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6
571-580

  • How shall I flee (from Thee), since without Thee none liveth, and without Thy lordship no slave hath existence?
  • Take my life, O Source of my life, for without Thee I have become weary of my life.
  • I am in love with the art of madness, I am surfeited with wisdom and sagacity.
  • When (the veil of) shame is rent asunder, I will publicly declare the mystery: how much (more) of this self-restraint and griping pain and tremor?
  • I have become concealed in shame, like the fringe (sewn on the inside of a garment): I will spring forth of a sudden from beneath this coverlet. 575
  • O comrades, the Beloved has barred the ways: we are lame deer and He a hunting lion.
  • (For one who is) in the clutch of a fierce bloodthirsty lion where is any resource except resignation and acquiescence?
  • He, like the sun, hath neither sleep nor food: He makes the spirits (also) to be without food and sleep,
  • Saying, “Come, be Me or one with Me in nature, that thou mayest behold My Face when I unveil Myself.
  • And if thou hadst not beheld it, how shouldst thou have become so distraught? Thou wert earth, (and now) thou hast become one who seeks to be quickened (with spiritual life).” 580