Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.

Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.