SHAH JO RISALO-HOPE-2

Chapter-III
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Let your eyes an offering be
For Loved-one ere you break your fast;
Sumptuous dishes seventy
You'll get by seeing Loved-ones face.
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If my eyes at rise for other
Sight than the Beloved care-
From their sockets I will tear
My eyes as morsels for the crows.
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Facial phenomena lists
Do not try to see with those,
Longing gaping with those eyes
Never Loved-ones features shows-
Only when both eyes you close
The Beloved you will see. Asa-V (Hope) Shah-jo-Risalo
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Dwell in mine eyes Beloved fair
That I can close them now;
No one may ever see you there
And I nought else shall see.
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Acquire eyes that able are
to visualize Beloved's face;
Not then at any other gaze
Loved-ones are very sensitive.
25
About dead Elephant amongst
the blind arose parley-
They handled it all over, but
Blind eyes could nought convey-
Decisive word can say-
The 'seers' only can display
The genuine truth of things. Asa-V (Hope) Shah-jo-Risalo
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The sense of wonder doth not dwell
Within the vulgar mind-
Secret of Love to trace and find
Is no task for the blind.
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For whom so anxiously we pine,
We ourselves are those;
O doubt, be gone with all your woes
For Loved-ones we have found.
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Eyes weep and yet rejoice each day
to look and to adore-
The more they see loved-ones, the more
drunk they with love do get.
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The more I prohibited eyes
to look, the more they longed;
They crossed the sleeping world, to find
loved-one at any price-
They killed me ah...but in this wise
peace for themselves secured. Asa-V (Hope) Shah-jo-Risalo
30
Relationship with the 'visible',
In no case do desire-
Why not you for the real enquire
and set out, seeking that?
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Hear, and take note, that you yourself
are 'barrier', and what is
Between the union and its bliss
Is nothing but yourself.
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The love wants that love's secret
alone his own shall be;-
But eyes that flow continuously
and sinking heart;...betray.
Chapter-IV
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Corrupt ones can corrupt, whose love
Is very weak, indeed
But whom love has consumed, succeed
they can't for he the vile one slew. Asa-V (Hope) Shah-jo-Risalo
34
When praying, think not of yourself,
Or prayers are in vain;
All thinking of yourself restrain
Drop self, and then do pray.-
35
You profess to be a 'faithful'
Holy maxims you recite...
But your heart deceit is hiding
Duality-satanic spite-
Faithful outward, you delight
in idolat 'rise inside.
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Seek not the form of one that your
'Beloved' you do call,
As conversation not at all
can happen face to face.
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Converse you hold when cross you are
Can never loved-one reach
Some mischief monger longs to mar
your heart, and spoil your love. Asa-V (Hope) Shah-jo-Risalo
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For to be cross is not the way;
two stones, can they unite?
'tis love that doth the cosmos sway
through love alone it lives.
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Each claims to be on right path here;
But I have lost myself-
Desiring and acquiring are
So very, very near-
I set my mind on distant sphere
where 'yes' and 'no' are not.
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Demerits world decries, loved-one
at so-called merits cross would be
My deeds, I mentioned with my tongue
now all undone in dust I see.
Then I discounted all my deeds,
which once I thought were charity,
An embassage I sent of shame;
Regrets and deep humanity,
But oh...my love made up with me
only when 'I' had disappeared. Asa-V (Hope) Shah-jo-Risalo
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Whose body is a rosary,
the mind a bead, a harp the heart.
Love-strings are playing there the theme
of unity in every part;
The nerves do chant: "There's none like thee;
the 'One' and only one thou art.-
E'en sleeping beauty they impart,
their very sleep their worship is!