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| Why from wailing of bitter thou ever retreat?
Why always teasing wounds of the grieved? Oh Beloved! Every morn that rises in the East Beseech You! Fresh and luminous Sun as feast Excuses to thy lovers are but false requisite, O Beloved, sweetness of thy lips is exquisite, The world is rapidly staling, but Thy soul ever new Listen to �bodiless soul�, �soulless body� cry and hew Oh heart! Do not indulge in details of flower Commence with nightingale, suffering of the hour Our passion is not linked with grief or happiness Bound with doubtful reason, is not consciousness This state is different, exquisite in itself, relate, Do not deny, Allah is Supreme, if thou estimate Do not wonder at earthly states in presence Fixing thyself to adversity and benevolence Hardship, Justice, happiness and grief are passing Do annihilate, returning to God all His belonging (12) Oh Lord of morning and dusk, it�s the time. Bear excuse to my friend Hassam-ud Din (13) Thou the Ultimate Wisdom, The Magnanimous Thou art the spirit of Soul; the coral�s luminous Thy Light our morning do illuminate Mansoor�s draught me too intoxicate (14) God�s benevolence has kept me in state How can but wine dares me intoxicate The wine but begs our passion The sky is ever lost to our reason The wine made wanton by us, and not we (15) Body has been made for us, we not for body We are the Bee and the body like wax Divided in holes like Bee-hive, body tax |
| (12 ) Extortion, fairness, grief and happiness are temporary states of mind. One must strive harder to rise above them to seek Allah�s console.
(13) There have been certain delays in writing of the Masanavi, and Rumi is apologizing from Hassam-ud Din, his friend who had motivated him to write it and also served as his secretary in keeping record of the written material. (14) �Saboohi� is used for morning breeze as well as draught of wine. It is the Mansoor al-Hallaj�s intoxication that is affecting Rumi too. (15) The means are not the �ends�; intoxication is a state, a medium to find truth, not the �truth� itself. See more on intoxication. |
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