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On this blessed Night of Power, on Saturday July 19, 2014, Ramadan 23, 1435, let us strive to earn the Grace of our Lord and receive the Baraqah (blessings) to receive the Light and the Peace, Ameen, so we can know ourselves and know our Lord! This Maarifa – spiritual knowledge, gnosis, is the goal of every believer and we have a Living Guide to help us!

On the Night of Power, power belongs to us

So long as the form of the Beloved’s image is with us,
for us the whole of life is a joyful parade.

Where friends unite together, there in the midst of the house,
by Allah, is a spreading plain;

And where the heart’s desire comes true,
there one thorn is better than a thousand dates.

When we are sleeping at the head of the Beloved’s lane,
our pillow and blankets are the Pleiades;

When we are twisted into the tip of the Beloved’s tress
on the Night of Power*, power belongs to us.

When the reflection of His beauty shines forth,
mountain land and earth are silk and brocade.

When we ask of the breeze the scent of Him,
in the breeze is the echo of lute and reed-pipe.

When we write His name in the dust,
every particle of dust is a dark-eyed houri.

We chant a spell of Him over the fire;
thereby the raging fire becomes water-cool.

Why shall I tell a long tale? For when we mention
His name to non-being too, it increases being.

That subtlety in which Love is contained
is fuller of pith than a thousand walnuts.

That instant when Love showed its face,
all these things vanished from the midst.

Silence! For the sealing has been completed;
the totality of desire is God Most High.

* The Night of Power (see Koran 97:1) was the night (of Ramadan) on which the Koran was first revealed; see Nicholson on Math. II:2935.

Ghazal No. 364 from the Divan-e Shams-i Tabrizi,
translated by A.J. Arberry, “Mystical Poems of Rumi,” 1968.

 

 

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