1 | O you who believe! Let it be said: Al-Quddus; |
2 | The Sacred, the Pure, the Perfect; |
3 | And the thirty-fourth name of Allah, the One, the Absolute, the Almighty. |
4 | The perfect uniqueness of the Great Circular Constant, |
5 | That the Christians still choose to name after the Greek; |
6 | The perfection and detail of the smallest living form to the largest; |
7 | The perfection of the heavens; |
8 | The perfection of a new born child; |
9 | Behold! All are but shades of the perfect greatness of Allah. |
10 | Let it be said, the perfection is to be found not in the extreme, |
11 | But in the balance of imperfection; |
12 | Not in a face of perfect symmetry, |
13 | But perfect asymmetry; |
14 | Not in a building of simplistic shape, |
15 | But imperfect wholeness; |
16 | Not in the stark array of trees and gardens, |
17 | But in the journey and celebration of the hand of the Divine. |
18 | Thus, a student of the Way of Islam knows the key to perfection is found through imperfection. |
19 | Verily, we are the living expression of such imperfect perfection. |
20 | That our flesh shall corrupt and decay, yet our spirits are immortal. |
21 | A true Muslim never forgets the balance. |