Islamic Mystical Poetry by Jamal, Mahmood -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover About the Author Title Page Copyright Page Contents Editor’s Acknowledgements Introduction

Origins Sufi Poetry: Style and Content Form Notes

Further Reading Islamic Mystical Poetry

RABIA BASRI (d. AD 801; AH 185)

Your Prayers You Have Infused My Being If I Worship You Two Loves I Give Thee My Rest is in My Solitude If I Did Not Pray In My Soul

MANSUR HALLAJ (d. AD 922; AH 309)

I am at Your Service What Can I Do, O Lord? O You Who are the Object Stillness I Lost Myself in Finding You Kill Me, O My Trusted Friends I Guide My Sight with the Eye of Knowledge Amazed at Thou and I Which Place on Earth? My Heart When the Stallion of Loneliness I Witnessed My Maker You Dwell in My Heart Hidden Love is Always in Danger You Went Away but Remained in Me O Sun, O Moon, O Day Four Letters I Swear by Allah If You Want to Sing I Swim in the Sea of Love Truth

ABU SAID IBN ABIL-KHAIR (d. AD 967–1049; AH 356–440)

Quatrains

SHEIKH ABDULLAH ANSARI OF HERAT (AD 1006–88; AH 395–480)

Prologue When I Could, I Did Not I Have No Key I Come as a Slave O Lord Give Me Wisdom We Have No Excuse Desperate Lovers If I Err The Limit of Speech

AHMAD JAM (AD 1048–1141; AH 439–535)

Your Beauty Wherever I Look Drunk with Love True Destination Of Thy Mercy I am Sure

SANAI GHAZNAVI (d. AD 1131; AH 525)

In the Name of God the Beneficent, the Merciful True Knowledge Give Me Wine In the Grip of Love Love’s Command Invocation The Night of Union

NIZAMI GANJAVI (AD 1140–1202; AH 535–95)

I Have Made a Shrine Majnun

FARIDUDDIN ATTAR (AD 1145–1221; AH 539–617)

The Fire of Your Love The Pain of Love Your Beauty Mosque or Tavern? O You Who Have Revealed What Madness is This? All-pervading Consciousness Drunken Reason Since I Received Your Gift I Shall Be Drunk Tonight The Path of Love You Will Not Mourn Lovers are Strangers My Drunkenness In Love How Can Sober Reason Understand? I Have Broken My Vows In the Place of Majesty Wouldst Thou Inherit Paradise Praise

UMAR IBN AL-FARID (AD 1181–1235; AH 576–632)

The Wine Ode from Poem of the Sufi Way With My Beloved Give Me Excess of Love

MOHYUDDIN IBN ‘ARABI (AD 1165–1240; AH 560–637)

When They Departed As I Kissed the Black Stone O Doves that Haunt Their Abodes Have become Decayed He Saw the Lightning Halt at the Abodes and Weep O Ancient Temple The Soul’s Remorse

JALALUDDIN RUMI (AD 1207–73; AH 604–72)

If You Seek Love My Desire My Soul The Voice of Love Enter the Tumultuous Night Today Where is the Way? On this Path of Love Sublime Who am I? The Song of the Flute Break Your Chains, O Son I’m Drunk Through Love It is the True Beloved Who Causes All Outward Earthly Beauty to Exist He Who Needs Mercy Finds It All False Doctrines Contain an Element of Truth The Eye of Outward Sense All Religions are in Substance One and the Same The Prophet’s Prayer for the Envious People Knowledge of the Heart

IRAQI (d. AD 1289; AH 687)

The Wine Make Me Happy When I Kissed the Earth

SA’DI SHIRAZI (AD c. 1184–1291; AH 579–689)

Couplet The Throne of the Heart In Love In the Company of the Wine-maker

MAHMUD SHABISTARI (d. AD 1320; AH 719)

What am I? Secret of Unity Knower and Known Unity, Travel and Journey Of Modes of Being Being is the Sea Knowledge and Virtue On Virtues and Good Dispositions Beauty Of the Eye and the Lip Of the Mole Wine and Beauty Of Tavern-haunters Idols

SULTAN VELED (AD 1226–1312; AH 622–711)

To Mevlana Value of Words Leave Thy Wisdom Seek Thou God Ghazal

YUNUS EMRE (AD 1238–1321; AH 635–720)

He Who Goes with Love The Mighty One Come Let Us be Comrades Those Who Have Mastered Life’s Meaning Not a Soul I Drank Wine from the Cup-bearer Let’s Not Remain Adoring My Fleeting Life

AMIR KHUSROW DEHLAVI (AD 1253–1325; AH 650–725)

I Asked So be It Better to be a Beggar than a King I am a Believer of Love We Have Passed Our Lives in Search Last Night My Heart Gave Me No Respite

ASHIQ PASHA (AD 1271–1332; AH 669–732)

Love of God The Path Knowledge and Reason

HAFIZ SHIRAZI (c. AD 1320–89; c. AH 720–91)

With Your Black Lashes So Long as Tavern and Wine Abound Rise Up, O Saqi! A Corner of the Tavern Last Night I Dreamt When Shall I Get to Kiss Thee? In the Company of Wine-givers The Puritan Left His Solitude I Have Lost My Heart Good Deeds The Tavern Door Worshipping the Outer Form O Puritan Zahid! Beauty Radiated in Eternity Ask Not of Me I am a Slave of Love The Rule O King of Beauty It’s Better to Pawn this Robe I am a Lover

MAGHRIBI (c. AD 1349–1406; c. AH 750–809)

When the Sun of Your Face O You Who Gave Life to the World O Centre and Pivot of Being Do Not Ask Beloved’s Street You are a Drop O End of Every Beginning Each Way I Turned

SHAH NIMATULLAH (d. AD 1431; AH 834)

King and Beggar are One The Point of the Circle The Named is One

QASIMUL ANWAR (AD 1356–1433; AH 757–837)

Fill My Cup Before the Mosque and Temple In Six Days

KABIR (AD 1398–1447; AH 800–51)

O Friend, Hope for Him Do Not Go to the Garden of Flowers The Moon Shines in My Body The Secret Word The Word All Jewels The River and the Wave Listen to the Heart Who am I? Unity Illusion Light

ABDUR-RAHMAN JAMI (AD 1414–92; AH 817–97)

By the Garden The Meaning of Love O You, Whose Beauty I am So Drunk Creation (from Yusuf and Zulaikha)

SARMAD (d. AD 1661; AH 1071)

Quatrains Congratulations

SULTAN BAHU (c. AD 1628–91; c. AH 1037–1102)

Union with God Love’s Disease Where God is The Heart is a River The Certain Heart Belief The Heart’s River Sigh of the Afflicted The True Kalimah

BABA BULLEH SHAH (AD 1680–1757; AH 1090–1170)

Bulleh, Who Knows Who I am? You Alone Exist It’s a Topsy-turvy World! One Point Contains All He Who is Stricken by Love Love Springs Eternal It is You Alone Fasting, Pilgrimage, Prayer My Lord Comes as Man The God You Find Look into Yourself Destroy the Mosque and Temple!

SHAH ABDUL LATIF BHITTAI (AD 1689–1752; AH 1100–65)

Peace They Have Read and Read You Profess to be Faithful The Body is a Rosary Sohni Creation

SHAH NIAZ (AD 1742–1834; AH 1155–1250)

The Face of Beauty Though I am Buried I Drank from the Saqi’s Eyes I Saw My Beloved in Every Guise Not-being

MIAN MUHAMMAD BAKSH (d. AD 1907; AH 1324 )

The Characteristics of Love and Lovers The Valley of Unity or Oneness

Glossary Copyright Acknowledgements Footnotes

MANSUR HALLAJ (d. AD 922; AH 309)

Page 30

ABU SAID IBN ABIL-KHAIR (d. AD 967–1049; AH 356–440)

Page 35 Page 36

SHEIKH ABDULLAH ANSARI OF HEART (AD 1006–88; AH 395–480)

Page 40

SANAI GHAZNAVI (d. AD 1131; AH 525)

Page 58

FARIDUDDIN ATTAR (AD 1145–1221; AH 539–617)

Page 79 Page 87 Page 88

UMAR IBN AL-FARID (AD 1181–1235; AH 576–632)

Page 97

JALALUDDIN RUMI (AD 1207–73; AH 604–72)

Page 127 Page 130 Page 131 Page 133 Page 134 Page 135 Page 147 Page 150 Page 151 Page 156

MAHMUD SHABISTARI (d. AD 1320; AH 719)

Page 168 Page 169 Page 173 Page 178 Page 179 Page 180 Page 181 Page 185 Page 186

HAFIZ SHIRAZI (c. AD 1320–89; c. AH 720–91)

Page 223 Page 232

MAGHRIBI (c. AD 1349–1406; c. AH 750–809)

Page 249

QASIMUL ANWAR (AD 1356–1433; AH 757–837)

Page 260

ABDUR-RAHMAN JAMI (AD 1414–92; AH 817–97)

Page 279 Page 280 Page 281

SULTAN BAHU (c. AD 1628–91; c. AH 1037–1102)

Page 291

BABA BULLEH SHAH (AD 1680–1757; AH 1090–1170)

Page 305

SHAH ABDUL LATIF BHITTAI (AD 1689–1752; AH 1100–65)

Page 318

MIAN MUHAMMAD BAKSH (d. AD 1907; AH 1324)

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