Divine Omnipresence and the Blindness of the Beholder in Jami's Section 21 Supplication
In Section 21 of the Haft Awrang, Jami frames the created world as saturated with evidence of its Creator: the cosmos is full of the attributes of the divine essence and of the proofs that establish God's existence, and there is no place empty of the light of the divine face (هیچ جا نیست که غوغای تو نیست). This radical divine self-manifestation is set against a paradox of human perception — God is utterly manifest and present, yet the human beholder is blind of sight and far-gazing (تو چنین ظاهر و ما کور بصر), unable to perceive what is nearest. Without the divine light, the seeker's seeing eye and knowing heart are useless. The supplication therefore turns to a plea for grace: that God plant the seed of guidance in the heart and rain the cloud of favor upon it, so the seeker may receive the light needed to string the pearl of tawhid, moving from heedless blindness to the realized affirmation of divine unity.
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