Lock me out of Paradise.
But if I adore you for Yourself alone,
Do not deny to me Your eternal beauty.
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My peace, O my brothers and sisters, is my solitude,
For His love I can find no substitute,And His love is the test for me among mortal beings,Whenever His Beauty I may contemplate,He is my ‘mihrab’, towards Him is my ‘qiblah’If I die of love, before completing satisfaction,Alas, for my anxiety in the world, alas for my distress,O Healer (of souls) the heart feeds upon…
Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
My choicest hoursAre the hours I spend with You —O Allah, I can’t live in this worldWithout remembering You–How can I endure the next worldWithout seeing Your face?I am a stranger in Your countryAnd lonely among Your worshippers:This is the substance of my complaint.
Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting.
Of monsters in the ocean.You are the Just who knows no change,The Balance that can never swerve,The Eternal which never passes away.The doors of Kings are bolted now and guarded by soldiers.Your Door is open to all who call upon You.My Lord,Each love is now alone with his beloved.And I am alone with You.
O God, take away the words of the devil
If not, then take my prayer as it is, devil and all.
In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.
True description from the real taste.The one who tastes, knows;the one who explains, lies.How can you describe the true form of SomethingIn whose presence you are blotted out?And in whose being you still exist?And who lives as a sign for your journey?
I have loved Thee with two loves –
As for the love which is selfish,Therein I occupy myself with Thee,to the exclusion of all others.But in the love which is worthy of Thee,Thou dost raise the veil that I may see Thee.Yet is the praise not mine in this or that,But the praise is to Thee in both that and this.