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Hazrat Shah Abdul Qudus Qudusi.
With your sleeve
You conceal
Your countenance
In pretence as
You make an
Appearance
Appear Thee
Before all sundry
Yourself personally
At Play.
Viewing Your own
Scintillating Self
In every mirror (display)
Hinting at the
Mirror – appear
Thee in self-display
In spring appear
Thee in the
Garden as a flower
Then appear Thee
In the warbling
Of the Bulbul (nightingale?)
From where emerges
The ecstatic cry of
Mansur Halaj
From where appear
His stake
Yourself you utter/cry/call
We are the Truth/Lord
Yourself are
On the Stake!
Qudusi the
Beseecher says/has said
Himself He is
Betwixt the
Mortal and the Immortal!
Captive is He…
At liberty is He…
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