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If I adore You out of fear of Hell,
Burn me in Hell!
If I adore you out of desire for Paradise,
Lock me out of Paradise.
But if I adore you for Yourself alone,
Do not deny to me Your eternal beauty.
The only sufi poet of whom I'm aware is Omar Kayam.
MY favourite quote is "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou."
In context:
"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness-
O, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness-
O, Wilderness were Paradise enow!"
Hi c charlie, thank you.
Many of these poems will not be understood by those that haven't meditated;
for example to know what the 'unstruck sound', Shabd or Shabad or Naam or Soham means...or
the fragrance that is breathed out means, from a poem above...ha, most Muslims do not...
but still, so what, people can
understand more about the devotion and connection Sufis, esp the Mystics, can have to the Non-physical realm of love and devotion with the Unseen One, the Friend, the Beloved. Also, the similarities of Christian or Hindu Mystics...Psalm 91, 139---verses from the Bhagavad Gita...
all ring of the love for the One.
My take, anyway.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oh Companion That Abode Is Unmatched,
Where My Complete Beloved Is.
In that Place There Is No Happiness or Unhappiness,
No Truth or Untruth
Neither Sin Nor Virtue.
There Is No Day or Night, No Moon or Sun,
There Is Radiance Without Light.
There Is No Knowledge or Meditation
No Repetition of Mantra or Austerities,
Neither Speech Coming From Vedas or Books.
Doing, Not-Doing, Holding, Leaving
All These Are All Lost Too In This Place.
No Home, No Homeless, Neither Outside or Inside,
Micro and Macrocosm Are Non-Existent.
Five Elemental Constituents and the Trinity Are Both Not There
Witnessing Un-struck Shabad Sound is Also Not There.
No Root or Flower, Neither Branch or Seed,
Without a Tree Fruits are Adorning,
Primordial Om Sound, Breath-Synchronized Soham,
This and That - All Are Absent, The Breath Too Unknown
Where the Beloved Is There is Utterly Nothing
Says Kabir I Have Come To Realize.
Whoever Sees My Indicative Sign
Will Accomplish the Goal of Liberation.
~Kabir
There will be poems later...and this might help understand them better ...from a website..
"Because the erotic longing for the beloved is used in Sufi verse as a vehicle for expressing
the devotee's longing for union with God, and because wine in Sufi symbology
implies not drunkenness, but God-intoxication..."
I Have Learned so Much - Hafiz I
Have
Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call
Myself
A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,
a Buddhist, a Jew.
The Truth has shared so much of Itself
With me
That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, an angel,
Or even a pure
Soul.
Love has
Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash
And freed
Me
Of every concept and image
my mind has ever known
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