الفصل
الثانی عشر فی لزوم العشق و تأثیره
اعلم ایها الممتحن بالعشق! که عشق تخم
فعل قدیمست در زمین دل به آب صفای صفت بر لذت اسرار آورده، و عروق جان جان
در شغاف قلب اصلی از صوافی صفت
به وسایط فعل آب خورده.
This
tree, rooted deep within the mud of Adam, branches out towards
the sky of Qidam (
Infinitely
Ancient Realm of Actualities free of Potentialities):
14:24 …whose root is firmly fixed, and its branches (reach) to the
heavens…
Always to bear, for the Anfās (pl. Nafs, Selves) of the lovers, the
fruits of intimacy, Mahab-bat (
Divine
Love), pleasures and wisdom, so that the warriors of the hearts and
the royal horsemen of the battlefields of Unseen i.e. the Salik (
Voyager)
find comfort and solace
:
14:25 It brings forth its fruit at all times, by the leave of
its Lord.
Dara: For the detailed discussion and visualization of this tree
please see:
http://www.untiredwithloving.org/suyuti_fathul_jalil.html#laf_nashr
این شجر بیخ مهر در گل آدم دارد،
و سر سوی آسمان قدم دارد.
«اصلها ثابت، و فرعها فی السماء». همیشه بردهد، و در حرکات
انفاس عشاق ثمرهای الفت و محبت و لذت و حکمت دهد، تا بدان بیاسایند.
مبارزان قلوب وشهسواران میدان
غیوب
«تُؤتی اُکُلها کلَّ حین باذن ربها».
The lost heart is
Allah's
candle,
firmly placed within the
candleholder
of Surat (
Constraints
to shape and form) affected by the senses and (human) nature. The
sanctified spirit the light of that candleholder, (perpetually) faces
the Qidam (
Infinitely
Ancient Realm of actualities) while getting its light from the
suns of Azal (
Sempiternity,
East) and rays of Abadiyat (Eternities, West). And the reality of the
the real light (
Nur)
by intervention of the transient-nature (Hadath), gets its absence from
the lamps of wisdom.
The lost heart: Why has the
humanity been placed upon a tiny planet, in a large galaxy, and that
galaxy placed within millions of others? Answer: Because each human
being carries within the most precious instrument every engineered by
Allah i.e. the
human heart! There are no records of were we have come from, the only
record is kept within the see of
Ishq
and it only grows from the mud of Adam. This marvel of Divine
Engineering had to be hidden, like a treasure in depth of cosmos, away
from snatching of the thieves.
gets its absence from the lamps of
wisdom: Had the Nur (
Divine
Light) not been occluded there would have been no carnal nature to
the human being i.e. we could not be mammals, we could not have eaten,
suffer or comfort, sorrow or frolic, no basic human behaviour could
have been possible. Moreover, we could not have evanesced, since our
Kamal (
Perfection)
comes only from the throes of entanglement with the carnal nature, and
for that purpose we had to be marooned here:
55:26. All upon her (Earth) evanescing
كُلُّ مَنْ عَلَيْهَا فَانٍ
دل گم شده شمع خدایست،
که در لگن صورت به تأثیر حواس و طبیعت محکم است. روح قدسی نور آن شمع دان
«یضیء و لولم تمسسه نار». لگن محاذی قبلۀ قدمست، از شموس
ازلیات و انوار ابدیات نور گیرد، و حقیقت نور حقیقی بوسایط حدثان از
قنادیل حکمت غیبی پذیرد.
The reign of Ishq (
Unrestrained
Unary Love), indeed a joyous fortune, is the Divine Affection.
However within the censer of human spirit/life Ishq is ablaze because
of the human being himself! The tailor of wisdom tailors a gown, made
from the light of Divine Attributes, fitted for that chameleon (Ishq);
sometimes the beloved of the Azal (
Sempiternity)
might appear within the human love, by means of the Tajalli (
Lucent
Manifestation) of Jalal (Momentous Glory and Power) thoroughly
spiritual.
sometimes the beloved of the Azal
(Sempiternity) might appear within the human love: There is one
love! All of it from
Allah! But it
is like a chameleon changing colours and patterns, to confuse our Nafs
that we are loving someone other than Allah.
سلطان عشق را مفرح دولت مهر الهیست،
لیکن در مجمرۀ جان انسی از روی انسان سوزد، وخیاط حکمت آن جان بوقلمون را
جلباب نور صفت دوزد. گاه گاه در زمان عشق معشوق ازل در عشق انسانی برآید
به تجلی جلال از کل روحانی.
You can never understand how perplexing
this tale is! After uncovering of the Divine Essence of
Allah via the
Zuhur (Emergence) through the Divine Fa'l (Deeds), (
Ishq)
dressed itself by the skin of transience (Hadath) as that of Ala' (
Divine Gifts)
and blessings, thus exhibiting presenting itself to the Arif (Divine
Cognoscente); such that (Ishq) could walk (the human being) from
transience (Hadath) into the essence of Qidam (
Infinitely
Ancient Realm of actualities); since human being (by means of Ishq)
can commence the motion (towards Qidam) from transience (Hadath) of
this temporal world, while Qidam guides Ishq (and thus human being)
towards Qidam.
(Ishq) dressed itself by the skin of
transience (Hadath) as that of Ala' (Divine Gifts) and blessings:
One particular example of
Ishq
dressed as a Divine Gift is the cell subdivision in our bodies. Indeed
each cell divides and makes an almost identical copy of 'itself' as if
in love with itself! And within this cell and any other cell in the
body, all the genome of the person is copied regardless of the location
or the function of the cell. Again indicating a unary self-love of
itself.
After uncovering of the Divine Essence
of Allah via the Zuhur (Emergence) through the Divine Fa'l (Deeds):
To us we do not see or feel the cell division, but we can see and sense
its EMERGENCE i.e. limbs and organs each functioning in an orchestral
manner.
while Qidam guides Ishq (and thus
human being) towards Qidam: Only Ishq can return you to
the
Qidam.
تو ندانی که این حدیث چه بوالعجب
نامه ایست،
تا بعد از کشف عین الله در ظهور فعل خود را به رسم آلاء و نعماء در پوست
حدثان به عارفان نماید، تا از راه حدث در عین قدم آورد، زیرا که برتبت حدث
از منزل حدث حرکت نماید. اگر چه
قدم او را به قدم رساند،
The wage-takers of the heavens of Divine Secrets i.e. Salik (
Voyager)
who travel in hope of gaining spiritually, distressed and carefree
(Free of Tajalliyat (
Lucent
Manifestations)) and incapable of glide towards
Allah, live on
the subsistence made from the beauty and goodness of human being, since
human being is the ladder towards the sky of Azal (
Sempiternity).
Fret not O beautiful one! The censer burning the (incense) of Fa'l-Khas
(Highly Particularized Divine Actions) is really you! And the Wine (
Divine
Love or Knowledge) of observing the
Qidam poured
within the cleansed goblet of your soul.
This hidden Sufi because of Tauhid (
Divine Oneness)
is marooned in this abandoned place, thus in rueful throes of trials of
Your (
Allah)
Ishq.
Within the noble powerhouse of :
12:86 He (Jacob) said: "I only complain of my distraction and anguish
to
Allah
Awaiting the Divine Beauty of the Joseph of the Well.
Poem
For within this candle there is Nur (
Divine
Light)
The wage takers: Every Salik or
Murid voyages in return for a gain! Like a worker working in hope of a
wage.
مزدوران
افلاک آسمان اسرار در شور لاابالی بریاحین حسن انسان بیاسایند، زیرا که
نردبان پایۀ آسمان ازلست. بد خوئی مکن. ای ترک رعنا! چون مجمرۀ عود فعل
خاص در روی تست، و شراب الفت شاهد قدم در قدح جان پاک تست. این صوفی مستور
از صرف توحید در این منزل مهجور است، و در امتحان عشق تو رنجورست. در عزت
خانۀ «انما اشکو بثی و حزنی الی الله» منتظر جمال یوسف
جاهیست. مصرع:
زیرا که در آن شمع زمان نور الهیست.
You (Human) are the Qibla (Direction for
prayers) for all spirits, once you became worthy of That Divine
Beloved, hence a beloved yourself. Do not veil your soul against That
Divine Beloved, since soul cannot be without That Divine Beloved.
Soul, (expired) from the realm of spirits, in sufferance of Your (
Allah) Ishq (
Unrestrained
Unary Love), while posed to see the virgin brides [1] of de novo
Tajalliyat (
Lucent
Manifestations) midst the leaves of
roses in
meadows of Your (Allah)
Divine Face.
Your (
Allah)
creative Spirit, that creates all souls and lives, concealed within the
souls of Aulia' (Close Friends of Allah). Could you decipher this poem:
Since the soul is some trace of You (
Allah) and
sometimes you (human) trace of the soul
Has any eye ever seen the shape or the form of the soul?
Soul is Your (
Allah)
dust and the dust of Your (Allah) Path the souls of Aulia'
Therefore now the glitter of your (human) gems a trace for the
soul
You (Human) are the Qibla (Direction
for prayers) for all spirits: 2:34 And behold, We said to the
angels: "Bow down to Adam" and they bowed down
قبلۀ جان شدی، تا در خوردِ جانان، جانان
شدی. جان را از جانان مججوب جهان مدار، که جان بی جانان نتواند بود. جان
از عالم جان آسیب عشق تو دارد، تا در اوراق ورد صفت در باغ روی تو نو
عروسان تجلی مکشوف بیند. جان جان آفرینت در جان جان نهانست. تو بگو تا در
میان دو صفت این حدیث کدامست، بیت:
گه جان نشان تست و گهی تونشان جان گر هیچ دیده
صورت جان را اثر ندید
جان خاک تست وخاک ره تست جان جان
اینک بلعلهای تو پیدا نشان جان.
Sometimes, underneath the patched up
(Sufi) worn-gown of the friends (borrowed?), in meandering streets of
sorrows for You (
Allah),
my soliloquies within the Sirr (
Divine
Observatory) of Azal (
Sempiternity);
because of Your love singing songs boasting in presence of the singers
of elite/elect audience of Malakut (
Spiritual
Realm); and around the perimeters of humanity vaunting claims of
divine nature; and within the factory of Allah's Wisdom, in workshop of
humanity I am enrobing the silken unfinished robe of
Adam.
I am enrobing the silken unfinished
robe of Adam: Adam was made up of many 'patches' like a quilt,
he was part spiritual, part carnal, part combative, part peaceful, part
molecular, part psychological and so on. But his integration was
perfect. As quilted we are as Adam, we all suffer from imperfection,
hence the unfinished robe of Adam.
گه در تحت مرقع آشنایان در کوچهای غم
تو، در سرّ ازل مناجات کنم، و به رسم ترنم از روی عشقت با مغنیان مجلس خاص
ملکوت مباهات کنم، و رد دائرۀ انسانی دم ربانی زنم، و در کارخانۀ حكمت
خدائی در کارگاه انسانی ابریشم حلۀ نیم کار آدم تنم.
Sometimes, while yearning (Shauq), from the east, the Soul powders me
with the dust of the Path of That Divine Beloved. Often times due to
the Ghira-Jalali (Not allowing other than
Allah's
Momentous Presence) I hang (like a trophy) the carnal Nafs (
Self)
upon the gate of the Nafs-Nātiqa (Self that seeks knowledge no matter
within which universe[2]), since within the bazar of all things Divine
the animal proclivities of the human riff-rafts not
allowed.
گاه در زمان شوق از
شرق جان به خاک راه جانان مفرح آمیزدم. و گاه گاه از روی غیرت جلالی حق نفسِ روینده به درگه نفسِ گوینده بر آویزم،
تا در بازار ربانی آشوب اوباش
طبیعت انسانی نباشد.
Because the audience of the theatre of
Azal (
Sempiternity)
and the observing virgin brides of Abad (Eternity), turning their
chaste faces away from the livestock market of the Ghayb (Unseen)
towards the estranged ones, estranged from the carnality of nature,
while tumulting with the emotional disturbances of secrets of
Ishq
seeking the spirits (close to
Allah).
while tumulting with the emotional
disturbances of secrets of Ishq:
http://www.untiredwithloving.org/zaid.html
the estranged ones & seeking the
spirits (close to Allah): These are the spirits in Paradise
Allah endowed for human beings of wives and husbands and family
member-types to compensate them for what they did not have here or what
they lost here. In other words, those on the Path turn their faces away
from the temporary beloveds of this earth.
See Also: http://www.untiredwithloving.org/hur.htm
زیرا که مشهود سرای ازل و عرایس مشاهدۀ
ابد از نخاس خانۀ غیب روی عفت به بیگانگان طبیعت بنمایند، و از صاحبان دل
در تهیج اسرار عشق به کابین وصایف جنان قرب جانها خواهند.
The bird of
Divine Oneness
demands a ready-made nest from this penniless Murid (Seeker of the
Divine), so that the hawk of Fardania (Singled out essence of
Allah) to
settle within this spiritual nest, and by the beak of Nur (
Divine
Light) of Kibriya (Allah's Greatness) to snatch anything other than
Allah.
What an unthinkably bold and reckless eye I have, after all that I have
seen (of carnality of the human nature), then suddenly I see Hu (
IT)
within all these:
Once
Allah
chose you as a friend
Your reckless eyes shall see it all
See Also: http://www.untiredwithloving.org/Kamaal_fragranace_of_life.html
از این مرید بی
سرمایه مرغ وحدانیت آشیان جان بی زحمت خواهد، تا باز فردانی در آشیان جان
روحانی درآید، و به منقار نور کبریا هر چه جز خدا برباید. شوخ دیده ای
دارم، چون دیدم آنچه دیدم، و آنگاه او را در این بینم.
بیت
چون
خدایت به دوستی بگزید
چشم
شوخ تو دیدنی همه دید
[1] Virgin Brides has nothing to do with
untouched women or marriage, it is found often in the language of the
Arab to indicate something that occurs and never again e.g. a
particular blossom on a tree will never bloom again, and if there is
another blossom blooming of course it is another one. This verbiage
applied quite often by Sheikh Baqli to Divine Secrets, for they are
uncovered once for a human being, and another human being uncovers
another one specific to his or existence free of any repetition or
redundancy.