Yusuf (a.s.) & Sayyidah Zulaykha (q.s.)

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Mawlana Nur ad-Din ‘Abd ar-Rahman Muhammad Dashti Jami’ (q.s.), in his poem on Yusuf (a.s.) & Sayyidah Zulaykha (q.s.), wrote: 

“Blest is the lover whose soul has fraught

The zephyr of love with no selfish though;

Whose heart is so full of its darling, there

No room may be for a single hair;

Whose absolute love through each vein is spread,

In each drop of his blood, in each hair of his head;

Who forgets his own form and his features, knows

No love of friends and no hatred of foes;

Who bids farewell to the world, looks down

With scorn on ambition and thrown and crown.

If he utters a word, it’s to her that he speaks,

And would win for her only each thing that he seeks.

He recks not of self, in all he desires,

His love for his darling each thought inspires,

His former self he has thrown aside,

And each thought is ennobled and purified.

Rise, Jami, thou! A new life begin;

Seek the mansion eternal and enter in.

Thou knowest the way which thy feet should tread:

Ne’er the path of the sluggard to bliss hath led.

Quit self and this being forever: set

Thy feet no more in the worlding's net

Once thou wast not, and no loss was thine:

Now be rich forever, this life resign.

Seek not thy bliss in thy self : refrain

From the fruitless hope that will bring no gain.”