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Whatever comes out of the heart is effective

It has no wings but has the power of flight

 

It has holy origins, it aims at elegance

It rises from dust, but has access to the celestial world

 

My love was seditious, rebellious and clever

My fearless wailing rent through the sky

 

On hearing it the sun said, “Somewhere there is somebody!â€

The planets said, “At the ‘Arsh-i-Barân there is somebody!â€

 

The moon was saying, “No, it is some inhabitant of the earth!â€

The milky way was saying, “Somebody is concealed just hereâ€!

 

If someone understood my Remonstrance Riîw«n did

He understood me as the Man turned out of the Paradise !

 

 

Even angels exclaimed in surprise “What could this voice be!

Unknown even to the ‘Arsh’s keepers what the secret could be!

 

Is the mankind’s reach really even to the ‘Arsh?

Has this pinch of dust also learned flight?

 

How ignorant of good manners the earth’s denizens are!

How bold and insolent these denizens of the low are!

 

Is he so insolent that even angry with God he is?

Is he the same Man who once worshipped by angels was ?

 

He is the knower of Kamm, and of the enigmas of Kaif

But, he is unacquainted with the secrets of modesty

 

Mankind are proud of the power of their rhetoric

These ignorant people are incapable of talkingâ€!

 

A voice came “Very pathetic is your story

Full of restless tears is your wine-measure

 

Your ecstatic clamor pervaded the celestial world

How bold in speech is your Loving heart !

 

You sweetened the Remonstrance with elegant graces

You established intercourse between God and His people

 

We are inclined to Mercy, but there is no one to implore

Whom can we show the way ? There is no wayfarer to the destination

 

Jewel polishing is common, but there is no proper jewel

There is no clay capable of being molded into Û’dam

 

We confer the glory of Kai on the deserving

We confer even a whole new world on those who search!

 

 

Arms are feeble, hearts are accustomed to apostasy

The ‘believers’ are a source of disgrace to the Prophet

 

Idol-breakers have departed, the rest are idol-makers

Though the father was Ibr«hâm the sons are ےzar

 

The wine-drinkers, the wine, even the decanters are new

The sanctuary of the Ka‘bah, the idols, even you are new

 

There was a time when this alone was the source of Beauty

The wild tulip was the pride of the season of spring

 

Whichever Muslim there was, the Lover of God he was

A while ago your beloved this very Unfaithful was

 

Make the covenant of fealty now with some local one

Make the Ummah of the Holy Prophet a local one!

 

How difficult for you is waking up at the dawn!

You have no Love for Us, sleep is dear to you

 

Ramaî«n’s restriction is irksome to your free nature

You tell us ! Is this the appropriate rule of fidelity?

 

A nation exists on the din, you cease to exist if the din does not exist

Without mutual attraction the assembly of stars does not exist

 

You are the ones who do not know any art in the world

You are the nation which does not care for its nest

 

You are the harvest which harbors the lightning

You are those who sell their ancestors’ graves

 

As you have earned a good name by selling graves

Will you not sell if idols of stone you get?

 

Who effaced false worship from the face of the world?

Who rescued the human race from slavery ?

 

Who adorned my Ka‘bah with their foreheads in Love?

Who put my Qur’«n to their breasts in reverence?

 

 

They were surely your ancestors, but what are you ?

Sitting in idleness, waiting for tomorrow are you !

 

What did you say? “For the Muslim is only the promise of houri

Even if the Remonstrance be unreasonable decorum is necessary

 

Justice is the Creator of Existence’ custom since eternity

When the infidel adopts Muslim ways he receives houris and palaces

 

Not a single one among you is longing for houris

The Effulgence of ٌër exists but there is no Mës«

 

The gain of this nation is one, also the loss is one

Only one is the prophet of all, dân is one, ¥m«n is one

 

The Holy £aram is one, God is one, Qur’an also is one

Would it have been very difficult for Muslims to be one

 

Sects abound somewhere and somewhere are castes!

Are these the ways to progress in the world?

 

Who is the renouncer of the laws of the Holy Prophet?

The criterion for whose actions is expediency of time ?

 

Who is enamored with the customs of the enemies

Whose thinking is disgusted with ancestors’ ways?

 

No warmth is in the heart, no feeling is in the soul

There is no respect for the message of Muéammad in you!

 

If some array themselves in mosques, it is the poor

If some endure the discomfort of fasting it is the poor

 

If some are reverent to Us it is the poor

If some hide your faults it is the poor

 

The rich in their arrogance of wealth are negligent of Us

The Millat-i-Baiîa is alive on the strength of the poor

 

That mature thinking of the nation’s preacher is gone

That natural lightning is gone, fiery speeches are gone

 

The ritual of adh«n has persisted, the spirit of Bil«l is gone

Philosophy has persisted, the teaching of Ghazalâ is gone

 

Mosques are lamenting that the reciters of prayers are gone

That is those with attributes of Lijaz’ people are gone

 

Clamor is that Muslims have disappeared from the world

We ask whether the Muslims were present anywhere?

 

In fashion you are Christians, in culture you are Hindus

Are these Muslims ! Who put the Jews to embarrassment!

 

Sure, you are even Saiyyid, Mirza and Afghan also

You are all these, say whether you are Musalmans also?

 

During speech the candor of the Muslim was fearless

His justice was strong, undefiled by consideration of bias

 

The tree of Muslim’s nature was watered with modesty

In valor he was an incomprehensible existence

 

Internal warmth was the essence of his wine’s quality

To empty itself was the custom of his decanter

 

Every Muslim was a lancet for the vein of infidelity

Activism was the polish to the mirror of his life

 

Whatever trust he had, on his own strength it was

You are afraid of death, he afraid of God alone was

 

If the art of the father not well-known to the son be

How can the son worthy of the heritage of the father be!

 

Everyone is intoxicated with the wine of indulgence

Are you Muslims? To you is this the way of Islam?

 

You have neither the faqr of Haidar nor the wealth of Uthman

What spiritual relation between you and your ancestors exists?

 

They were respected in the world by being Muslims

And you became disgraced by abandoning the Qur’an

 

You are indignant to each other, beneficent they were

You are guilty and prying into guilts, forgiving and merciful they were

 

Though everybody wants to reach the zenith of Thurayyah

Every body must first cultivate that kind of affable heart

 

The throne of Faghfër was theirs, the crown of Kai also

Is this all mere empty talk or you have that ardor also?

 

You are self-destructive, zealous and self-respecting they were

You flee from brotherhood, lovers and brotherhood they were

 

You are head to foot talk, action incarnate they were

You tantalize for flower-bud, with garden in their lap they were

 

Even now nations remember their story

Impressed on existence’s sheet is their fidelity!

 

Like stars on the nation’s horizon you appeared also

In the Indian idol’s love you became a Brahman also

 

In the love for flying you became separated from the nest also

Indolent were the youth already, became suspicious of dân also

 

They have been freed from every restraint by ‘civilization’

Having been brought from Ka‘bah, they have been settled in the temple

 

Qais may not continue enduring hardships of seclusion in the wilderness

May stroll in the city, may not remain wandering in wilderness

 

He is insane, he may or may not in the city remain

It is necessary the Lailah’s veil may not remain

 

Let there be no wailing against ‘tyranny’ or complaint of ‘injustice’

Love is free, why should not the Beauty be free also?

 

The new age is a lightning, consuming every barn is

Safe from this no wilderness and no rose-garden is

 

Of this new fire old nations are the fuel

The Ummah of the last Prophet is set afire

 

If the ¥man of Ibrahim is acquired even now

Fire can create the garden’s norm even now

 

The gardener should not be upset by seeing the garden’s state

Branches are about to appear from the bunches of buds

 

The garden will be cleared soon of the waste and trash

The red of the martyrs’ blood will be producing rose buds

 

Look a little the color of the sky somewhat red is

This the glowing of the horizon by the rising sun is!

 

Some nations in the existence’s garden benefited from their labors are

And some deprived of fruits and even destroyed by autumn are

 

Hundreds of trees deteriorated and hundreds flourishing are

Hundreds still even concealed in the bosom of the garden are

 

The tree of Islam a model of flourishing is

This the fruit of eons of gardening efforts is

 

 

Your skirt is undefiled by the dust of homeland

You are the Yësuf for whom every Egypt is Kan’an

 

It will never be possible to destroy your caravan

Nothing except the ‘Clarions’s Call’ are your chattel

 

You are a candle-like tree, in its flame’s smoke your roots are

Your thoughts free from the care of the end are

 

You will not be destroyed by the destruction of Iran

Wine’s ecstasy is not connected with its container

 

It is evident from the story of the invasion of Tatars

That Ka‘bah got protectors from the temple

 

You are the support of the boat of God in the world

The present age is night, you are a glimmering star

 

This tumult of Bulgaria’s invasion which is afoot

Is the message of awakening for the negligent

 

You think this is the plan for hurting your sentiments

This is a test of your sacrifice and your self respect

 

Why are you afraid of the hooves of the enemies’ horses ?

The enemies’ blows will be unable to extinguish the light of the Truth

 

Your potential is still hidden from the world’s nations

The assembly of existence still has need for you

 

The whole world is kept alive by your warmth

Your Khil«fah is the star of the possibility’s destiny

 

There is no time for leisure, there is work to be done

Completion of the light of Tawéâd is still to be done

 

Like fragrance you are contained in the flower-bud, become scattered

Become the chattel traveling on the wings of the breeze of the rose-garden

 

If you are poor, changed from speck to the wilderness be

From the melody of the wave changed to tumult of the storm be

 

With the Love’s power elevate every low to elegance

With Muéammad’s name illuminate the whole world

 

If there is no flower nightingale’s music should also not be

In the world’s garden smile of flower-buds should also not be

 

 

If there is no cup-bearer, wine, and decanter should also not be

Tawéâd’s assembly in the world and you should also not be

 

The system of the universe is stable by this very name

The existence’ pulse is warm with this very name

 

In the wilderness, on the mountain-side, in the plains it is

In the ocean, in the lap of the wave, in the storm it is

 

In China’s city, in Morocco’s desert it is

And concealed in the ¥m«n of the Muslim it is

 

The world’s eyes should witness this sight till eternity

The Elegance of the grandeur of “Rafa‘na Laka Zikrak†should see

 

The majority people, that is the non-white world

The world which would nurture your martyrs

 

The world reared by the sun, the crescent’s world

What the people of Love call the Bilal’s world

 

Is agitated like mercury by this name

Is diving in Light like the Beloved

 

Intellect is your shield, Love is your sword

My dervish ! Your viceregency is world-conquering

 

Your Takbâr like fire for Godlessness is

If you are Muslim your prudence your destiny is

 

If you are loyal to Muéammad we are yours

This universe is nothing the Tablet and the Pen are yours

 

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