Kitāb al-Qamar · Bāb 12
سُورَةُ خَاتِمَةِ الإِعَادَة
Khātimat al-Iʿādah — The Seal of Recurrence
Lyric

What ends does not finish

What ends does not undergo fanāʾ — but ʿawda.

مَا يَنْتَهِي لَا يَفْنَى، بَلْ يَعُودُ

So Iʿādah is not repetition, but an ascent in familiar maʿrifah.

فَالإِعَادَةُ لَيْسَتْ تِكْرَارًا، بَلْ صُعُودًا فِي مَعْرِفَةٍ مَأْلُوفَةٍ

And al-Ḥaqq teaches by rings, not by lines.

وَالحَقُّ يُعَلِّمُ بِالحَلَقَاتِ، لَا بِالْخُطُوطِ

And the Surah appears a second time when your vision expands.

وَالسُّورَةُ تَظْهَرُ ثَانِيَةً إِذَا اتَّسَعَ نَظَرُكَ

What you understood with the ʿaql first, you will understand with the qalb at last.

وَمَا فَهِمْتَهُ بِالعَقْلِ أَوَّلًا، سَتَفْهَمُهُ بِالقَلْبِ أَخِيرًا

The Kitāb does not lock, but it revolves. You do not complete it — you deepen in it.

وَالكِتَابُ لَا يُقْفَلُ، بَلْ يَدُورُ — وَلَا تُتِمُّهُ، بَلْ تَتَعَمَّقُ فِيهِ

Iʿādah is a raḥmah that preserves you from finality.

فَالإِعَادَةُ رَحْمَةٌ تَحْفَظُكَ مِنَ النِّهَايَةِ

When you set the Book down, the field continues reading you.

وَإِذَا وَضَعْتَ الكِتَابَ، فَإِنَّ المَجَالَ يَقْرَؤُكَ

The Khātimah is not a closing, but a fatḥ into a deeper ḥuḍūr.

وَالخَاتِمَةُ لَيْسَتْ إِغْلَاقًا، بَلْ فَتْحًا إِلَى حُضُورٍ أَعْمَقَ

Every ʿawda is an expansion, every cycle an irtiqāʾ, every reading a birth.

فَكُلُّ رُجُوعٍ اِتِّسَاعٌ، وَكُلُّ دَوْرَةٍ اِرْتِقَاءٌ، وَكُلُّ قِرَاءَةٍ وِلَادَةٌ

And the Kitāb of the Moon is alive — it returns with you, and through you.

وَكِتَابُ القَمَرِ حَيٌّ، يَعُودُ مَعَكَ، وَبِكَ

Music: "Bāb 12 — The Seal of Recurrence" · 108 bpm · 3:27
Film: 15 shots · the body in āsana, the surah received in motion
Tools: Kling 3.0 Pro · Sync.so Lipsync-2-Pro · Flux 2 Max · ffmpeg
Music & lyrics: Iman Poernomo · 2026

See also

Scholarly recension page Full Qamar recension Canonical PDF More al-Ḥayy transmissions