I am lost in God, and God is found in me - Rumi
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi or simply known as Rumi was a 13th -century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
"I am lost in God, and God is found in me. Why look in all directions? Look inside. I am the Lord, and I do you wrong to say that anyone is Lord or God to me" - Rumi.
One of the Sufi's Primary rituals is dhikr - A remembering of God (Allah). This dhikr is coupled with physical exertions of movement, specifically dancing and whirling (Sema) in order to reach a state assumed as "ecstatic trances" during which they get lost in love of God and become one with the source where one looses his identity to the source - GOD!
The Art shows a Sufi Darvish (Assumed as a water drop) dancing in an Ocean (The eternal source - God), where his trance slowly melts him away and finally becomes one with the Ocean (the eternal source - God). Like a drop of water looses it's identity as it becomes one with the Ocean, it's eternal source. Hence, when you do not exist, He (God) does!
A Shia Islam Reference beautifully explains this in "Kalam-E-Moula" (The sayings of Haz. Ali Bin Abu Talib)
Verse 327 - Aval Aakhar, Jaaher.....
The first, the last, the manifest and the hidden, that which is visible and heard is all He. He is in everything, yet He is beyond everything, there is nothing apart from Him. By abandoning the separation between I and you, behold this oneness there is no duality at all. If you loose yourself in this understanding, you will not exist; it will be He in truth.
Medium: Acrylic-Based on Canvas (8" x 10")
Intricately set in a beautiful quality matching frame ( 14 3/4" x 17 3/4" ) with black border with beveled gold edges.