The Pearly Hearts

Nami-danam chi manzil buud shab jaay ki man buudam;

Baharsu raqs-e bismil buud shab jaay ki man buudam.

Pari paikar nigaar-e sarw qadde laala rukhsare;

Sarapa aafat-e dil buud shab jaay ki man buudam.

I wonder what was the place where I was last night,

All around me were half-slaughtered victims of love,

tossing about in agony.

There was a nymph-like beloved with cypress-like form,

and tulip-like face,

Ruthlessly playing havoc with the hearts of the lovers.

Amir Khusro

This Marriage

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

May it be sweet milk,

this marriage, like wine and halvah.

May this marriage offer fruit and shade

like the date palm.

May this marriage be full of laughter,

our every day a day in paradise.

May this marriage be a sign of compassion,

a seal of happiness here and hereafter.

May this marriage have a fair face and a good name,

an omen as welcome

as the moon in a clear blue sky.

I am out of words to describe

how spirit mingles in this marriage.

Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

An Ode to Love

Whilst I was not born, I was there
There, in the dreams of my infant mother
And, You are too a Mother but a Mermaid
Who once sung in the salt Wave
So Young and so beautiful you are
And, like a dream I was there
Peeping from the eternal window of illusion
Cherished the figment of your imagination
You Dreamt but with open eyes love
Heart witnessed the love too get cursed
And it hurts too
Agonize not, despair not
I prayed, Someday you will bear me
Someday, I ll amuse yourself in your lap
And caress your lips too
The love will be superfluous sanctimonious
And the heaven will dance between We & Us
My Love, a dream is a dream
And My dream is a Love too.

Jaq

Wedding Night

The day I've died, my pall is moving on -
But do not think my heart is still on earth!
Don't weep and pity me: "Oh woe, how awful!"
You fall in devil's snare - woe, that is awful!
Don't cry "Woe, parted!" at my burial -
For me this is the time of joyful meeting!
Don't say "Farewell!" when I'm put in the grave -
A curtin is it for eternal bliss.
You saw "descending" - now look at the rising!
Is setting dangerous for sun and moon?
To you it looks like setting, but it's rising;
The coffin seems a jail, yet it means freedom.
Which seed fell in the earth that did not grow there?Why do you doubt the fate of human seed?What bucket came not filled from out the cistern?Why should the Yusaf "Soul" then fear this well?
Close here your mouth and open it on that side.
So that your hymns may sound in Where-no-place!


Rumi

Lost in Love

Peepin In the Past
Creeping in the past
Lost Lost lost Lost
In the cosmo so vast

Peepin In the Past
Memories of My past
Lost Lost Lost Lost
Infinite hopes that last

Peepin in the Past
Mask that I cast
Lost Lost Lost Lost
Everything I Lost

Lost Lost Lost Lost
In The Love of My god
I m so Lost Lost Lost
In the love of My Lord.

Jaq

Dead Of Night

In the dead of night, a Sufi began to weep.He said, "This world is like a closed coffin, in which We are shut and in which, through our ignorance,We spend our lives in folly and desolation.When Death comes to open the lid of the coffin,Each one who has wings will fly off to Eternity,But those without will remain locked in the coffin.So, my friends, before the lid of this coffin is taken off,Do all you can to become a bird of the Way to God;Do all you can to develop your wings and your feathers."

Attar

A Daughter's Entreaty

Dear dad….My Dear dad….find me a man who possess a heart of a woman…then only he can understand the feeling of your beloved daughter….coz the heart of a man is selfish and the woman is selfless.
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Dear dad …discover me a man …who can love the soul of your daughter and not her body….coz the body is made by you and the soul by Almighty creator….my body will perish one day but my soul is eternal and it will sustain till eternity.
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Dear dad….bring out a guy for me….who loves music and not money….coz the man goes empty handed from this world and the music lovers lives forever….and I want to live with him forever and ever.
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Dear dad….search me a guy….who is having an eye which can see the time beyond future….coz someday I can turn blind in love, I can become blind in materialist life…..but the eyes he’ll give me can make me see this life as diaphanous.
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Dear dad….my dear dad….explore a man for your daughter…who can explore the one hidden inside in her….because she is like a sea shell....and the one inside it is still want to be explored.
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Dear dad….O’ father of me.…Hunt a man for me….who loves me as you do….coz when I was child and wept, you made me laugh….and I want someone who enacts me like you after you have gone.
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Dear dad….my beloved dad….find me a man who can inherit my thoughts in my children, as I m a reflection of you….you have inherited me your thoughts… taught me the ethics n probity….now the time has come who can take you, your thoughts and your reflection to future and to timelessness.
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Dear dad….brave dad….bestow the braveheart to me who can sacrifice himself to defend me….and if I die someday....he sit on the headstone of my grave and shed tears in remorse of my death till the final reunion.

Jaq