Let us die when we are not dying so that we shall not die again. |
Better live the good life here on earth | |
If faith and religion are what you need. | |
Your work will not end there tomorrow | |
Unless it is finished here today. | |
At one glance, the two worlds are joined in a single flame; | |
For the upright, today and tomorrow are the same. |
Whoever falls in love with you | |
Will achieve everlasting life | |
And will spend all his days and nights | |
Wallowing in his love for you. |
We fell in love, we are lovers; | |
We are loved, we are the loved ones. | |
Each moment we get born anew: | |
No one could grow weary of us. |
Ever since Yunus fell in love with you | |
His soul is full of beauty and joy; | |
Living a lovely new life all the time, | |
He has escaped the ravages of age. |
Many people say to Yunus: | |
"You have become old, let love loose." | |
Time never pays love a visit, | |
Months and years are not part of it. | |
Look deep into me with divine wisdom | |
Until I become visible to you: | |
Because before I appeared in this shape | |
I had a hundred thousand forms. |
Before Adam was created, | ||
Before the soul entered the mold, | Before Satan found damnation, | |
My tomorrow is today: this is when the might of God appeared. |
O, friends and lovers and brethren, | |
Go ahead, ask where I had been; | |
Since you want to know, I'll shed light: | |
I was in the eternal land. |
For a long time I was a star in the sky | |
Desired by all the heavenly angels. |
That was a time of such great bliss: | |
There was neither grief nor sadness, | |
My heart had no worry or care; | |
In this world I have no place of my own, <;/td> | |
My way station and my halting place are there. | |
I am the sovereign, my crown and throne, | |
My robe and horse of Paradise are there. |
For certain a person who has no friends in this world is destitute. |
The world get-filled with all the joys of love; | |
That is why those who love beam with a smile. | |
If a f lower blooms without love, it wilts; | |
It is only with love that life has bliss. | |
My soul has stirred with your fragrance | |
Yearning to abandon this earth. | |
I know nothing about your place: | |
How and where can I seek you out? |
They bring tidings of you always, | |
Yet nobody can find your trace. | |
Take the veil away from your face: | |
Let me burn with your beauty. | |
So many people are in a bad way because of poverty; | |
Some are wealthy, but their heart are never free of anxiety. | |
What dies is the body; souls cannot die. |
True faith is in the head, not in the headgear. |
Leave aside all other words, turn on yourself your vision; | |
Be sure to confront your own self with your own transgression. |
I bear malice against no one, | |
Even strangers are friends of mine. |
I would not call him a lover | |
The man who craves God's Paradise. | |
Paradise is only a trap | |
To catch the souls o f foolish men. |
When love arrives, all needs and flaws are gone. |
With love we used to yearn for it: | |
Then we discovered that Spirit; | |
With this face, He took this body, | |
And like a tunic, he wore it. | |
Yunus, you are not separate: | |
You and the Spirit aren't apart. | |
If you can't find Him in your heart, | |
Then where can you find that Spirit? | |
If the Lord has made you cry, He will make you laugh again. | |
Yunus bears tidings: | |
those who hear the news revel in joy. |
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