| 1 | O you who believe! Let it be said: Az-Zahir; |
| 2 | The Manifest, the Evident, the Outer; |
| 3 | And the fifth name of Allah, the Infinite, the Unique, the All Knowing. |
| 4 | All that which may be seen is the manifestation of the mind of Allah; |
| 5 | That which may be described is through the manifested gift of language from Allah. |
| 6 | An ignorant man does not witness his thought. |
| 7 | To him, such an idea in itself seems as foreign as a life of a king. |
| 8 | An ignorant man places no real value upon the ability to think and to reason; |
| 9 | As if such gifts of Allah are worthless to him, like the gold of a merchant lost in the desert and dying of thirst. |
| 10 | To him, it is as if our abilities to speak, to think, to reason, to learn and to manifest are no different to breathing, to eating and to relieving of bowels. |
| 11 | Such is the crudeness of the ignorant. |
| 12 | Yet it is by thinking and by the sacred act of manifesting that Allah brought into being, all we see and hear. |
| 13 | The power of thought is strong enough to build empires; |
| 14 | Yet dangerous enough to cause men to die of the very things they feared the most. |
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Sufa 5 - The Manifest (Az-Zahir)