He appeared to them, among them, as though He were one of them;

Yet that was a concealment (Talbis) and a familiarization (Tanis) combined.

He appeared to them in a visible image—which is

He, and yet it is not He, O young man!

On the day He called them while they were in heedlessness,

They did not comprehend what He said in that Summons.

For He said: "I am the One who raised its heavens,

The Leveler of the earth, and the Originator of mankind.

I am the One who made the rivers flow for you,

Who caused the trees to grow, and moved the winds.

I firmly set the mountains and decreed for you

Your sustenance, and brought forth the morning and the evening.

Nothing that was not yet became—

Except that I brought it into being as I willed."

How strange that He said this, yet they did not understand,

Instead, they howled; but the disease overcame the cure.

How many a power has He made manifest