Love
Be drunk! Be drunk on the wine of love and passion,
Translated from Uzbek · Original text
Be drunk! Be drunk on the wine of love and passion,Do not fear the dread-filled eyes of death at all.Be the last fiery breath upon a martyr’s lips,Cross the rivers of sorrow joyful, cross them glad!O fiery love! O flame of passion,O stranger to the bodies with frozen hearts!O you whose seven thousand veins are mingled with the spheres,O wanderer who could not fit in the seven earths and heavens!O spirit of the cry left among soulless bodies,O Buraq of the Throne, whose force has blinded eyes!O angelic majesty of the Prophet’s rapture,O you who were nurtured upon the Preserved Tablet from eternity!Which eye is worthy for you to reveal yourself,Which heart is fit for you to burn and blaze within?!In a universe like a ring, beset by calamities,If you do, you will set out for the desert of annihilation!Close your eyes! Do not look upon the faces of traitors,Never lend your ear to false sighs and moans!Do not please the lackeys of Satan, never please them,Disdain forever the table of Iblis!Do not stay in the clutches of the base, rise toward the Truth,To unveil things to the ignorant is waste, a waste of secrets.The doubting heart of the blind knows nothing of faith —Love seeks the Simurgh, and its abode is Mount Qaf.Be drunk! Be drunk on the wine of love and passion,Go far from the clever who seek pleasure in reason and spite.If you would be anything, be truthful, be a lover, love’s devotee,Look, a lamp is shining in the chandelier of the Throne.The place where your first step falls will be a peak for someone,Why do you speak of the heavens you have roamed, O you?The eyes of the one who came seeking you will fill with emptiness,While you are in nonbeing, or in a broken reed flute, O you!Akrom MALIK
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