A Just-Finishing Candle

In describing those who have become free from their own evil and talents, who are annihilated in the permanence of truth like stars that vanish in the sun and have no fear of harm or danger:  
When their annihilation is adorned with poverty, they become shadowless like Muhammad.  
The annihilation of "poverty is my pride" became an adornment, like the flame of a candle that became shadowless.  
The candle became entirely flame, head and foot, and the shadow could not pass around it.  
The wax fled from itself and its shadow, into the radiance for which the candle poured itself.  
He said, "I poured myself for your annihilation," and he replied, "I too fled into annihilation."  
This radiance remained obligatory, not the transient radiance of the candle.  
When the candle became entirely annihilated in the fire, you see neither the candle nor its light.  
It is evident in dispelling darkness, the form of fire remains stable in the wax.  
Unlike the wax of the candle's body, which diminishes as the light of the soul increases.  
This radiance remains, and that is transient; the flame of the soul is divine.