' Annihilation in the Beloved '...

"Those who seek annihilation in the Beloved and poverty in life
have no need of religion, knowledge or intellect.

They do not even exist,

only the Beloved remains.

This is what the verse,

“The poor have Him only,” means."



-Abu-Said Abil-Kheir (967 - 1049)
from Nobody, Son of Nobody: Poems of Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
Translated by Vraje Abramian