I would, so overflowing is my love for Him

Remember him perpetually, yet my remembrance—

How wondrous—  is vanished into ecstasy

And still yet more wondrous, even ecstasy,

With memory’s self, in nearness, farness vanished is

-Abu’l Husayn an-Nuri

               أريد دوام الذكر من فرط حبّه

فيا عجبا من غيبة الذكر في الوجد

                و أعجب منه غيبة الوجد تارة

و غيبة عين الذكر في القرب و البعد

ابو الحسين النوري-

 

Ibn al-Farid:

Increase me in love for you, and wonder

and have mercy on a heart, scorched mad by your love

And if I ask to really see you

Be generous and let not your answer be, “thou shalt not see“

O heart, you promised me that you’d be patient in loving them

Take heed and avoid anguish and anxiety

Verily, Life is love, so die in love

and it’s your right to die in love, forgiven

Tell those before me, and those behind

And whoever witnessed my sorrow:

Learn from me and my example, and hear me

And tell mankind the story of my love

Alone with my Love I have been:

A secret subtler than the wind’s lightest breath,

Whenon the night it steals, between us passed;

He granted to my gaze a longed-for sight

Whence I, till then unknown, illustrious am

Between His Beauty and His Majesty

I marvelled, and my state of marvelling

Was like an eloquent tongue that spake of me.

Turn then thy looks unto His countenance,

To find the whole of beauty lineate there.

All beauty, if it gathered were and made

One perfect form, beholding Him, would say:

There is no god but God; God is greater.

 

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