So, We Made You Drink It

So, We Made You Drink It

Author Mahmoud Shalaby
Year of Publication 1981
Publisher Dar Al-Maarefah

“And We gave it to you to drink”?!!
Its music… has dimensions… without end…
“And We gave it to you to drink”..?!! It is beyond the power of creation… to grasp it… or to understand it… or to encompass it in knowledge…
“And We gave it to you to drink”..?!! He… alone… is able to speak it…
for its seas… stretch from the eternity of the Divine Essence… to the everlastingness of the Attributes!!!
It is a single word… spoken by our Lord… and sent down upon His servant… in His Book…
yet in it are the attributes… of the One Who spoke it…
All the wonders of the Essence are in it… all the marvels of Oneness are in it… all the power of Divinity is in it… all the gifts of Lordship are in it…
All the meanings of all-encompassing are in it… all the miracle of miracles is in it…
The divine self-disclosure… is perfectly clear… in its outward meaning… and in its inward meaning!!!
There is nothing… that is not given drink… and for everything there is a drink… that suits it…
He… is the One Who gives drink… He gives drink to all things…
“And We gave it to you to drink”..?!! That great and wondrous song…