“Now a word came stealing to me; my ear received the whisper of it.
“Look, my eye has seen all this; my ear has heard and understood it.
These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals, while they slumber on their beds,
Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God,
For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.