When you see the created, you see the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden.
فإذا رأيت الخلق رأيت الأول والآخر والظاهر والباطن
Fe-izâ raeyte'l-halka raeyte'l-evvele ve'l-âhira ve'z-zâhira ve'l-bâtın.
Ibn Arabi, Fusus al-Hikam, chapter on Solomon (Afifi edition).
You look at a leaf.
At a face.
At a doorstep.
Ibn Arabi says
when you see the created
you see the First, the Last, the Manifest, the Hidden.
These four names stand side by side in the Quran.
There is no need to go far to search.
It stands right in front of your gaze.
Finding the unseen is thought to be hard.
Harder still
is truly seeing what is seen.