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Hazrat Bu Alishah Qalandar
If it was not
For Love and
The yearning
For Love
No one would
Have written
Such beautiful poetry
Or listened to
Beautiful words.
If there was no Love
None would have
Reached God Nor
Would have
The Most Beautiful One
Cast aside His veil.
Had He bestowed
The display of
His Vision
The adored One
Would have snatched
Away Life and Soul
Of His adoring ones!
If there had been
No breeze – who
Would have blown
Thru/Aside Your curls
To display the
Countenance of
The beloved
To the adoring ones.
What namaz/worship/prayer
Can I observe in
My ecstasy and rapture
In which there is no
Standing, bowing or
Prostration.
If your heart
Possess not the
Love of the One;
Comprehended you
Would not have the
Meaning of standing,
Bowing and prostrating!
O One Who has
Neither face nor form
No other Being is
Visible besides Thee.
O Bu Ali – you set
Aflame the two worlds
When the smoke( you )escapes your
(Release from )
Your burning heart
If the One bestowing
Wine – would throw open
The doors of
His Tavern
Free of his yearning
Pain would be
Every sober and sensible one.
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