Sa’d Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari The Secret Rose Garden Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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1 1(1)| Nicholson's Mystics of Islam, p. 117.~ 2 1 | near Tabriz, about A.D. 1250.~He wrote the Gulshan i 3 1 | Europe by two travellers in 1700. Later, copies of the poem 4 1 | several European libraries.~In 1821 Dr. Tholuck, of Berlin, 5 1 | published extracts, and in 1825 a German translation of 6 1 | notes, by Mr. Whinfield in 1880.~SŪFĪ POETRY~Readers of 7 1 | Shabistar, near Tabriz, about A.D. 1250.~He wrote the Gulshan 8 VI | the mystic,~And those who abide in these states~At once 9 I | His face,~Or if His mole abides in my heart.~But this is 10 IX | chamber,~Arrange it as the abiding-place of the Beloved.~When you 11 VII | TAVERN-HAUNTERS~THE tavern is the abode of lovers,~The place where 12 1 | many of us.~Sūfī poetry abounds in allegories and love romances, 13 1 | and Zulaikā, Salāmān and Absāl, in which it is easy to 14 IX | from all these,~For he is absorbed in the contemplation of 15 IX | betwixt~Hell's bottomless abyss,~Fine and sharp as a sword 16 IX | Substance is its consonants and accidents its vowels,~And different 17 I | Because of His eye hearts are aching and drunken.~His ruby lip 18 Ackn | ACKNOWLEDGMENT~I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to Professor 19 Ackn | ACKNOWLEDGMENT~I wish to acknowledge my 20 1 | are we given such daring advice as Jāmī gives when he sings:~" 21 | Afterwards 22 1 | them lingers on through the ages?~The poem opens with the 23 1 | the voice of him who, long ago for love's sake, planted 24 1 | to answer them. I say, 'Ah, who knows what they mean.' 25 1 | He has one desire, one aim, one goal -- to reach the 26 VII | angels drunken, soul drunken,~Air drunken, earth drunken, 27 VII | paradise and houris?~For no alien can find entrance to that 28 II | sword of eloquence,~And all alike bow down,~Saints and kings, 29 1 | exquisite is the vision of the All-Beautiful that whoever has had this 30 1 | Sūfī poetry abounds in allegories and love romances, the stories 31 IV | fire;~If it contains no alloy, what is there to burn?~ 32 II | earthly beauty only~Can so allure us with its loveliness.~ 33 1 | the mirage, to ignore the allurement and illusion of earthly 34 XIII | the call of the One, the Almighty.~. . . Why tarry till the 35 IV | ALMOND-TREE~As the kernel of an almond is spoilt utterly~If it 36 IV | THE ALMOND-TREE~As the kernel of an almond 37 | already 38 IX | concealed.~ ./. And this light alters not nor varies~And is void 39 Note | these books shall be the ambassadors of good-will and understanding 40 I | when the perfume of that~amber-scented curl~Was blown by the wind 41 | among 42 | amongst 43 1 | knowledge of Sūfiism there is ample evidence in this book; and 44 I | breathlessly start working anew~To tear my heart out of 45 IV | temptations assail him.~. . . Anger appears and desires of the 46 VII | intoxication comes headache,~Anguish drowns my soul remembering 47 1 | unconscious,~And my attributes are annihilated.~To-day I am lost to all 48 1 | Spirit plunged like a diver.~Anon He rose from the depths 49 IV | For they are a source of anxiety.~ 50 1 | Evil.~He makes a passionate appeal to humanity to seek for 51 XIII | Divine,~Contemplate the appearance of the heavens,~So that 52 IX | over-cunning or a fool,~His appetites are under control,~From 53 VI | will show you more of their application.~ 54 VI | meanings~So that you may apply them in their right intent,~ 55 1 | bodies; each form will be appropriate to its past life. The material 56 IV | FEAR~As the Arab racer needs not the whip,~ 57 XIII | Truth will be thine.~The arch of the high heavens enclosing 58 XIII | with demons, Satan with the archangel.~All mingled like seed and 59 III | wave that breaks in foaming arcs~Casts up a thousand royal 60 IV | you?~You, who are a man, arise and pass on,~Wait not day 61 VII | dizzy from the wine-fumes' aroma,~Is staggering to and fro;~ 62 IX | out your heart's chamber,~Arrange it as the abiding-place 63 XIV | and mystical truths,~All arranged clearly in knowledge of 64 II | fairness,~Throwing the world's array into confusion;~Now riding 65 IV | his selfhood utterly~And ascends in the steps of the most 66 I | a spell the devotee and ascetic~Turns again to wine, lamp, 67 VIII | Yet of good and evil God asks him,~Man has no choice, 68 V | hear the meaning.~You are asleep, and your vision is a dream,~ 69 IV | the world's temptations assail him.~. . . Anger appears 70 1 | worshipped Him as a person, or assigned to Him a form.~Being pantheists, 71 Ackn | has been of the greatest assistance to me in compiling this 72 1 | Every instant the Loved One assumes a new garment, now of old, 73 IV | whence he came.~To faith assured he has found his way~Through 74 VII | Universal Reason seeing this is astounded,~Universal Soul is reduced 75 IV | this snare,~He goes further astray than the beasts;~But if 76 XIII | food or sleep.~When the astrologer is an unbeliever,~He sees 77 1 | drink water, when I was athirst,~But I saw an image of Thee 78 XIII | pleasure without pain?~Who, in attaining all his desires,~Has remained 79 1 | form, and what perfumed attar from them lingers on through 80 IV | proof, or the wonder~And attraction of the Divine,~He throws 81 IV | the spirit world,~Divinely attractive,~Or if he can find a reflection 82 1 | reflects some one Divine attribute:~"Each atom hides beneath 83 IV | desires of the flesh,~And then avarice, pride, and gluttony;~His 84 IV | that staff~And enter for awhile "The Valley of Peace."~ 85 XIII | bewildered and sometimes travels~Backward in a circle, or is imprisoned~ 86 XIV | Knowledge~And, passing to me, bade me drink,~Saying, "With 87 1 | mud that is moulded and baked,~Then he appeared in the 88 II | has attained the rightful balance,~Becoming aware of this 89 XIV | drained to the dregs,~In the bare dust I fell.~Since then 90 VI | Nile,~In the heart of a barley-corn is stored an hundred harvests,~ 91 1 | Lights is blinded like a bat by the sun. It is then a 92 III | curving forms~To strew the beach with beauty.~Each wave that 93 XII | symbols of Being.~By counting beads, repeating prayers,~And 94 III | Into the ocean's depths,~Bearing in their hearts the pearl 95 IV | further astray than the beasts;~But if there shines a light 96 1 | of a reed torn from its bed and made into a flute whose 97 1 | time went on certain words began to have a recognized meaning 98 1 | companion, Him we see,~In beggar's rags or robes of royalty,~ 99 | Begin 100 VI | you will see a thousand beings,~A gnat in its limbs is 101 1 | the Unseen, he does not believe in its existence.~But whosoever 102 VIII | man blind from his birth~Believes not nor understands~Your 103 1 | it had, even that which belongs to the spiritual world." 1~ 104 | beside 105 Ackn | Cranmer-Byng I offer my best thanks for his kind interest 106 IX | and defect,~A narrow path betwixt~Hell's bottomless abyss,~ 107 XIII | prove the necessary,~Is bewildered and sometimes travels~Backward 108 II | Straightway is enamoured and bewitched.~And from this mystic marriage 109 1 | heart-ravishing, ~And His bewitching state the union of unions. ~ 110 IX | robe~Of the dervish~And bind on the Magian girdle.~Be 111 I | s caravan~And with knots binding it tight.~Never at rest 112 VIII | As the man blind from his birth~Believes not nor understands~ 113 VI | EVIL~BLACKEN the back of a mirror~And 114 VII | exalted as racers,~Or with blackened faces turned to the wall,~ 115 I | mansion of Eternal Life.~The blackness of His curl turns day into 116 IX | Fine and sharp as a sword blade,~Which permits no lingering~ 117 1 | Indeed, I cannot tell.' They blame me and they go away in scorn. 118 IX | Kibla cast,~Drowned in a blaze of radiant light.~Hail, 119 I | from there.~. . . Hearts bleed because they are a reflection~ 120 XIV | seek with cold eyes to find blemishes,~Or the roses will turn 121 1 | at the Light of Lights is blinded like a bat by the sun. It 122 VII | are the essence of that blinding light,~Beauty is the sign 123 VIII | THE BLINDNESS OF REASON~As the man blind 124 VII | what intoxication! what blissful ecstasy!~ ./. Oh! happy 125 I | moment by His kiss.~Our blood is at fever point because 126 I | that~amber-scented curl~Was blown by the wind on his clay.~ 127 IX | seen of men,~Cast off the blue-patched robe~Of the dervish~And 128 1 | the Indian poet Tagore:~"I boasted among men that I had known 129 IX | control,~From cringing and boasting he is free,~And from foolhardiness 130 III | each closed as by a hundred bonds,~And the shells sink back 131 1 | the Sūfīs, it should be borne in mind that, though the~ 132 IX | narrow path betwixt~Hell's bottomless abyss,~Fine and sharp as 133 XIV | EPILOGUE~THIS bouquet of scented blossoms~I have 134 II | eloquence,~And all alike bow down,~Saints and kings, 135 XIII | races and species.~All, bowing to their Master's commands,~ 136 VII | servitude.~Drink wine! for the bowl is the face of the Friend.~ 137 VII | becomes religious,~One from a bowlful becomes a lover,~Another 138 IV | into a tree,~Whose high branches are lifted up to heaven;~ 139 III | with beauty.~Each wave that breaks in foaming arcs~Casts up 140 I | tear my heart out of my breast.~. . . Sore troubled am 141 XIV | thankful.~When you remember me, breathe "Mercy be upon him."~I am 142 I | cannot wait for a moment,~But breathlessly start working anew~To tear 143 1 | intensity, a beautiful luminous brightness.~They are in love with The 144 III | speech,~And dainty shells bring poems in their curving forms~ 145 IV | this tree~A hundredfold are brought forth.~Like the growth of 146 VI | As curl, down, mole, and brow on a fair face.~For Beauty 147 VII | from his face,~Reveals the bubbles of form,~Such as the material 148 1 | headlong.~Rūmī sings:~"Moths, burnt by the torch of the Beloved' 149 IV | illumined,~The kernel ripens, bursts the husk,~And departs, returning 150 XIII | valley of peace,~The very bush will say to you, "I am Allah"?~ ./. 151 XIII | ears,~And hearken to the call of the One, the Almighty.~. . . 152 1 | through which a frenzied~camel madly plunges, of a reed 153 IX | PART IX~MAN: HIS CAPABILITIES AND HIS DESTINY~ 154 Ackn | works on Sūfiism, and to Captain L. Cranmer-Byng I offer 155 I | hands plundering Reason's caravan~And with knots binding it 156 IV | fellow-travellers and the caravans.~ 157 XIII | wine.~. . . When you have carded self~Like the wool-carder, 158 XII | release from humanity's carnal desire~And you will enter 159 XII | as the angels are~Will be carried up to the fourth heaven.~ 160 IV | leave to the vultures this carrion world.~Forsake your relations,~ 161 1 | the scented~blossoms to carry back into the world of shadows 162 1 | and journeys towards God; casting away self, he will meet 163 III | that breaks in foaming arcs~Casts up a thousand royal pearls~ 164 VI | opposite Reality,~Instantly catches its reflection.~Know the 165 VII | Fall into water and fire.~Catching the reflection, the frail 166 IX | self is disclosed the final cause,~For there is none beyond 167 V | illusion;~When you have ceased to see double,~Earth and 168 1 | robes of royalty,~In Union's cell or in distraction haunts,~ 169 VIII | you show him proofs for a century,~So blind reason cannot 170 I | reflection,~Why is it ever so changing?~ ./. Sometimes tired like 171 IX | transcendent spheres,~The "chapter of the seven limbs,"~And 172 Note | revival of that true spirit of Charity which neither despises nor 173 II | virtuous living,~And the fair child Beauty.~And the Great Soul 174 IV | lord of his will,~As in childhood his discernment of the world 175 VIII | God asks him,~Man has no choice, he is under control.~Oh! 176 IX | SŪFĪS~You are bound by a chord~To the soul of the creatures 177 XII | mosque is no better~Than a Christian cloister;~But when the garment 178 XIII | night~Heaven outspans your circuits, O dervish!~ ./. The other 179 XIII | He sees not that these circulating lights of heaven~Are dominated 180 III | Truth).~Straightway is each closed as by a hundred bonds,~And 181 XIII | Though unclothed, yet is clothed again,~Though at rest, yet 182 III | It has existed as mist, cloud, rain, dew, and mud,~Then 183 II | we see in this, as in a cloudy mirror,~The far faint reflect 184 XIV | detail.~Do not seek with cold eyes to find blemishes,~ 185 IX | learns a trade,~By habit he collects his thoughts.~Remember at 186 XIV | Sūfīs' tales;~Entering the college veiled as a drunkard,~The 187 1 | beautiful in their vivid colouring of Truth and Purity. But 188 II | Now riding the steed of comeliness,~Now flourishing the sword 189 IV | who knows from whence he cometh;~Then doth he journey hastily,~ 190 XIII | bowing to their Master's commands,~Fulfil His will day and 191 1 | spend his whole life in communion with God, at the same time 192 1 | In neighbour, friend, companion, Him we see,~In beggar's 193 IV | THE FORSAKING~SEE, your companions have gone;~Will you not 194 1 | worthless, insipid, and dull, compared to his flaming devotion 195 VI | And refrain from the wrong comparisons.~Now that these rules are 196 I | often His lip quivers with compassion.~ ./. Sometimes He charms 197 I | IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE COMPASSIONATE, THE MERCIFUL~PART I~THE 198 Ackn | greatest assistance to me in compiling this little volume. I am 199 1 | conversation~In the midst of my comrades.~And I never mentioned Thee 200 IX | bright light,~And the saint, concealing his saintship,~Is as the 201 XII | is hidden,~And true faith conceals infidelity.~Who adorned 202 1 | THE BELOVED~The Sūfīs' conception of the Beloved is essentially 203 Note | example in the land. They are confident that a deeper knowledge 204 1 | distinguish sharply between the conflicting forces of Good and Evil.~ 205 VI | as light and dark are not connected,~Being is not joined to 206 1 | by the sun. It is then a consciousness arises in the soul of its 207 1 | illusion which is typified by considering the unreality of echoes 208 VIII | why!)~The honour of man consists of slavery,~In having no 209 IX | understands.~Substance is its consonants and accidents its vowels,~ 210 VIII | angels,~Even so doth it consume reason.~As the light of 211 1 | contemplating His attributes, and consumed with a burning desire for 212 XII | miracles,~For your miracles are contained~In worshipping the Truth;~ 213 1 | dream of their God, ever contemplating His attributes, and consumed 214 XIII | natural passions,~Preserving, continuing their races and species.~ 215 XIII | heaven~Are dominated and controlled by The Truth.~ 216 1 | remains a matter of heated controversy to this day.~Neither are 217 1 | Thou wert the subject of my conversation~In the midst of my comrades.~ 218 1 | my dream.~And I never sat conversing with any people~But Thou 219 1 | travellers in 1700. Later, copies of the poem were found in 220 I | the lip?~Let us consider.~Coquettish and intoxicating glances 221 VI | the pupil of an eye,~The core in the centre of the heart 222 I | heaven's gate for us.~A corn-baited snare is each glance of 223 I | wine-shop lurks in each corner.~When He frowns the wide 224 XIII | raise a cry.~Oh! take the cotton of illusion from your ears,~ 225 | could 226 IX | kingdoms~Whose verses none can count.~And last of all came down 227 V | numbers, but only One is counted.~ ./. 228 XII | the symbols of Being.~By counting beads, repeating prayers,~ 229 IX | SAGE~VIRTUE and equity,~Courage and temperance,~Are the 230 VIII | letter;~The dry husk that covers the nut,~Not the kernel 231 IX | And from foolhardiness and cowardice.~All virtues lie between~ 232 IV | THE young infant in the cradle~Stays at his mother's side,~ 233 1 | would have visited Thee,~Crawling on my face or walking on 234 Note | fears the nations of another creed and colour.~L. CRANMER-BYNG.~ 235 IX | are under control,~From cringing and boasting he is free,~ 236 I | it should be twisted~And crooked and difficult.~ ./. That 237 IX | is over~He receives the crown of Khalifate.~ ./. 238 VII | ransom~Pilgrim's staff and cruse,~Dentifrice and rosary.~ 239 IX | become a faithful servant,~Cultivate faith and sincerity,~Renew 240 VII | draught~Goblet, tavern, cup-bearer, and drunkards;~He swallows 241 III | shells bring poems in their curving forms~To strew the beach 242 XIII | present are gathered~All cycles and seasons, day, month, 243 1 | the religious habit."~SA’D UD DIN MAHMŪD SHABISTARĪ 244 III | the shore of speech,~And dainty shells bring poems in their 245 VII | stake.~Now in the mystic dance of joy in the Beloved,~Losing 246 1 | Neither are we given such daring advice as Jāmī gives when 247 XIV | before mine eyes;~My soul was darkened with shame~To remember my 248 IV | Till he is led away~From darkness and sin.~He now retraces 249 1 | Its diamond turrets like a day-dream rise."~THE ART OF SHABISTARĪ~ 250 XIV | my lost life,~My wasted days.~ 251 XIII | proofs.~Fool! he seeks the dazzling sun~By the dim light of 252 1(1)| Philosophy of Plotinus, by Dean Inge.~ 253 1 | in the world." 2~And Jāmī declares:~"In neighbour, friend, 254 Note | They are confident that a deeper knowledge of the great ideals 255 IX | virtues lie between~Excess and defect,~A narrow path betwixt~Hell' 256 XIII | Going from perfection to defection?~Why do they change position,~ 257 Note | of this series is a very definite one. They desire above all 258 IV | world is yours, you remain dejected,~Who so pitiable as you?~ 259 1 | Sūfīs, where, midst the delicate perfumes of an Oriental 260 II | And these deep feelings of delight and wonder~Can only issue 261 XIV | have found in Him,~Gaining deliverance from self,~My heart was 262 VIII | these are falsehoods and delusions~That come from an illusory 263 I | because of His eye,~Our souls demented because of His lip.~How 264 IV | Worse than an animal or demon;~Now is he at the lowest 265 XIII | mingled together,~Angels with demons, Satan with the archangel.~ 266 VII | Pilgrim's staff and cruse,~Dentifrice and rosary.~Sometimes rising 267 IV | ripens, bursts the husk,~And departs, returning no more.~But 268 1 | is a peculiar richness, a depth, a colour which fascinates 269 II | down,~Saints and kings, dervishes and prophets,~Swayed by 270 II | THE MARRIAGE OF THE SOUL~DESCENDING to the earth,~That strange 271 II | BEAUTY~FROM the unseen world descends~Heavenly beauty,~And plants 272 VI | visions of the ecstatic~Be described in earthly formula?~So mystics 273 VII | form.~The tavern-haunter is desolate in a lonely desert,~Where 274 I | would give up our lives with despair at His frown,~But would 275 I | humanity,~And gives help to the despairing.~It is His smile that gives 276 XIII | Each atom, held in bondage,~Despairs at its separation from the 277 Note | of Charity which neither despises nor fears the nations of 278 I | because of His lip.~How He has despoiled our hearts by a frown!~How 279 IX | HIS CAPABILITIES AND HIS DESTINY~ 280 V | Eternal One,~Creates and destroys both worlds.~. . . The varied 281 XIV | clearly in knowledge of detail.~Do not seek with cold eyes 282 XIII | not the prison of nature detain you,~But come forth and 283 1 | foster this instinct and develop this longing, a Divine light 284 I | After a spell the devotee and ascetic~Turns again 285 III | existed as mist, cloud, rain, dew, and mud,~Then plant, animal, 286 1 | lost wanderer's sight~Its diamond turrets like a day-dream 287 I | twisted~And crooked and difficult.~ ./. That curl enchains 288 V | is an imaginary figure,~A diffused shadow of the Infinite;~ 289 XIII | the dazzling sun~By the dim light of a candle in the 290 1 | religious habit."~SA’D UD DIN MAHMŪD SHABISTARĪ was born 291 1 | s vision of Reality was direct and distinct, not the oblique 292 1 | Jāmī, yet in plainness and directness of speech, and in earnestness 293 1 | shape, ravishes the soul and disappears.~Every instant the Loved 294 1 | it is possible for man to discern the light of the Spirit. 295 XIII | who sees by illumination~Discerns God first in everything,~ 296 1 | he had a very favourite disciple called Shaikh Ibrahim.~The 297 XII | and piety,~Teachership and discipleship?~Which mean hypocrisy and 298 XII | pretended faith becomes disgusted.~Within every body a soul 299 1 | the Deity, by the apparent disregard of all human and Divine 300 1 | of Reality was direct and distinct, not the oblique view which 301 1 | idle tale. No quality or distinction will remain for the perfect 302 1 | this Reality he is able to distinguish sharply between the conflicting 303 1 | royalty,~In Union's cell or in distraction haunts,~There's none but 304 VIII | Free-will of yours?~Imagination distributes actions~As in a play or 305 XIV | faithful, another an infidel,~Disturbing the world.~Taverns have 306 III | the pearl drops~Which the divers seek and find.~The sea is 307 XIII | pieces;~The world is whirling dizzily, yet no one part~Moves from 308 VII | heaven drunken.~ ./. The sky, dizzy from the wine-fumes' aroma,~ 309 1 | Sūfī doctor of Herat named Dmir Syad Hosaini.~Very little 310 1 | questions put forth by a Sūfī doctor of Herat named Dmir Syad 311 XII | blessed Spirit,~Taught this doctrine.~ ./. In you is placed a 312 XIII | circulating lights of heaven~Are dominated and controlled by The Truth.~ 313 | done 314 XIV | The fair idol entered my door~And woke me from my sleep~ 315 V | point.~Time is but a fancied dot ever moving on~Which you 316 1 | meaning is concealed. No doubt this was originally done 317 XIV | your heart's eyes~Till your doubts melt away.~You will see 318 1 | the candle, the moaning dove who has lost her mate, the 319 1 | of unreality, and in the downward journey must keep the ordinary 320 II | Great Soul gives to man as dowry~The hidden glory of the 321 XIV | pure draught~Which I had drained to the dregs,~In the bare 322 IV | he is living~And from God draws his motive powers.~Next 323 IX | moment,~Passing from this dream-life,~With self discarded,~Will 324 VII | visions, and states,~Beyond dreaming of secret rooms, of lights 325 VI | illusions are the mystic's dreams,~And a man of truth does 326 IX | west is His Kibla cast,~Drowned in a blaze of radiant light.~ 327 IV | must be sought.~He who is drowning in the sea of Not-being~ 328 VII | comes headache,~Anguish drowns my soul remembering this!~ 329 VIII | wrapping~Of the letter;~The dry husk that covers the nut,~ 330 1 | worthless, insipid, and dull, compared to his flaming 331 VII | From sweeping the dust of dung-hills from their souls,~From grasping 332 IV | absolute illusion.~Omit not the duties~Of the law to them,~But 333 VII | be always alone.~For the dwellers there are headless and footless,~ 334 XIII | OF THE ATOMS~CONTINUALLY dwelling in all mystic lore,~Continually 335 IX | every instant~While unbelief dwells in your heart.~ ./. Abandon 336 III | flash~Bears to the listening ear voices and messages~From 337 1 | directness of speech, and in earnestness of purpose, he perhaps outweighs 338 1 | and Absāl, in which it is easy to read the hidden meaning 339 1 | Because my mouth has eaten of His sweetmeats~In a clear 340 V | desert,~Listening to the echo of strange noises.~ 341 1 | considering the unreality of echoes and reflections and by pondering 342 VI | how can the visions of the ecstatic~Be described in earthly 343 1 | and extracts from Hammer's edition and Lajihi's notes, by Mr. 344 Note | EDITORIAL NOTE~ ./. THE object of 345 Note | NOTE~ ./. THE object of the Editors of this series is a very 346 XIV | THE EFFECT OF THE DRAUGHT~INTOXICATED 347 1 | cannot compare with the elegance of Jāmī, yet in plainness 348 VI | in its limbs is like an elephant;~In name a drop of water 349 II | flourishing the sword of eloquence,~And all alike bow down,~ 350 | else 351 IX | your dispositions will be embodied,~Made manifest as lights 352 1 | themselves. For instance:~EMBRACES and KISSES are raptures 353 I | difficult.~ ./. That curl enchains lovers' hearts,~And bears 354 XIII | arch of the high heavens enclosing both worlds~Is called "The 355 Note | the new of Action. In this endeavour, and in their own sphere, 356 VII | desert is limitless and endless,~For no man has seen its 357 IX | permanent of itself~And endures because of its own nature,~ 358 IV | Your very son may be your enemy,~Yet may a stranger be your 359 1 | Rāz was translated into English and published, with the 360 | enough 361 1 | SYMBOLISM~In reading the enraptured poetry of the Sūfīs, it 362 I | clay.~And I too possess an ensample;~I cannot wait for a moment,~ 363 I | spider spreads its nets to ensnare,~So does the Beloved in 364 XIV | at the dawn~The fair idol entered my door~And woke me from 365 XIII | the part.~When the idea enters the mind,~It is a reminiscence 366 VIII | the hands of the soul,~The entire direction is given to me."~ 367 IX | CAST away your existence entirely,~For it is nought but weeds 368 1 | garden, the lover is singing entrancing~love-songs, whether of earthly 369 III | Wisdom is the diver~Who holds enwrapped in his garment~A hundred 370 XIV | EPILOGUE~THIS bouquet of scented 371 V | unseen world~A day of which equals a year of this?~Come and 372 IX | him~Who has attained this equilibrium.~ 373 IX | lingering~Or turning round.~Equipoise is the summit of perfection,~ 374 IX | THE SAGE~VIRTUE and equity,~Courage and temperance,~ 375 I | holy presence.~Beauty is erased by His cheek, who says,~" 376 IV | its husk while unripe,~So error in the path of the pilgrim~ 377 I | stagnant; for there is no escape~Of the reflection from the 378 I | Are tightly bound, not one escapes, alas!~No single infidel 379 1 | conception of the Beloved is essentially personal, though there is 380 1 | her face, so do the Sūfīs eternally dream of their God, ever 381 1 | shadows he fixes his eye on Eternity; the happenings of the universe 382 1 | Rāz was introduced into Europe by two travellers in 1700. 383 1 | poem were found in several European libraries.~In 1821 Dr. Tholuck, 384 1 | future time, and on passing~events, which seem at the moment 385 | everywhere 386 1 | of Sūfiism there is ample evidence in this book; and though 387 VII | world of bliss,~With necks exalted as racers,~Or with blackened 388 1 | Divine laws. But on further examination the wonder of the Sūfīs' 389 Note | followers of the highest example in the land. They are confident 390 IX | All virtues lie between~Excess and defect,~A narrow path 391 1 | surprised that that which excites the keenest of longings 392 IV | EXHORTATION~THOUGH the world is yours, 393 III | forms and names;~It has existed as mist, cloud, rain, dew, 394 IX | going,~And the thousand existences that lie before you!~ 395 VI | great faith.~Briefly have I explained these words and their meanings~ 396 VI | the Infinite,~How can we express its mysteries~In finite 397 1 | Naught remains but a forced expression."~Passing through a world 398 1 | perhaps even repelled, by the extravagant language, by the familiarity 399 1 | appear to him unworthy of exultation, grief, or sorrow.~Earthly 400 XIV | cloister at night,~He makes a fable of Sūfīs' tales;~Entering 401 1 | and unreality. What is the fadeless colour of these Roses? What 402 V | yours when this dream-world~Fades and dies away.~ ./. 403 1 | existence to be real, but fading into the past become vague 404 II | a cloudy mirror,~The far faint reflect of the Perfect Face.~ 405 1 | ourselves in the twilight of a faintly-coloured land where we sometimes 406 II | flag in the city~Of earthly fairness,~Throwing the world's array 407 IV | relations are a bond, a spell,~A fairy dream,~An absolute illusion.~ 408 VII | ourselves we quit,~When fallen in the dust, drunken and 409 III | the sea a mist,~ ./. Which falls again in raindrops~Into 410 VIII | foolish one, these are falsehoods and delusions~That come 411 IX | is the mystic path.~He is famed for knowledge and devotion,~ 412 1 | extravagant language, by the familiarity with the Deity, by the apparent 413 1 | Oriental mysticism has become famous by its poets, and into poetry 414 V | tiny point.~Time is but a fancied dot ever moving on~Which 415 1 | and rapture.~To find the far-off mystic city which~"Mystery 416 VIII | actions~As in a play or a farce,~ ./. For when your actions 417 1 | a depth, a colour which fascinates and charms so many of us.~ 418 1 | PERFUME the wish for Divine favour.~IDOLATERS mean men of the 419 1 | We learn he had a very favourite disciple called Shaikh Ibrahim.~ 420 Note | which neither despises nor fears the nations of another creed 421 IV | will his heart respond in a feeling of kinship~To this Light 422 II | Perfect Face.~And these deep feelings of delight and wonder~Can 423 XIV | dregs,~In the bare dust I fell.~Since then I know not if 424 IX | subdued light of the moon.~By fellowship, the saint~Is intimate with 425 IV | Should he remain fettered in this snare,~He goes further 426 VII | beginning or ending.~Though you feverishly wander for a hundred years~ 427 VIII | Reality.~Begin to till your field~For next year's harvest.~ 428 V | THE world is an imaginary figure,~A diffused shadow of the 429 XIV | Seeing I had cast hope away,~Filled a goblet of Divine Knowledge~ 430 1 | flute whose plaintive music fills the eyes with tears. 1~THE 431 IX | s self is disclosed the final cause,~For there is none 432 IX | intimate with the prophet,~And finding entrance to that secret 433 IX | Hell's bottomless abyss,~Fine and sharp as a sword blade,~ 434 I | Yea," His lip "Nay."~He finished the creation of the world 435 1 | through a world of shadows he fixes his eye on Eternity; the 436 II | Heavenly beauty,~And plants its flag in the city~Of earthly fairness,~ 437 1 | and dull, compared to his flaming devotion for the Unchangeable.~ 438 IV | appears and desires of the flesh,~And then avarice, pride, 439 IV | remain with your mother,~The fleshly elements,~Until you join 440 VIII | mysteries.~And like the fire in flint and steel~When these are 441 1 | but One, know but One."~FLORENCE LEDERER.~ 442 II | steed of comeliness,~Now flourishing the sword of eloquence,~ 443 VI | drop of water,~From it will flow a hundred clear oceans;~ 444 V | Which you have called a flowing river-stream.~I am alone 445 1 | its bed and made into a flute whose plaintive music fills 446 1 | with the rose, the moth fluttering round the light of the candle, 447 V | Then you, rid of self, fly upwards~And are united to 448 III | Each wave that breaks in foaming arcs~Casts up a thousand 449 1 | He goes by, so all souls follow~Grasping the hem of His 450 1 | intoxication of the cup of union is followed by the headache of separation.~ 451 XIII | wheel,~Rushing on without food or sleep.~When the astrologer 452 IX | boasting he is free,~And from foolhardiness and cowardice.~All virtues 453 VIII | direction is given to me."~Oh! foolish one, these are falsehoods 454 VII | dwellers there are headless and footless,~Neither the faithful nor 455 1 | infidels.~WINE, which was forbidden by Mahomet to his followers, 456 1 | poetry it has thrown all its force and fire."~"The Sūfīs . . . 457 1 | things:~Naught remains but a forced expression."~Passing through 458 1 | between the conflicting forces of Good and Evil.~He makes 459 | former 460 VI | Be described in earthly formula?~So mystics veil their meanings~ 461 IV | vultures this carrion world.~Forsake your relations,~For your 462 IV | THE FORSAKING~SEE, your companions have 463 IX | reason and mind is your fortune,~Earth and heavens your 464 1 | for holiness. If man will foster this instinct and develop 465 VII | Catching the reflection, the frail body becomes a soul,~And 466 VII | dying to self,~You will be freed from the spell of self.~ 467 VIII | are helpless in his grasp;~Freedom from self you will find 468 1 | earthly love and beauty are freely used, yet the real meaning 469 1 | the desert through which a frenzied~camel madly plunges, of 470 XIII | and form?~Or why is heaven fretted by fire~Always whirling 471 I | in each corner.~When He frowns the wide world is laid waste,~ 472 VII | becomes a soul,~And the frozen soul by its heat~Thaws and 473 XIII | All mingled like seed and fruit,~Infidel with faithful, 474 IX | Habit makes dispositions~As fruits become ripe by time.~By 475 XIII | their Master's commands,~Fulfil His will day and night.~ 476 XIV | Sometimes, like His eye, I am full of joy,~Or, like His curl, 477 VIII | brother, hearken,~Strive to gain knowledge of faith,~For 478 XIV | desire I have found in Him,~Gaining deliverance from self,~My 479 XI | THE GAMBLE OF THE SELF~REAL prayer 480 XI | When you have staked and gambled yourself away~And your essence 481 IX | Earth and heavens your garments.~. . Your natural powers 482 I | breath that opens heaven's gate for us.~A corn-baited snare 483 XIII | point of the present are gathered~All cycles and seasons, 484 III | strange murmuring voices,~Gems of devotion, joy, and love.~ 485 1 | extracts, and in 1825 a German translation of part of the 486 VII | The creature world remains giddy,~For ever straying from 487 XIV | THE GIFT~THEN that moon~Whose face 488 XII | Is the knotted girdle.~So gird your loins, like a valiant 489 1(2)| Gitanjali, by Rabindranath Tagore.~ 490 I | Coquettish and intoxicating glances shine from His eye.~The 491 I | of life.~If only you can glimpse His face and its down,~You 492 XIV | world.~Taverns have been glorified by His lips,~Mosques have 493 1 | SHABISTARĪ~"It is inward glow that makes the Sūfī, not 494 1 | Rose-tree of glory unequalled, glowing with the blossoms of love' 495 IV | then avarice, pride, and gluttony;~His nature becomes evil,~ 496 VI | see a thousand beings,~A gnat in its limbs is like an 497 VII | sipping pure wine from goblets,~Pour down the dregs on 498 I | Are held captive as by a golden chain.~I spoke too openly 499 IV | SEE, your companions have gone;~Will you not too make a 500 Note | shall be the ambassadors of good-will and understanding between