Frithjof Schuon Archive

Outside by the forestA waterfall rushes;The birds in the sky are singing,Lark and nightingale.The cascading water tells us:Thus it is with God’s power;The Lord always remains the same,Yet He ever creates anew.The birds in the sky sing —For where the circleOf God’s...

When the Lord God shines into the naught,Then there must also be broken things;God gives the naught an existence, and this means:Existing things must live deep in darknessFor a brief moment of time — like empty foamIn the limitless space of blissful Light.

“Verily, My mercy precedethMy wrath.” It cannot be otherwise:Without the world, Allah’s wrath would not be;Without the wrath, what would there be to pardon?

What is the naught? It has reality onlyAs a tendency to corrupt the Good;There is no naught in itself; what does not existCannot have a consequence, and cannot inherit anything.The tendency to corrupt can be defined:You can see inward nothingness in the form of...