Sa’d Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari The Secret Rose Garden Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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1001 IV | pure from self as fire from smoke.~Unfolded to him are a series 1002 1 | who has lost her mate, the snow melting in the desert and 1003 I | sometimes a heaven,~Sometimes soaring above the seventh heaven,~ 1004 XIV | exist or not,~But I am not sober, neither am I ill or drunken.~ 1005 IV | Sister and brother?~Your very son may be your enemy,~Yet may 1006 I | out of my breast.~. . . Sore troubled am I by that curl~ 1007 I | drunken.~His ruby lip gives soul-garments to men.~His eye does not 1008 VII | the material world and the soul-world,~Which appear as veils to 1009 VII | within the mere words and sounds~Of the mystic song~Lies 1010 XI | SELF~RISE above time and space,~Pass by the world, and 1011 VII | Spirit-light,~So bright, it kindles sparks~In the heart.~Wine and torch 1012 1 | that it is impossible in spatial terms to describe that which 1013 XIII | continuing their races and species.~All, bowing to their Master' 1014 VI | you look intently at each speck of dust,~In it you will 1015 1 | in his path, and he will spend his whole life in communion 1016 I | the night disappear.~As a spider spreads its nets to ensnare,~ 1017 VII | the lamp;~Beauty is the Spirit-light,~So bright, it kindles sparks~ 1018 1 | DOWN is the world of pure spirits which is nearest to Divinity.~ 1019 IX | THE PERFECT MAN~IN spite of his inheritance,~The 1020 IV | the path of the pilgrim~Spoils the kernel of his soul.~ 1021 IV | the kernel of an almond is spoilt utterly~If it is plucked 1022 I | night disappear.~As a spider spreads its nets to ensnare,~So 1023 IV | circuit.~From water and earth springs up into a tree,~Whose high 1024 VII | the wine-fumes' aroma,~Is staggering to and fro;~The angels, 1025 I | black mole,~And both are stagnant; for there is no escape~ 1026 VII | reddened faces tied to the stake.~Now in the mystic dance 1027 XI | only be yours~When you have staked and gambled yourself away~ 1028 Ackn | Whinfield, whose book, the standard translation of the Gulshan 1029 XIII | low in the dust, plants standing upright,~Animals, by their 1030 IX | On the Meridian line, He stands upright,~Throwing no shadow 1031 IV | on your journey you have started.~ ./. When purified are 1032 1 | The poem opens with the statement of the sole existence of 1033 II | confusion;~Now riding the steed of comeliness,~Now flourishing 1034 VIII | like the fire in flint and steel~When these are struck together,~ 1035 1 | and through the mystic stillness we seem to hear the voice 1036 VI | heart of a barley-corn is stored an hundred harvests,~Within 1037 1 | allegories and love romances, the stories of Laylā and Majnūm, Yūsuf 1038 I | IF you ask of me the long story~Of the Beloved's curl,~I 1039 IV | be your enemy,~Yet may a stranger be your kinsman;~Even your 1040 VII | remains giddy,~For ever straying from house and home.~One 1041 VI | MIRROR~YOUR eye has not strength enough~To gaze at the burning 1042 III | in their curving forms~To strew the beach with beauty.~Each 1043 IX | will disappear.~A wave will strike the earth,~And lo! it vanishes.~ 1044 III | ending.~. . . When a wave strikes it, the world vanishes;~ 1045 IX | garment of the body~Will be stripped. And the form left~Will 1046 VIII | of my brother, hearken,~Strive to gain knowledge of faith,~ 1047 VIII | and steel~When these are struck together,~The two worlds 1048 1 | originality of Rūmī or in style cannot compare with the 1049 IX | his saintship,~Is as the subdued light of the moon.~By fellowship, 1050 1 | this Rose-tree, echoing his sublime utterance:~"See but One, 1051 V | existence,~So this world has no substantial reality,~But exists as a 1052 1 | does not charm with the subtle fascination of Hafiz, though 1053 Ackn | for many helpful hints and suggestions.~ ./. 1054 IX | round.~Equipoise is the summit of perfection,~Becoming 1055 VI | In each atom a hundred suns are concealed.~If you pierce 1056 1 | bright vision in brilliant sunshine of Virtue and Vice, Reality 1057 I | were always in their place.~Suppose they were shorn. . . . No 1058 III | pearl oysters~Rise to the surface from the lowest depths,~ 1059 1 | passage that a~"We must not be surprised that that which excites 1060 II | dervishes and prophets,~Swayed by the charm of Beauty's 1061 IX | NECESSARY~IF there were no sweepers in the world~The world would 1062 VII | cup of the pure wine,~From sweeping the dust of dung-hills from 1063 1 | my mouth has eaten of His sweetmeats~In a clear vision I can 1064 VII | self-purification.~What sweetness! what intoxication! what 1065 III | hundred pearls;~The soul in a swift lightning's flash~Bears 1066 1 | doctor of Herat named Dmir Syad Hosaini.~Very little is 1067 1 | Him face to face."~SŪFĪ SYMBOLISM~In reading the enraptured 1068 XIV | the writing~On thy being's tablet."~ ./. 1069 1 | born at Shabistar, near Tabriz, about A.D. 1250.~He wrote 1070 III | this drop of sea-water~Has taken so many forms and names;~ 1071 1 | The One, and their love~takes the form of exquisite songs 1072 1 | then be known to be an idle tale. No quality or distinction 1073 VI | of truth does not vainly talk.~To comprehend requires 1074 IX | change or degree.~If the sun tarried always in one spot,~And 1075 1 | have one sole and simple task, to make~Their hearts a 1076 XIV | Saying, "With this wine,~Tasteless and odourless,~Wash away 1077 XII | from the blessed Spirit,~Taught this doctrine.~ ./. In you 1078 VII | world that has no form.~The tavern-haunter is desolate in a lonely 1079 VII | TAVERN-HAUNTERS~THE tavern is the abode 1080 XIV | infidel,~Disturbing the world.~Taverns have been glorified by His 1081 I | and unity.~His curl will teach you the knowledge of this 1082 XII | Pondering on religion and piety,~Teachership and discipleship?~Which 1083 I | breathlessly start working anew~To tear my heart out of my breast.~. . . 1084 1 | music fills the eyes with tears. 1~THE BELOVED~The Sūfīs' 1085 IX | and equity,~Courage and temperance,~Are the four qualities 1086 IX | is synagogue?~What is the Temple of Fire?~ 1087 IV | unfolds.~And now the world's temptations assail him.~. . . Anger 1088 II | all desire and lust that tempts men's hearts with longing.~. . . 1089 1 | is impossible in spatial terms to describe that which is 1090 XIV | those who know the truth are thankful.~When you remember me, breathe " 1091 Ackn | Cranmer-Byng I offer my best thanks for his kind interest in 1092 VII | frozen soul by its heat~Thaws and becomes living.~The 1093 I | THE CHEEK AND THE DOWN~THE theatre of Divine beauty is the 1094 1 | God."~Love is the Sūfīs' theme, Divine, Eternal Love, and 1095 1 | Absolute. Various are the love themes of the Sūfīs; we hear songs 1096 | therein 1097 IX | wondering about yourself,~Think of self no more,~For the 1098 IX | brightly shining lamp.~The third is the "Highest heavens,~ 1099 1 | singing her praises, and thirsting for a sight of her face, 1100 1 | European libraries.~In 1821 Dr. Tholuck, of Berlin, published extracts, 1101 XIV | Or the roses will turn to thorns as you gaze.~Ingratitude 1102 I | each hair of His cheek,~Thousands of oceans of mysteries;~ 1103 XIII | together.~From them is born the threefold~Kingdom of Nature;~Minerals, 1104 XIV | Inebriates two hundred threescore and ten!~Entering the Mosque 1105 1 | and into poetry it has thrown all its force and fire."~" 1106 IV | attraction of the Divine,~He throws away his selfhood utterly~ 1107 VII | Sometimes with reddened faces tied to the stake.~Now in the 1108 I | And with knots binding it tight.~Never at rest is that curl,~ 1109 I | hundred thousand hearts~Are tightly bound, not one escapes, 1110 IX | REPEAT an action several times~And you master it;~Habit 1111 V | Ours only is the present's tiny point.~Time is but a fancied 1112 I | changing?~ ./. Sometimes tired like His brilliant eye,~ 1113 1 | attributes are annihilated.~To-day I am lost to all things:~ 1114 IX | you may behold Him Himself to-morrow.~ ./. 1115 XIV | Untold before;~In it the tongues of the lilies are all singing,~ 1116 1 | madly plunges, of a reed torn from its bed and made into 1117 I | Sometimes He charms us with a touch of humanity,~And gives help 1118 1 | bliss which he has briefly touched in rare moments of ecstasy 1119 IX | By practice man learns a trade,~By habit he collects his 1120 XIV | melt away.~You will see tradition, earthly and mystical truths,~ 1121 VII | or mouth,~And are beyond traditions, visions, and states,~Beyond 1122 XI | TRANSCEND SELF~RISE above time and 1123 IX | After there are seven transcendent spheres,~The "chapter of 1124 IX | powers are ten thousand~Transcending limits and reckonings.~ 1125 XI | the Eternal,~Travelling, travel and traveller have become 1126 1 | introduced into Europe by two travellers in 1700. Later, copies of 1127 XI | man one with the Eternal,~Travelling, travel and traveller have 1128 XIII | bewildered and sometimes travels~Backward in a circle, or 1129 1 | beside the Gulshan i Rāz two treatises on Sūfiism called Hakk ul 1130 1 | of the Beloved.~CURLS and TRESSES mean plurality veiling the 1131 I | of my breast.~. . . Sore troubled am I by that curl~Which 1132 XIV | tradition, earthly and mystical truths,~All arranged clearly in 1133 VII | Or with blackened faces turned to the wall,~Sometimes with 1134 1 | wanderer's sight~Its diamond turrets like a day-dream rise."~ 1135 1 | not find ourselves in the twilight of a faintly-coloured land 1136 I | the path to it should be twisted~And crooked and difficult.~ ./. 1137 1 | is an illusion which is typified by considering the unreality 1138 1 | the religious habit."~SA’D UD DIN MAHMŪD SHABISTARĪ was 1139 1 | treatises on Sūfiism called Hakk ul Yakin and Risala i Shadīd.~ ./. 1140 III | KNOWLEDGE~IN the sea of ’Uman, the pearl oysters~Rise 1141 VIII | eyes sees double,~So is unable to see the unity of the 1142 IX | belief every instant~While unbelief dwells in your heart.~ ./. 1143 XIII | When the astrologer is an unbeliever,~He sees not that these 1144 IX | THE UNCHANGING LIGHT~You fancy this world 1145 XIII | yet moves,~ ./. Though unclothed, yet is clothed again,~Though 1146 1 | I am lost to myself and unconscious,~And my attributes are annihilated.~ 1147 Note | ambassadors of good-will and understanding between East and West -- 1148 IX | it returns,~With praises unending.~ 1149 1 | find a Rose-tree of glory unequalled, glowing with the blossoms 1150 IV | self as fire from smoke.~Unfolded to him are a series of revelations~ 1151 IV | discernment of the world unfolds.~And now the world's temptations 1152 XII | the idol.~Idol-worship is unification,~Since all things are the 1153 1 | inability to describe to the uninitiated the secret love of the mystic 1154 1 | bewitching state the union of unions. ~As He goes by, so all 1155 1 | stages: dying to self and uniting with the Truth.~When man' 1156 | Unless 1157 IV | plucked from its husk while unripe,~So error in the path of 1158 XIV | the mysteries of the heart~Untold before;~In it the tongues 1159 IX | self discarded,~He will unveil His beauty.~ ./. 1160 XIV | world-adorner~Was shown unveiled before mine eyes;~My soul 1161 V | transformed;~When the real sun unveils his face to you,~The moon, 1162 1 | the universe appear to him unworthy of exultation, grief, or 1163 I | hearts by a frown!~How He has uplifted our souls by a smile!~If 1164 V | Then you, rid of self, fly upwards~And are united to the Beloved.~ 1165 1 | Rose-tree, echoing his sublime utterance:~"See but One, say but One, 1166 V | PART V~TIME AND THIS DREAM-WORLD~ 1167 1 | fading into the past become vague and shadowy.~ ~The dispositions 1168 VI | a man of truth does not vainly talk.~To comprehend requires 1169 XII | gird your loins, like a valiant man~With manliness.~Cast 1170 XIV | Him by a hundred veils~Of vanity, conceit, and illusion.~ 1171 1 | the desert and mounting as vapour to the sky, of a dark night 1172 V | destroys both worlds.~. . . The varied forms you see are but phantoms 1173 IX | this light alters not nor varies~And is void of change or 1174 1 | for the voice was sweet."~Vaughan says:~"Oriental mysticism 1175 1 | and TRESSES mean plurality veiling the face of Unity from its 1176 V | The moon, the stars, and Venus will disappear;~If a ray 1177 XIII | Master's wisdom~Creates a new vessel. For all that exists~Comes 1178 VI | PART VI~REFLECTIONS~ 1179 1 | brilliant sunshine of Virtue and Vice, Reality and Illusion, Wisdom 1180 IX | form left~Will reflect your vices and virtues,~As objects 1181 1 | Purgstall in Berlin and Vienna.~The Gulshan i Rāz was translated 1182 VI | of Absolute Being~Can be viewed in this mirror of Not-Being,~ 1183 VII | becomes a philosopher,~One viewing the wine's colour becomes 1184 VII | PART VII~DIVINE INEBRIATION~ 1185 VIII | PART VIII~REASON AND FREE-WILL~ 1186 II | The language of the heart, virtuous living,~And the fair child 1187 XIV | THE VISIT~ONE day at the dawn~The 1188 1 | able to come I would have visited Thee,~Crawling on my face 1189 1 | everywhere, beautiful in their vivid colouring of Truth and Purity. 1190 Ackn | in compiling this little volume. I am grateful to Dr. R. 1191 1 | Persian text was published by Von Hammer Purgstall in Berlin 1192 IX | the Divine~ ./. Has been vouchsafed~Reads therein and understands.~ 1193 IX | consonants and accidents its vowels,~And different creatures 1194 VI | now are concealed lest the vulgar should profane.~Annihilation, 1195 IV | bird,~Then leave to the vultures this carrion world.~Forsake 1196 XIII | then plants and animals,~Waiting in their places as He wills.~ 1197 V | seeing is a mirage.~When you wake up on the morn of the last 1198 XIV | dawn,~He leaves there no wakeful man;~Entering the cloister 1199 1 | Crawling on my face or walking on my head."~When the Sūfī 1200 VII | blackened faces turned to the wall,~Sometimes with reddened 1201 1 | Illumination. Since then many have wandered there, lingering in the 1202 1 | when upon some lone lost wanderer's sight~Its diamond turrets 1203 XIII | Though at rest, yet is always wandering,~Never beginning and never 1204 I | So does the Beloved in wantonness~Shake His locks from off 1205 XIV | Tasteless and odourless,~Wash away the writing~On thy 1206 III | pearls of knowledge are washed up~On the shore of speech,~ 1207 XIV | remember my lost life,~My wasted days.~ 1208 VI | see its brilliant light~By watching its reflection~Mirrored 1209 IX | entirely,~For it is nought but weeds and refuse,~Go, clear out 1210 1 | spirit rushed to meet~Love's welcome order, for the voice was 1211 1 | should scoff. But as time went on certain words began to 1212 | whatever 1213 | Whereby 1214 | whether 1215 IV | Arab racer needs not the whip,~So you will not need to 1216 | whoever 1217 1 | believe in its existence.~But whosoever becomes aware of the Divine 1218 I | amber-scented curl~Was blown by the wind on his clay.~And I too possess 1219 VII | world is his tavern,~His wine-cup the heart of each atom,~ 1220 VII | through the smell of the wine-dregs,~And have given as ransom~ 1221 VII | The sky, dizzy from the wine-fumes' aroma,~Is staggering to 1222 1 | spiritual knowledge, and the WINE-SELLER means the spiritual guide.~ 1223 I | glance of that eye,~And a wine-shop lurks in each corner.~When 1224 XIV | idol entered my door~And woke me from my sleep~Of slothful 1225 1 | the love between man and woman is a shadowed picture of 1226 IV | Abandon gold and women,~For they are a source of 1227 IX | You, who day and night are wondering about yourself,~Think of 1228 VIII | appointed work.~. . . (Oh, wondrous ways of Thine, without how 1229 V | shines on the hard rock~Like wool of many colours, it drops 1230 XIII | have carded self~Like the wool-carder, you will raise a cry.~Oh! 1231 1 | followers, was used as a word-symbol by the Sūfīs to denote spiritual 1232 I | But breathlessly start working anew~To tear my heart out 1233 XIII | Comes from one hand, one workshop.~ ./. Why do the stars set?~ 1234 XIV | Yes, the face of that world-adorner~Was shown unveiled before 1235 IV | His nature becomes evil,~Worse than an animal or demon;~ 1236 1 | love-songs and praise all the worship and adoration of his soul.~" 1237 1 | nothing to show that they worshipped Him as a person, or assigned 1238 XII | miracles are contained~In worshipping the Truth;~All else is pride, 1239 XIV | My face for an instant~Is worth a thousand years of devotion."~ 1240 1 | sorrow.~Earthly love seems worthless, insipid, and dull, compared 1241 VIII | LEARNING is only the outer wrapping~Of the letter;~The dry husk 1242 IX | THE WRITTEN FAITH~READ the writing on 1243 VI | manner,~And refrain from the wrong comparisons.~Now that these 1244 IX | PART X~THE ONE~ 1245 XI | PART XI~THE SELF~ 1246 XII | PART XII~IDOLS, GIRDLES, AND CHRISTIANITY~ 1247 XIII | PART XIII~THOUGHTS~ 1248 XIV | PART XIV~THE LIGHT MANIFEST~ 1249 1 | on Sūfiism called Hakk ul Yakin and Risala i Shadīd.~ ./. 1250 I | embrace,~His eye will say "Yea," His lip "Nay."~He finished 1251 | Yes 1252 I | His eye and His lip,~It yields itself to the intoxication 1253 IV | INFANT AND THE YOUTH~THE young infant in the cradle~Stays 1254 1 | stories of Laylā and Majnūm, Yūsuf and Zulaikā, Salāmān and 1255 1 | Laylā and Majnūm, Yūsuf and Zulaikā, Salāmān and Absāl, in which