Leave the Familiar for Awhile
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
Khwaja Shams ad-Din Muhammad Hafizh ash-Shirazi (q.s.) wrote:
“Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and
bodies stretch out
Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadow and
shores and hills.
Open up to the Roof.
Make a new watermark on
your excitement
And love.
Like a blooming night
flower,
Bestow your vital
fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate
assembly.
Change rooms in your mind
for a day.
All the hemispheres in
existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.
Greet Yourself
In your thousand other
forms
As you mount the hidden
tide and travel
Back home.
All the hemispheres in
heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting
While stitching
themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.”
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