Sa’d Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari The Secret Rose Garden Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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501 I | spoke too openly of that graceful form,~But the end of the 502 XIV | with my own name,~"O Allah, grant me a 'Lauded' end." 1~ 503 Ackn | this little volume. I am grateful to Dr. R. A. Nicholson for 504 Ackn | Gulshan i Rāz, has been of the greatest assistance to me in compiling 505 I | unseen world the down is as green meadows~Leading to the mansion 506 1 | unworthy of exultation, grief, or sorrow.~Earthly love 507 IV | mother's side,~But when he is grown manly~He goes forth with 508 IV | brought forth.~Like the growth of a seed into the line 509 IX | THE BELOVED GUEST~CAST away your existence 510 1 | WINE-SELLER means the spiritual guide.~A TAVERN is a place where 511 IV | LOGIC~IF God guides you not into the road,~It 512 1 | lasting songs. The secret gushes out from my heart. They 513 IX | at the last day~All your habits and actions~Will be clearly 514 V | what is Mount Kaf?~What is Hades and what is Heaven and Hell?~ 515 1 | the subtle fascination of Hafiz, though he has not the originality 516 IX | blaze of radiant light.~Hail, O Light of God, O Shadowless 517 I | imagine, hidden beneath each hair of His cheek,~Thousands 518 1 | treatises on Sūfiism called Hakk ul Yakin and Risala i Shadīd.~ ./. 519 VII | becomes a relater,~One from half a draught becomes religious,~ 520 IV | not day or night at the halting-stages,~Tarry not behind your fellow-travellers 521 VII | room.~I know not what will happen after~I have seen this vision 522 1 | his eye on Eternity; the happenings of the universe appear to 523 XIII | NO COMPLETE HAPPINESS HERE~WHOM have you seen 524 VII | blissful ecstasy!~ ./. Oh! happy moment when ourselves we 525 VIII | your field~For next year's harvest.~Knowledge is your heritage,~ 526 IV | cometh;~Then doth he journey hastily,~Becoming as pure from self 527 1 | s cell or in distraction haunts,~There's none but He, by 528 VII | For the dwellers there are headless and footless,~Neither the 529 1 | Love they cast themselves headlong.~Rūmī sings:~"Moths, burnt 530 I | because of His eye,~And are healed again by the smile of His 531 XIV | nature,~I am lying on a dust heap.~Sometimes, at a glance 532 VII | Drink wine! and be free from heart-coldness,~For a drunkard is better 533 1 | light of light is His beauty heart-ravishing, ~And His bewitching state 534 VII | And the frozen soul by its heat~Thaws and becomes living.~ 535 1 | intoxication remains a matter of heated controversy to this day.~ 536 XII | And reading the Koran,~The heathen becomes not a Mussulman.~ 537 XIV | me~In its true light.~I heaved a sigh of wonder~When I 538 XIII | seem to you~Drunken and heavy with wine.~. . . When you 539 XIII | desires,~Has remained at his height of perfection?~ 540 Ackn | in my work, and for many helpful hints and suggestions.~ ./. 541 VIII | to the Truth,~For you are helpless in his grasp;~Freedom from 542 1 | souls follow~Grasping the hem of His garment.~~~ 543 1 | forth by a Sūfī doctor of Herat named Dmir Syad Hosaini.~ 544 VIII | harvest.~Knowledge is your heritage,~Be adorned with the principle 545 I | end of the curl told me to hide its glory,~So that the path 546 1 | everything that may be a hindrance in his path, and he will 547 Ackn | work, and for many helpful hints and suggestions.~ ./. 548 1 | desire for His presence.~The history of mysticism contains many 549 1 | sometimes wander, drawn hither by the sweet voices of the 550 1 | lip~May learn the wine of holier love to sip."~Mahmūd's vision 551 1 | for God and a longing for holiness. If man will foster this 552 VIII | without how or why!)~The honour of man consists of slavery,~ 553 XIV | drunkard,~The professor becomes hopelessly drunken.~ ./. Devotees go 554 VIII | Free-will,~For my body is the horse and my soul the rider,~The 555 1 | of Herat named Dmir Syad Hosaini.~Very little is known of 556 Note | all things that, in their humble way, these books shall be 557 IV | the seed of this tree~A hundredfold are brought forth.~Like 558 XIII | possessing self-knowledge, and so~Hurrying towards the throne on high.~ 559 III | knowledge;~Then when the husks are opened,~Behold the royal 560 XII | discipleship?~Which mean hypocrisy and bondage.~Then idols 561 1 | favourite disciple called Shaikh Ibrahim.~The Gulshan i Rāz was introduced 562 Note | deeper knowledge of the great ideals and lofty philosophy of 563 1 | will then be known to be an idle tale. No quality or distinction 564 XII | beauty?~And who becomes an idol-worshipper~Unless God wills it?~In 565 1 | wish for Divine favour.~IDOLATERS mean men of the pure faith, 566 1 | substance and not the mirage, to ignore the allurement and illusion 567 1(3)| Jāmī's Lawa’ih, translated by E. H. Whinfield.~ 568 II | PART II~BEAUTY~ 569 III | PART III~THE SEA AND ITS PEARLS~ 570 XIV | not sober, neither am I ill or drunken.~Sometimes, like 571 VI | grasp the mysteries.~No mere illusions are the mystic's dreams,~ 572 VIII | delusions~That come from an illusory existence.~As your essence 573 1 | was athirst,~But I saw an image of Thee in the cup.~And 574 V | PHENOMENAL WORLD~THE world is an imaginary figure,~A diffused shadow 575 VII | have seen this vision and imbibed this cup,~But after all 576 1 | mysticism contains many impassioned love songs to the Absolute, 577 1 | Sūfīs realized that it is impossible in spatial terms to describe 578 1 | spiritual world." 1~The inability to describe to the uninitiated 579 I | No matter,~Day would increase and the night disappear.~ 580 Ackn | I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to Professor E. H. Whinfield, 581 | Indeed 582 1 | an exquisite poem by the Indian poet Tagore:~"I boasted 583 1 | the cheek is the point of indivisible Unity.~The TORCH is the 584 VII | dregs man rises to heaven.~Inebriated from the draught, the elements~ 585 VII | PART VII~DIVINE INEBRIATION~ 586 1 | since the soul itself, when inflamed with love for it, puts off 587 1(1)| Philosophy of Plotinus, by Dean Inge.~ 588 XIV | turn to thorns as you gaze.~Ingratitude is a sign of ignorance,~ 589 IX | PERFECT MAN~IN spite of his inheritance,~The perfect man is a slave~ 590 IV | time he first exists~As inorganic matter,~ ./. Next a breath 591 VI | millet-seed a world exists,~In an insect's wing is an ocean of life,~ ./. 592 1 | Earthly love seems worthless, insipid, and dull, compared to his 593 1 | amongst themselves. For instance:~EMBRACES and KISSES are 594 | instead 595 1 | shines out with a clear intensity, a beautiful luminous brightness.~ 596 VI | apply them in their right intent,~Remembering the attributes 597 VI | clear oceans;~If you look intently at each speck of dust,~In 598 Ackn | best thanks for his kind interest in my work, and for many 599 IV | INTERMINGLING~You are plurality transformed 600 XIII | state,~And passes on to interpretation.~. . . He who sees by illumination~ 601 IX | fellowship, the saint~Is intimate with the prophet,~And finding 602 XIV | THE EFFECT OF THE DRAUGHT~INTOXICATED from the pure draught~Which 603 1 | Ibrahim.~The Gulshan i Rāz was introduced into Europe by two travellers 604 1 | INTRODUCTION~LIFE OF SHABISTARĪ~"It is 605 V | both the visible and the invisible.~God most high, the Eternal 606 1 | LIFE OF SHABISTARĪ~"It is inward glow that makes the Sūfī, 607 II | delight and wonder~Can only issue from the One True Beauty,~ 608 I | The essence of existence issues from His ruby lip.~Hearts 609 IV | PART IV~THE JOURNEY~ 610 IX | PART IX~MAN: HIS CAPABILITIES AND 611 XII | the Eternal.~God's Spirit (Jesus),~Who proceeds from the 612 IV | fleshly elements,~Until you join your Father up on high.~ 613 1 | he, repenting, turns and journeys towards God; casting away 614 1 | between the soul and God, and just as a lover will dream of 615 V | Simurgh, and what is Mount Kaf?~What is Hades and what 616 Note | L. CRANMER-BYNG.~S. A. KAPADIA.~ 617 1 | that that which excites the keenest of longings is without any 618 XIV | of thine~Is an illusion, keeping thee back from Me.~To glance 619 IX | He receives the crown of Khalifate.~ ./. 620 IX | left.~East and west is His Kibla cast,~Drowned in a blaze 621 1 | The TORCH is the light kindled in the heart by the Beloved.~ 622 VII | Spirit-light,~So bright, it kindles sparks~In the heart.~Wine 623 XIII | them is born the threefold~Kingdom of Nature;~Minerals, then 624 IX | elements,~Then Nature's three kingdoms~Whose verses none can count.~ 625 II | alike bow down,~Saints and kings, dervishes and prophets,~ 626 IV | respond in a feeling of kinship~To this Light of the Truth,~ 627 IV | Yet may a stranger be your kinsman;~Even your fellow-travellers 628 1 | For instance:~EMBRACES and KISSES are raptures of love.~SLEEP 629 IX | desire,~For on the day he kneaded the clay,~He wrote on your 630 XII | idol-worship,~If the Mussulman only knew;~ ./. But he sees in idols~ 631 I | Reason's caravan~And with knots binding it tight.~Never 632 XII | THE mark of service~Is the knotted girdle.~So gird your loins, 633 XII | prayers,~And reading the Koran,~The heathen becomes not 634 I | frowns the wide world is laid waste,~But is restored every 635 1 | from Hammer's edition and Lajihi's notes, by Mr. Whinfield 636 VII | concealed from none.~Wine is the lamp-shade,~And torch the lamp;~Beauty 637 XIII | perishes, he dies again;~And lastly at the separation of soul 638 | Later 639 IX | I" AND "you" are but the lattices,~In the niches of a lamp,~ 640 XIV | name,~"O Allah, grant me a 'Lauded' end." 1~ 641 1(3)| Jāmī's Lawa’ih, translated by E. H. 642 1 | romances, the stories of Laylā and Majnūm, Yūsuf and Zulaikā, 643 I | down is as green meadows~Leading to the mansion of Eternal 644 XIV | Light which is manifest~Leads all hearts captive,~Now 645 IX | by time.~By practice man learns a trade,~By habit he collects 646 IV | the beginning. Till he is led away~From darkness and sin.~ 647 1 | know but One."~FLORENCE LEDERER.~ 648 | less 649 1 | poetry for the first time are liable to be amazed, perhaps even 650 XII | purification from self,~And liberty from bondage.~There is a 651 1 | found in several European libraries.~In 1821 Dr. Tholuck, of 652 VII | sounds~Of the mystic song~Lies a precious mystery.~From 653 IX | Between heaven and earth;~Lift this veil and you will see~ 654 IV | Whose high branches are lifted up to heaven;~Then from 655 III | pearls;~The soul in a swift lightning's flash~Bears to the listening 656 XIV | In it the tongues of the lilies are all singing,~And the 657 XIII | one part~Moves from the limit of its place.~Each atom, 658 IX | fires;~For all phenomenal limitations will be removed.~You who 659 VII | a mirage.~The desert is limitless and endless,~For no man 660 IX | ten thousand~Transcending limits and reckonings.~ 661 1 | face,~Are the lovers who linger in the sanctuary." ~"If 662 1 | perfumed attar from them lingers on through the ages?~The 663 I | kiss.~We would give up our lives with despair at His frown,~ 664 IX | will strike the earth,~And lo! it vanishes.~Only the Truth 665 I | in wantonness~Shake His locks from off His face.~Behold 666 Note | of the great ideals and lofty philosophy of Oriental thought 667 XII | knotted girdle.~So gird your loins, like a valiant man~With 668 1 | eyes,~Save when upon some lone lost wanderer's sight~Its 669 VII | tavern-haunter is desolate in a lonely desert,~Where he sees the 670 IX | veil and you will see~No longer the bond of sects and creeds.~ 671 1 | which excites the keenest of longings is without any form, even 672 1 | phenomenal world. Reason looking at the Light of Lights is 673 XIII | CONTINUALLY dwelling in all mystic lore,~Continually singing the 674 VII | dance of joy in the Beloved,~Losing head and foot like the revolving 675 1 | disappears.~Every instant the Loved One assumes a new garment, 676 II | Can so allure us with its loveliness.~Perchance we see in this, 677 XIII | places as He wills.~Minerals, low in the dust, plants standing 678 1 | with the Truth.~When man's lower self is dead, the real self 679 1 | clear intensity, a beautiful luminous brightness.~They are in 680 II | Nor is it all desire and lust that tempts men's hearts 681 III | BEING~IN Being's silver sea~Lustrous pearls of knowledge are 682 XIV | drunken.~ ./. Devotees go mad for love of Him~And become 683 I | lovers understand,~And they, maddened by its beauty,~Are held 684 1 | through which a frenzied~camel madly plunges, of a reed torn 685 1 | sanctuary." ~"If we are called madmen or drunkards,~’Tis because 686 IX | dervish~And bind on the Magian girdle.~Be a believer, be 687 1 | which was forbidden by Mahomet to his followers, was used 688 1 | the stories of Laylā and Majnūm, Yūsuf and Zulaikā, Salāmān 689 VII | TORCH, AND BEAUTY~TRUTH'S manifestations~Are wine, torch, and beauty;~ 690 1 | will in the next world be manifested in spiritual bodies; each 691 XII | like a valiant man~With manliness.~Cast aside vain tales,~ 692 IV | side,~But when he is grown manly~He goes forth with his father.~ ./. 693 VI | Compare them in a right manner,~And refrain from the wrong 694 I | green meadows~Leading to the mansion of Eternal Life.~The blackness 695 XII | THE GIRDLE~THE mark of service~Is the knotted 696 XII | Dream not of lights,~Of marvels, of miracles,~For your miracles 697 1 | moaning dove who has lost her mate, the snow melting in the 698 I | world the down is as green meadows~Leading to the mansion of 699 I | kiss.~. . . When the world meditates on His eye and His lip,~ 700 XIV | by one strain of sweet melody,~Burns the harvests of a 701 XIV | s eyes~Till your doubts melt away.~You will see tradition, 702 1 | lost her mate, the snow melting in the desert and mounting 703 1 | my comrades.~And I never mentioned Thee in joy or sorrow~But 704 IX | UNKNOWABLE~PONDER on God's mercies,~But not on His essence.~ 705 XIV | you remember me, breathe "Mercy be upon him."~I am ending 706 IV | man~Leaves the part and merges in the Whole.~ ./. 707 IX | narrow path of Truth,~On the Meridian line, He stands upright,~ 708 III | listening ear voices and messages~From the shells of knowledge;~ 709 VI | hundred harvests,~Within a millet-seed a world exists,~In an insect' 710 1 | means religious ecstasy, MIRTH the joy in the love of the 711 1 | because there are veils and mists separating the soul from 712 1 | light of the candle, the moaning dove who has lost her mate, 713 1 | briefly touched in rare moments of ecstasy and rapture.~ 714 I | waves,~Sometimes a shining moonbeam like His face,~Sometimes 715 V | When you wake up on the morn of the last day~You will 716 I | Making now night, making now morning,~Playing with the seasons 717 IV | Leave it for a season. Like Moses~Cast away that staff~And 718 XIV | been glorified by His lips,~Mosques have become shining by His 719 1 | love with the rose, the moth fluttering round the light 720 1 | themselves headlong.~Rūmī sings:~"Moths, burnt by the torch of the 721 IV | living~And from God draws his motive powers.~Next the Truth makes 722 1 | the depths of mud that is moulded and baked,~Then he appeared 723 V | is Simurgh, and what is Mount Kaf?~What is Hades and what 724 1 | melting in the desert and mounting as vapour to the sky, of 725 XIII | circling too,~Remember they all move in one direction,~From east 726 | Mr 727 | much 728 III | pearls~That hold strange murmuring voices,~Gems of devotion, 729 1 | a flute whose plaintive music fills the eyes with tears. 1~ 730 1 | the One Light shining in myriad forms through the whole 731 1 | by a Sūfī doctor of Herat named Dmir Syad Hosaini.~Very 732 XIV | singing,~And the eyes of the narcissus behold all, far and near.~ 733 Note | neither despises nor fears the nations of another creed and colour.~ 734 1 | I am lost to all things:~Naught remains but a forced expression."~ 735 I | will say "Yea," His lip "Nay."~He finished the creation 736 1 | of pure spirits which is nearest to Divinity.~The MOLE on 737 1 | SECRET ROSE GARDEN~It is nearly seven hundred years since 738 IX | your own existence.~For by nearness to Him~You become far from 739 VII | the world of bliss,~With necks exalted as racers,~Or with 740 IV | the whip,~So you will not need to fear~When on your journey 741 IV | FEAR~As the Arab racer needs not the whip,~So you will 742 1 | And Jāmī declares:~"In neighbour, friend, companion, Him 743 XII | blessed portal of unity,~The nest of the Eternal.~God's Spirit ( 744 VII | where the bird of the soul nests,~The rest-house that has 745 I | As a spider spreads its nets to ensnare,~So does the 746 IX | but the lattices,~In the niches of a lamp,~Through which 747 1 | Sūfīs; we hear songs of: the nightingale in love with the rose, the 748 VI | drop of water resembles the Nile,~In the heart of a barley-corn 749 V | Listening to the echo of strange noises.~ 750 VI | mirror of Not-Being,~For non-existence, being opposite Reality,~ 751 Note | EDITORIAL NOTE~ ./. THE object of the Editors 752 1 | Hammer's edition and Lajihi's notes, by Mr. Whinfield in 1880.~ 753 IX | existence entirely,~For it is nought but weeds and refuse,~Go, 754 V | perfection.~There are many numbers, but only One is counted.~ ./. 755 VI | of the senses.~. . . As a nurse to an infant,~So is the 756 VIII | dry husk that covers the nut,~Not the kernel concealed 757 Note | EDITORIAL NOTE~ ./. THE object of the Editors of this series 758 1 | direct and distinct, not the oblique view which is the vision 759 XIII | DEATH~DEATH occurs to man in three ways:~First 760 VII | home.~One from the dregs' odour becomes a philosopher,~One 761 XIV | this wine,~Tasteless and odourless,~Wash away the writing~On 762 Ackn | Captain L. Cranmer-Byng I offer my best thanks for his kind 763 | often 764 IV | dream,~An absolute illusion.~Omit not the duties~Of the law 765 VII | but still his mouth stays open.~ 766 I | golden chain.~I spoke too openly of that graceful form,~But 767 1 | rushed to meet~Love's welcome order, for the voice was sweet."~ 768 1 | downward journey must keep the ordinary laws and creeds of men.~ ~ 769 1 | Hafiz, though he has not the originality of Rūmī or in style cannot 770 1 | concealed. No doubt this was originally done to keep secret their 771 I | water,~So is the down the ornament of the soul.~ 772 | others 773 | Ours 774 XIV | for love of Him~And become outcasts from house and home,~He 775 XIII | a day and a night~Heaven outspans your circuits, O dervish!~ ./. 776 1 | earnestness of purpose, he perhaps outweighs them all. He gives us a 777 IX | the sage.~ ./. He is not over-cunning or a fool,~His appetites 778 III | sea of ’Uman, the pearl oysters~Rise to the surface from 779 1(1)| Nicholson's Mystics of Islam, p. 117.~ 780 V | But exists as a shadowy pageant or a play.~All is pervaded 781 XIII | acquired pleasure without pain?~Who, in attaining all his 782 1 | assigned to Him a form.~Being pantheists, they probably believed 783 II | Perfection there is no other partner.~Nor is it all desire and 784 1 | has told us in a beautiful passage that a~"We must not be surprised 785 XIII | reminiscence of a former state,~And passes on to interpretation.~. . . 786 1 | Good and Evil.~He makes a passionate appeal to humanity to seek 787 IX | creatures are its signs and pauses.~The first verse is "Universal 788 1 | in Sūfī poetry there is a peculiar richness, a depth, a colour 789 1 | sat conversing with any people~But Thou wert the subject 790 I | to men.~His eye does not perceive this visible world,~Yet 791 VIII | soul and body~Whereby he perceives hidden mysteries.~And like 792 1 | grace of form, and what perfumed attar from them lingers 793 1 | where, midst the delicate perfumes of an Oriental garden, the 794 XIII | nature;~Then, when his will perishes, he dies again;~And lastly 795 IX | You fancy this world is permanent of itself~And endures because 796 Ackn | R. A. Nicholson for kind permission to quote from his works 797 IX | as a sword blade,~Which permits no lingering~Or turning 798 1 | the Beloved is essentially personal, though there is nothing 799 V | pageant or a play.~All is pervaded by Absolute Being~In its 800 V | varied forms you see are but phantoms of your fancy,~And by revolving 801 IX | ANNIHILATION OF PHENOMENA~THE heavens and the stars~ 802 VI | suns are concealed.~If you pierce the heart of a single drop 803 XII | Pondering on religion and piety,~Teachership and discipleship?~ 804 IX | the One.~. . . When his pilgrimage is over~He receives the 805 IV | JOURNEY~THE journey of the pilgrims is two steps and no more:~ 806 IV | remain dejected,~Who so pitiable as you?~You, who are a man, 807 XIII | animals,~Waiting in their places as He wills.~Minerals, low 808 1 | elegance of Jāmī, yet in plainness and directness of speech, 809 1 | made into a flute whose plaintive music fills the eyes with 810 XIII | through desire?~Why are the planets revolving,~Above or beneath 811 VIII | For when your actions were planned,~Before your existence,~ 812 III | rain, dew, and mud,~Then plant, animal, and perfect man;~ 813 I | night, making now morning,~Playing with the seasons in wonder.~ 814 XIII | world~Who ever once acquired pleasure without pain?~Who, in attaining 815 1 | in the secret paths and plucking the scented~blossoms to 816 I | His face.~Behold His hands plundering Reason's caravan~And with 817 1 | which a frenzied~camel madly plunges, of a reed torn from its 818 III | And dainty shells bring poems in their curving forms~To 819 1 | exquisite poem by the Indian poet Tagore:~"I boasted among 820 VIII | he is under control.~Oh! poor soul, he seems free, yet 821 XII | of the soul,~The blessed portal of unity,~The nest of the 822 XIII | defection?~Why do they change position,~Place, circuit, colour, 823 I | wind on his clay.~And I too possess an ensample;~I cannot wait 824 XIII | beginning and never ending;~Each possessing self-knowledge, and so~Hurrying 825 1 | annihilation of the self) it is possible for man to discern the light 826 VII | pure wine from goblets,~Pour down the dregs on the world;~ 827 1 | with God, at the same time pouring out~in love-songs and praise 828 VII | drunken and amazed,~In utter poverty we shall be rich and free.~ 829 IX | become ripe by time.~By practice man learns a trade,~By habit 830 XI | GAMBLE OF THE SELF~REAL prayer can only be yours~When you 831 VII | Of the mystic song~Lies a precious mystery.~From drinking one 832 VIII | Truth.~Therefore is man predestined, before his existence,~To 833 XIII | their natural passions,~Preserving, continuing their races 834 VI | But if you know them not,~Pretend not you understand like 835 XII | infidelity becomes revealed~With pretended faith becomes disgusted.~ 836 VIII | heritage,~Be adorned with the principle of all virtues.~ 837 XIII | THE HEAVENS~LET not the prison of nature detain you,~But 838 1 | Being pantheists, they probably believed that He was the 839 XII | God's Spirit (Jesus),~Who proceeds from the blessed Spirit,~ 840 IX | THE LAST~THE two worlds produced the soul of Adam,~Which, 841 V | THE UNREAL~THE imagination produces phenomenal objects~Which 842 IX | far from yourself.~What profit is there to you~In your 843 XIII | logic only,~And seeks to prove the necessary,~Is bewildered 844 VI | heaven is concealed in the pupil of an eye,~The core in the 845 1 | published by Von Hammer Purgstall in Berlin and Vienna.~The 846 XII | desire of Christianity~Is purification from self,~And liberty from 847 1 | vivid colouring of Truth and Purity. But it is in the centre 848 1 | inflamed with love for it, puts off all the form which it 849 1 | known to be an idle tale. No quality or distinction will remain 850 1 | Rose Garden, as a reply to questions put forth by a Sūfī doctor 851 V | fancy,~And by revolving quickly in a circle~Appear as one.~ 852 VII | moment when ourselves we quit,~When fallen in the dust, 853 I | world,~Yet often His lip quivers with compassion.~ ./. Sometimes 854 Ackn | Nicholson for kind permission to quote from his works on Sūfiism, 855 1(2)| Gitanjali, by Rabindranath Tagore.~ 856 IV | FEAR~As the Arab racer needs not the whip,~So you 857 VII | bliss,~With necks exalted as racers,~Or with blackened faces 858 XIII | Preserving, continuing their races and species.~All, bowing 859 IX | cast,~Drowned in a blaze of radiant light.~Hail, O Light of 860 1 | Him we see,~In beggar's rags or robes of royalty,~In 861 III | Which falls again in raindrops~Into the mouths of the shells~( 862 XIII | the wool-carder, you will raise a cry.~Oh! take the cotton 863 VII | wine-dregs,~And have given as ransom~Pilgrim's staff and cruse,~ 864 1 | EMBRACES and KISSES are raptures of love.~SLEEP is contemplation, 865 1 | he has briefly touched in rare moments of ecstasy and rapture.~ 866 1 | rises in a different shape, ravishes the soul and disappears.~ 867 IV | stage his steps~Till he reaches his goal the Perfect.~Thus 868 1 | Whinfield in 1880.~SŪFĪ POETRY~Readers of Sūfī poetry for the first 869 IX | Has been vouchsafed~Reads therein and understands.~ 870 1 | shining in the heart, and who realises the love of God in the soul, 871 1 | none but He." 3~The Sūfīs realized that it is impossible in 872 IX | because of its own nature,~But really it is a ray of light from 873 IX | his pilgrimage is over~He receives the crown of Khalifate.~ ./. 874 IX | Transcending limits and reckonings.~ 875 1 | certain words began to have a recognized meaning amongst themselves. 876 VII | the wall,~Sometimes with reddened faces tied to the stake.~ 877 VII | astounded,~Universal Soul is reduced to servitude.~Drink wine! 878 1 | camel madly plunges, of a reed torn from its bed and made 879 VI | them in a right manner,~And refrain from the wrong comparisons.~ 880 IX | is nought but weeds and refuse,~Go, clear out your heart' 881 IV | the law to them,~But have regard to yourself.~. . . Abandon 882 VI | face.~For Beauty absolute reigns over all.~. . . When the 883 VIII | and my soul the rider,~The reins of the body are in the hands 884 1 | atoms are ever longing to rejoin their source.~The journey 885 VII | wine's colour becomes a relater,~One from half a draught 886 IV | Not-being~Must cast aside all relationships.~What are father and mother,~ 887 XII | this blessed Spirit.~Find release from humanity's carnal desire~ 888 XII | and small?~Pondering on religion and piety,~Teachership and 889 XIII | attaining all his desires,~Has remained at his height of perfection?~ 890 1 | whole universe, One essence remaining the same.~"Every moment 891 XIII | enters the mind,~It is a reminiscence of a former state,~And passes 892 IX | phenomenal limitations will be removed.~You who are pure from earthly 893 IX | Cultivate faith and sincerity,~Renew your belief every instant~ 894 IX | REFLECTED FORMS OF HABIT~REPEAT an action several times~ 895 XII | Being.~By counting beads, repeating prayers,~And reading the 896 1 | be amazed, perhaps even repelled, by the extravagant language, 897 1 | will shine on him, and he, repenting, turns and journeys towards 898 1 | Secret Rose Garden, as a reply to questions put forth by 899 VI | vainly talk.~To comprehend requires revelations or great faith.~ 900 VI | In name a drop of water resembles the Nile,~In the heart of 901 1 | with my breath.~And I never resolved to drink water, when I was 902 IX | AND THE SAINT~THE prophet, resplendent in his perfection,~Is as 903 IV | proof,~Then will his heart respond in a feeling of kinship~ 904 VII | bird of the soul nests,~The rest-house that has no existence~In 905 XIII | man is ever moving,~Never resting for a moment.~Perchance 906 I | world is laid waste,~But is restored every moment by His kiss.~ 907 IV | returning no more.~But another retains the husk,~Though shining 908 IV | And he will turn back and retrace his steps~From whence he 909 IV | darkness and sin.~He now retraces stage by stage his steps~ 910 1 | this Divine union. He must return to this world of unreality, 911 IV | bursts the husk,~And departs, returning no more.~But another retains 912 IX | comes forth,~And to which it returns,~With praises unending.~ 913 I | this world,~His down will reveal hidden paths.~ ./. Imagine 914 VII | by a ray from his face,~Reveals the bubbles of form,~Such 915 Note | Oriental thought may help to a revival of that true spirit of Charity 916 I | Now and then the soul is revived by a kiss.~We would give 917 XIII | ON CREATION~THE heavens revolve day and night~Like a potter' 918 1 | are a circuit. He who has revolved round this circuit is a 919 XIII | drawn;~Every point as it revolves in a circle~Is now a circle, 920 IX | FUTURE REWARD~PONDER here and now on His 921 VII | utter poverty we shall be rich and free.~Of what use then 922 VIII | the Truth you will find riches.~ 923 1 | poetry there is a peculiar richness, a depth, a colour which 924 V | has passed away;~Then you, rid of self, fly upwards~And 925 VIII | the horse and my soul the rider,~The reins of the body are 926 II | array into confusion;~Now riding the steed of comeliness,~ 927 II | man,~Who has attained the rightful balance,~Becoming aware 928 IX | dispositions~As fruits become ripe by time.~By practice man 929 VIII | Yet must the husk exist~To ripen the kernel.~So from learning 930 IV | divinely illumined,~The kernel ripens, bursts the husk,~And departs, 931 1 | called Hakk ul Yakin and Risala i Shadīd.~ ./. We learn 932 VII | Dentifrice and rosary.~Sometimes rising to the world of bliss,~With 933 V | you have called a flowing river-stream.~I am alone in a wide desert,~ 934 1 | same.~"Every moment the robber Beauty rises in a different 935 IX | Cast off the blue-patched robe~Of the dervish~And bind 936 1 | see,~In beggar's rags or robes of royalty,~In Union's cell 937 V | a ray shines on the hard rock~Like wool of many colours, 938 1 | abounds in allegories and love romances, the stories of Laylā and 939 VII | entrance to that mystic room.~I know not what will happen 940 VII | Beyond dreaming of secret rooms, of lights and miracles.~ 941 I | the point of Unity has one root only.~. . . I wonder if 942 VII | and cruse,~Dentifrice and rosary.~Sometimes rising to the 943 1 | beggar's rags or robes of royalty,~In Union's cell or in distraction 944 VI | comparisons.~Now that these rules are understood~I will show 945 1 | heard entranced; my spirit rushed to meet~Love's welcome order, 946 XIII | west like a water wheel,~Rushing on without food or sleep.~ 947 1 | not the religious habit."~SA’D UD DIN MAHMŪD SHABISTARĪ 948 1 | SHABISTARĪ~I have already said that little is known of 949 IX | the saint, concealing his saintship,~Is as the subdued light 950 1 | who, long ago for love's sake, planted this Rose-tree, 951 1 | Majnūm, Yūsuf and Zulaikā, Salāmān and Absāl, in which it is 952 XII | placed a soul,~Which is a sample of this blessed Spirit.~ 953 1 | and my dream.~And I never sat conversing with any people~ 954 XIII | together,~Angels with demons, Satan with the archangel.~All 955 VII | dregs on the world;~From the scent of these dregs man rises 956 1 | lest the profane should scoff. But as time went on certain 957 IV | and hard.~Leave it for a season. Like Moses~Cast away that 958 IX | Universal Reason,"~The second "Universal Soul," the "verse 959 IX | see~No longer the bond of sects and creeds.~When "I" and " 960 XIII | ending;~Each possessing self-knowledge, and so~Hurrying towards 961 VII | WHAT is pure wine?~It is self-purification.~What sweetness! what intoxication! 962 VII | drunkard is better than the self-satisfied.~The whole world is his 963 XIV | sought~Name and fame;~This self-seeking of thine~Is an illusion, 964 VI | unseen,~The objects of the senses.~. . . As a nurse to an 965 VI | words~They seem to denote sensual objects.~But as there is 966 1 | there are veils and mists separating the soul from God.~This 967 XIII | which are below the heavens~Serve in their appointed place~ 968 XII | THE GIRDLE~THE mark of service~Is the knotted girdle.~So 969 VII | Universal Soul is reduced to servitude.~Drink wine! for the bowl 970 1 | MAHMŪD SHABISTARĪ was born at Shabistar, near Tabriz, about A.D. 971 1 | Hakk ul Yakin and Risala i Shadīd.~ ./. We learn he had a 972 1 | between man and woman is a shadowed picture of the love between 973 1 | favourite disciple called Shaikh Ibrahim.~The Gulshan i Rāz 974 I | the Beloved in wantonness~Shake His locks from off His face.~ 975 I | world~If he could see the shaking aside~Of those black curls,~ 976 XIV | My soul was darkened with shame~To remember my lost life,~ 977 1 | Beauty rises in a different shape, ravishes the soul and disappears.~ 978 VIII | of slavery,~In having no share of Free-will.~Of himself 979 IX | bottomless abyss,~Fine and sharp as a sword blade,~Which 980 1 | he is able to distinguish sharply between the conflicting 981 IX | FAR" AND "NEAR"~IF He sheds His Light on you,~You become 982 III | sea of Being less by one sheer drop.~ 983 III | opened,~Behold the royal shimmering pearls!~ 984 I | place.~Suppose they were shorn. . . . No matter,~Day would 985 XIV | of that world-adorner~Was shown unveiled before mine eyes;~ 986 1 | mystic city which~"Mystery shrouds . . . now from mortal eyes,~ 987 XIV | its true light.~I heaved a sigh of wonder~When I saw that 988 IX | different creatures are its signs and pauses.~The first verse 989 V | substance?~ ./. What is Simurgh, and what is Mount Kaf?~ 990 IV | led away~From darkness and sin.~He now retraces stage by 991 IX | servant,~Cultivate faith and sincerity,~Renew your belief every 992 XIV | as the cupbearer.~What a singer is He who, by one strain 993 III | hundred bonds,~And the shells sink back again~Into the ocean' 994 1 | the wine of holier love to sip."~Mahmūd's vision of Reality 995 VII | to and fro;~The angels, sipping pure wine from goblets,~ 996 IV | What are father and mother,~Sister and brother?~Your very son 997 VII | souls,~From grasping the skirts of drunkards,~They have 998 VIII | honour of man consists of slavery,~In having no share of Free-will.~ 999 XIV | woke me from my sleep~Of slothful ignorance.~The secret chamber 1000 VII | lying drunken through the smell of the wine-dregs,~And have