(Note: Once at night in a high spot on Çamdağı near Barla, I was looking at the heavens when the following lines suddenly occurred to me. I imagined I heard the stars' speaking in the tongue of their disposition. Since I do not know the rules of versification, I wrote them as they occurred to me.)

Listen to the stars and heed their beautiful sermons.
See what is written in these luminous missives of Wisdom.
They are all delivering this fruitful discourse:
“Each of us is a radiant proof for the majestic sovereignty
of an All-Powerful One of glory.
We bear witness to the existence of the Maker,
and also to His Unity and Power.
We are His subtle miracles gilding the face of the skies,
for the angels to make excursions on.
We are the innumerable discerning eyes of the heavens
directed to Paradise, and overseeing Earth.[1]
We are the exquisite fruits attached to the
heavenly branch of the Tree of Creation;
and to the twigs of the Milky Way,
attached by the hand of wisdom of the Majestic,
All-Gracious Being. For the inhabitants of the heavens,
we are travelling mosques,
revolving houses and exalted homes,
light-diffusing lamps, mighty ships, planes.
We are miracles of the Power of the All-Powerful One of
Perfection, the All-Wise One of Majesty.
Each of us is a wonder of His creative art, a rarity of His Wisdom,
a marvel of His creation, a world of light.
To the people who are truly human,
we present countless proofs in countless tongues;
The eyes of the atheists, may they be blind,
never see our faces, nor do their ears hear our speech;
we are signs that speak the truth.
On us is the same stamp and seal.
We obey and glorify our Lord,
and mention Him in worship.
We are ecstatic lovers in the
widest circle of the Milky Way,
the circle reciting our Lord's Names.

[1] It is as if the stars, which can be considered as the eyes of heavenly bodies, were watching the intricate works of creation on Earth and then turning toward Paradise to observe the permanent forms of those works, just as the angels observe the miracles of Divine Power exhibited on Earth, the land sown with the seeds of the flowers of Paradise.

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