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Jami - If You, Oh God, whom we scarcely know to address
Identifier
015139
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Translatin by By Raficq Abdulla
A description of the experience
If You, Oh God, whom we scarcely know to address,
Whose spirit is spread throughout the universe, shall
By chance see fit to dress our bodies and minds so we
May for an infinite moment be delivered into ecstatic
Oneness before a sacred place which reflects your rare light;Not until Your beauty too is reflected on Laila’s face
Does Majnun grow mad with longing to merge and retrace
His soul with hers, nor do Shirin’s eyes work their celebration
On suitors for her represented love–the flow of desire between
Lover and the Beloved grows into shape only by Your energy
Enlaced in face and form, which Beauty makes and veils
Your shapeless shape and draws from it boundless strength;