Al Sufian


iconSufa 38 - The Perfection (Al-Quddus)

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