God, Shadows and the Cosmos

 



 

His rules are manifest in all creation, because all things are the 
shadow of God, and the shadow is like the person. If the five fingers 
are spread out, the shadow too is spread out; if the body bows, the 
shadow also bows; if it stretches out, the shadow also stretches out. . 
. . But this awareness of ours in relation to God’s knowledge is in the 
predicament of unawareness. Not everything that is in the person shows 
in the shadow, only certain things. So not all the attributes of God 
show in this shadow, only some of them show, for “You have been given of 
knowledge nothing except a little.”

-- Rumi