Chapter Two Hundred and Fifty-Five: On Gnosis of Obliteration, Which Is Your Annihilation within His Entity, and Gnosis of Obliteration of Obliteration, Which Is Your Fixity within His Entity
Engendered existence’s annihilation within entities is obliteration;
engendered existence’s entity is Real, then creation.
If proof establishes my existence,
obliteration subsists within the essence of whoever denies it.
Through what my engendered being contains
of Reality’s names, I am a share within it.
This is obliteration. Obliteration of obliteration is:
Obliteration of obliteration is becoming full,
and in realization it is a warning.
When you perceive His rising
within me, eyes have not perceived Him.
He said to al-Haddad when he came,
with veils and curtains before Him,
“Who am I?” He said, “Our Creator,
and my proof concerning You is effects.”
(Obliteration and Obliteration of Obliteration)
Know that obliteration is your appearing within engendered existence through Him by vicegerency and deputizing
Notes
Translator’s note TN5560-1: The poem’s shiq/shaq wording is compressed; “a share within it” is provisional, with “split” or “rent” also possible. Al-Haddad may be a name or the epithet “the blacksmith”; no historical identification is supplied. The brief fī phrase is read “within me” (fiyya), continuing the preceding line.
