A Qasida of Ibrahim Tusi
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Dec. 27th, 2015 07:53 pmLayla by Shaykh Ahmad al-Alawi
Dec. 12th, 2015 12:58 pm
With My Beloved
Dec. 10th, 2015 10:47 amWith my Beloved I alone have been,
When secrets tenderer than evening airs
Passed, and the Vision blest
Was granted to my prayers,
That crowned me, else obscure, with endless fame;
The while amazed between
His Beauty and His Majesty
I stood in silent ecstasy
Revealing that which o'er my spirit went and came.
Lo, in His face commingled
Is every charm and grace;
The whole of Beauty singled
Into a perfect face
Beholding Him would cry,
'There is no God but He, and He is the most High.'
Rabia al Basri
In My Soul
Dec. 9th, 2015 06:11 pmThe song's lyrics are based on a poem from Rabia al-Basri, a very famous centuries old Sufi poet.
In My Soul,
by Rabia al Basri
In
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church
where I kneel.
Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist.
Is there not a region of love where the sovereignty is
illumined nothing,
where ecstasy gets poured into itself
and becomes
lost,
where the wing is fully alive
but has no mind or
body?
In
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque,'
a church
that dissolve, that
dissolve in
God.