SUFI Poems of Sultan BaHU

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SUFI POEMS OF SULTAN BAHU FROM THE ABYAAT-E-BAAHOO

 

The soul has come to lodge in this body --

a desolate wilderness,

a rapidly crumbling bank of the river of time.

It will collapse -- tomorrow, if not today.

Lodged on the edge of such a shore,

how can a traveller sleep in peace?

For where sand and water meet,

no embankment can hold, O Bahu.

 

 

I offer my prayer in the temple of my heart --

the only true place to worship Allah.

I stand in supplication, I bow in obeisance,

I tender my prayer without break in its repetition.

Hanging between life and death

my heart burns in the fire of separation from Him.

The path indicated by the Prophet is true, O Bahu:

following it one can find Allah.

 

 

My Master has planted in my heart

the jasmine of Allah's Name.

Both my denial that the Creation is real

and my embracing of God, the only Reality,

have nourished the seedling down to its core.

When the buds of Mystery unfolded

into the blossoms of Revelation,

my entire being was filled with God's fragrance.

May the perfect Master

who planted this jasmine in my heart

be ever blessed, O Bahu!

 

 

Lovers remain completely intoxicated

in the ecstasy of their love for the Beloved.

They offer their souls to the Beloved

while still living

and thus immortalize themselves

in this life and the hereafter.

 

 

-- Sultan Bahu from the book "Sultan Bahu,"

J.R. Puri and K.S. Khak,

Radha Soami Satsang Beas Books

 

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