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| My heart telling me, I am angry with Him
Laughs at lame excuse, no infirmity within O leader of the righteous, Be fair! I implore Thou the Chairperson, I pleading at thy door There is not any chair, nor door in consciousness In LOVE �you� and �me� are of no significance. O Supreme One! Thou art not twain Oh the Spirit beholding man and woman Male and female when united are one All annihilate in but in thee and none Thou in purpose have split them in twain Playing with their servitude Thou entertain |
| �You� and �Me� when unite in One
Become �The Beloved� other than none When you will relieve thyself of duality Annihilation is final course of morality (8) This is �To Be� Thy final decree, I behold O Ruler, above the faculty of speech or word This �eye� can envision you never My sorrow, my grief, are but clever (9) The heart bound to laugh or sorrow I question: may ever behold thy morrow? Caught in happiness or grief one may be Living the passing moments, not life may he? (10) The green garden of eternal LOVE for sure Hath fruits more than pain and pleasure Divine Love is above both these states Both spring and autumn it ever enjoys (11) Oh Beloved! Pay alms for thy beautiful face My shattered soul thus explained by Thy Grace. Thy coquettish bashful slandering art Hath inflicted fresh wound on my heart My murder, I�ve but granted Thee I provoked; He denied persistently |
| (7) According to tradition it is said that Allah appreciates two drops very much, one is the tear shed in steadfastness to truth (taqwa), and the other is blood spent in Allah�s Cause, fighting for Truth (Jihad)
(8) There are no male and female attributes. All attributes are from Allah. Duality means seeking of attributes in oneself other than approved by Allah. Freeing oneself from these earthly attributes and adorning oneself with Divine virtues is the final demand of purity and Divinity. (9) �Eye� means physical eye. One cannot see God, but feels His presence in joy and grief inflicted on oneself. Rumi further clarifies that worldly pleasure or sorrow does not matter, but it�s the �wajd� spiritual ecstasy that brings one close to Him. (10) Life is just not fleeting moments of happiness and grief. Restricting oneself to worldly passing emotions is fixing oneself to it, and one is never able to realize the truth of life, which is not in duality, but in Oneness of life that is perpetual, that of eternity. (11) �Ishq� the Divine Love is the spiritual energy, which facilitates one on the path and helps one to conquer worldly emotions that relate to individual sustenance rather than mutual survival, thus is opposed to selfishness. |
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