Moses asked God a question.
'O God, would you please tell me where you live?'
And God replied...
When Moses Asked, 'O God, Where Do You Live?'
A tradition of the prophet states that one day...
Moses asked God a question.
He said, 'O God, if you are near me, I shall whisper my desires to you...
and if you are far, then I shall call out your name aloud
because, my Lord, though I am able to hear your beautiful voice...
alas, I cannot see you.
'Would you please tell me where you live?'
God replied, 'Ana amamak'.
'Ana amamak'.
'I am ahead of you'.
'Wa ana khalfuq'
'I am behind you'.
'Wa an yamenik'.
'I am to your left'.
'Wa an shima lika'
'And I am on your right'.
'Ya Musa, ana jaleesu...'
'Ana jaleesu abdi haina yazkarni
wa inna maa'ahu iza da'ani'.
'O Moses,'
Ana jalees...
'I take a seat...'
abdi...
wherever my servant sits.
'Ana jaleesu abadi (I sit with my servant)'.
'Haina yazkurni (whenever he commemorates my name)'.
'Wa ana maa'ahu (and I am with him)...'
'iza da'ani...'
'whensoever he calls upon me'.
The following statement...
is that God descended a divine revelation upon Moses.
[God said] 'O Moses, do you wish for me to live with you in your house?'
[Arabic] 'God asked Moses, ''Do you wish for me to live with you in your house, O Moses?'''
'Do you wish....'
'as kun ma'ak'
'that I live with you?"
'fee baitak (in your house) O Moses?"
'Do you wish for me to live with you in your house?'
Upon hearing this, an elated Moses fell to prostration
and he said, 'O God, why would you live with me in my house?'
God replied, 'O Moses...
do you not know that I am always sitting with the one who commemorates my name?'
'I am always with the one who is engaged in the Zikr of my name'.
'And when my servant is searching for me...'
'Whenever he searches for me, he shall find me'.