Comments on the chapter Opening Poem

“This whole existence, knowing it is my priority.

Because it is a present, from the presence of my Lord.

His day is like a year (of what we count), when the Sun is manifest.

You see the insightful, without backing, giving the messenger.

A gift of essence, not only the attributes, but only the forms.

Get up, then, to the pot of abstracts, from the undefined state,

to see how the existence of the highest one,

revealing knowledge, from an optimal presence.”

Ibn al-Arabi (Diwan, p. 110).