensibility, and foolish. |
12 | To deny the night in favor of the day; |
13 | Or to deny the rain in favor of the sun. |
14 | The Male is but one half and can never be properly whole unless with a woman. |