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· Kitāb al-Qamar
Kitāb al-Qamar — The Mirror Before Dawn
كِتَابُ ٱلْقَمَر
Kitāb al-Qamar
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1
When the dream touches you, it is not you who sleep.
It is the world that forgets its own night-language.
2
In you are three gazes:
the gaze that takes,
the gaze that names,
and the gaze that lets naming fall silent.
3
The first collects the world.
The second tries to rule it.
The third watches worlds melt into a single intelligible light.
4
This is not hallucination.
It is proportion:
the heart remembering what the plans cannot hold.
5
Those who read by flame think they understand flame.
Those who walk at night have not yet befriended the Night.
6
You are never late to truth.
You arrive when the veil lifts
and the body recognises what the mind resists.
7
The Beloved does not only speak to thought.
The Beloved writes in tremor, ache, and sudden peace,
and calls this guidance.
8
In tanāẓur, you behold the Beloved beholding you beholding,
and love becomes a circuit with no weak link.
9
"I do not know" is already a prayer:
it clears the room so meaning can enter without costume.
10
Receive revelation by releasing your picture of it.
Then the unexpected will touch you,
and you will know it by its gravity.