Translation – Divan Shams

Thou art my King, Thou art my King To my heart and soul faith Thou shalt bring With Thy loving breath infuse me with life…

O heart let go of your soul Until you see the soul maker Leave behind this deceptive faker So you reach your real goal. Unless…

I was dead, became alive Was tearful, laughingly thrive With love survive, my only drive I have become eternal. My eyes no longer seek Am…

Alas that beautiful beloved Alas that beautiful beloved where hence? Alas that graceful Goddess where hence? In our midst like a candle brightly shone Where…

We today from strangers cannot divide So drunk that we don’t know where we reside. In this love, we departed our very mind Madness and…

O God, give the players sweetness and weal And for the tabbla, give them hands of steel. For their love, they sacrifice every limb Of…

I need a lover and a friend All friendships you transcend And impotent I remain You are Noah and the Ark You are the light…

Beloved reached desired glow And so we say, may it be so All doubts towards faith did grow And so we say, may it be…

Those to Mecca on pilgrimage When reached their destined stage Saw a home made out of stone Amidst the desert carnage. In that house they…

Once again my beloved sought me and found Joyously in the marketplace sought me and found. I hid myself, at my feet that drunken rose,…

I knocked on heart’s door, for heart I crave Came, “who knocks?” I said, “heart’s slave!” The bright beams of love shone through the door’s…

Alas that now from our midst you are gone In spite of the pain you resist, you are gone Once the circle of friends you…