‘Ya Hu’ and ‘Ya man Hu’

What is to be done, oh Moslems? for I do not recognise myself. I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor moslem. I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea; I am not of Nature’s mint, nor of the circling heavens, I am not of earth, nor of water, nor of air, nor of fire, I am not of the empyrean, nor of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity. I am not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of Saqsin. I am not of the Kingdom of Iraqain, nor of the country of Khorasan. I am not of this world, nor of the next, nor of paradise, nor of hell. I am not of Adam, nor of Eve, nor of Eden and Riswan. My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless; its neither body nor soul, for I belong to the Soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are One. One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call, I know none except ‘Ya Hu’ and ‘Ya man Hu.’

Maulana Rumi