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From the Land of Soul (11/17/2024)

O Beloved whose light comes from behind the curtain,

Your light and warmth are like summer for us.

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At the time of evening prayers,

everyone lights their candle and sets their table.

Yet, I put the Beloved’s image in front of me.

Your greatness cannot be contained in souls.

You are beyond comprehension and imagination.

My mind doesn’t understand without You.

My hand doesn’t reach anywhere

Like every other day, we are desperately in Love today.

Don’t open the door of thought.

Play the rebab whose sound makes us forget everything.

There are a hundred different prayers

for the one whose alter is the face of the Beloved.

Rubailer (2016), Rubia #4, page 46.

Even if sugar envies your sweet smile,

Even if sultans are your slaves and servants,

if you make this rotten world your Qibla,*

you are dead, and people are licking your corpse.

*Qibla Direction of prayer.

Rubailer, Page 371, Rubai #4