Abhar Al-'Ashiqin (The Daffodil of the Lovers)
Baqli Shirazi



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Chapter 12
The Necessity for Ishq (Unrestrained Unary Love) And its Effects


Know O the one tested by Ishq (Unrestrained Unary Love), that Ishq is the seed of the Qidam (Infinitely Ancient Realm of actualities free of potentialities)! 

(Ishq) Within the earth of the heart, watered by the purest of the Divine Attributes, made (the owner) to enjoy the observation of the Divine Secrets.

And the roots of the Aulia' (Close Friends of Allah), (sprouted by Ishq), within the spiritual heart, drank from the purest of the Divine Attributes by means of the Divine Fa'l (Deeds).

Dara: Today we know that there was no water on this planet and Allah placed water upon this earth. We also know that there were no trees or vegetation or animals and Allah placed them upon this earth as well. The one might ask a serious question: Why did Allah place love upon this planet? Life could have gone on without it! And more than often it brings so much emotional havoc into our lives, and if so why love was sent to this earth? Answer: To voyage back to where the human being had originated from! There is no way to return to our place of origin i.e. Qidam, without love! But this voyage is not in the form of a vessel upon the waters or spacecraft within the cosmos, this voyage is botanical, like a seed upon the earth here sprouting and turning into a tree, traversing universes, from the roots here to the branches stretched in Qidam our place of origin. The seed for this tree is Ishq (Unrestrained Unary Love).

الفصل الثانی عشر فی لزوم العشق و تأثیره
اعلم ایها الممتحن بالعشق! که عشق تخم فعل قدیمست در زمین دل به آب صفای صفت بر لذت اسرار آورده، و عروق جان جان در شغاف قلب اصلی از صوافی صفت به وسایط فعل آب خورده.


This tree, rooted deep within the mud of Adam, branches out towards the sky of Qidam (Infinitely Ancient Realm of Actualities free of Potentialities):

14:24 …whose root is firmly fixed, and its branches (reach) to the heavens…

Always to bear, for the Anfās (pl. Nafs, Selves) of the lovers, the fruits of intimacy, Mahab-bat (Divine Love), pleasures and wisdom, so that the warriors of the hearts and the royal horsemen of the battlefields of Unseen i.e. the Salik (Voyager) find comfort and solace:


14:25 It brings forth its fruit at all times, by the leave of its Lord.


Dara: For the detailed discussion and visualization of this tree please see:
http://www.untiredwithloving.org/suyuti_fathul_jalil.html#laf_nashr 


 این شجر بیخ مهر در گل آدم دارد، و سر سوی آسمان قدم دارد. «اصلها ثابت، و فرعها فی السماء». همیشه بردهد، و در حرکات انفاس عشاق ثمرهای الفت و محبت و لذت و حکمت دهد، تا بدان بیاسایند. مبارزان قلوب وشهسواران میدان غیوب «تُؤتی اُکُلها کلَّ حین باذن ربها».


The lost heart is Allah's candle, firmly placed within the candleholder of Surat (Constraints to shape and form) affected by the senses and (human) nature. The sanctified spirit the light of that candleholder, (perpetually) faces the  Qidam (Infinitely Ancient Realm of actualities) while getting its light from the suns of Azal (Sempiternity, East) and rays of Abadiyat (Eternities, West). And the reality of the the real light (Nur) by intervention of the transient-nature (Hadath), gets its absence from the lamps of wisdom. 

The lost heart: Why has the humanity been placed upon a tiny planet, in a large galaxy, and that galaxy placed within millions of others? Answer: Because each human being carries within the most precious instrument every engineered by Allah i.e. the human heart! There are no records of were we have come from, the only record is kept within the see of Ishq and it only grows from the mud of Adam. This marvel of Divine Engineering had to be hidden, like a treasure in depth of cosmos, away from snatching of the thieves.

gets its absence from the lamps of wisdom: Had the Nur (Divine Light) not been occluded there would have been no carnal nature to the human being i.e. we could not be mammals, we could not have eaten, suffer or comfort, sorrow or frolic, no basic human behaviour could have been possible. Moreover, we could not have evanesced, since our Kamal (Perfection) comes only from the throes of entanglement with the carnal nature, and for that purpose we had to be marooned here:

55:26. All upon her (Earth) evanescing
كُلُّ مَنْ عَلَيْهَا فَانٍ

دل گم شده شمع خدایست، که در لگن صورت به تأثیر حواس و طبیعت محکم است. روح قدسی نور آن شمع دان «یضیء و لولم تمسسه نار». لگن محاذی قبلۀ قدمست، از شموس ازلیات و انوار ابدیات نور گیرد، و حقیقت نور حقیقی بوسایط حدثان از قنادیل حکمت غیبی پذیرد.



The reign of Ishq (Unrestrained Unary Love), indeed a joyous fortune, is the Divine Affection. However within the censer of human spirit/life Ishq is ablaze because of the human being himself! The tailor of wisdom tailors a gown, made from the light of Divine Attributes, fitted for that chameleon (Ishq); sometimes the beloved of the Azal (Sempiternity) might appear within the human love, by means of the Tajalli (Lucent Manifestation) of Jalal (Momentous Glory and Power) thoroughly spiritual.

sometimes the beloved of the Azal (Sempiternity) might appear within the human love: There is one love! All of it from Allah! But it is like a chameleon changing colours and patterns, to confuse our Nafs that we are loving someone other than Allah.


سلطان عشق را مفرح دولت مهر الهیست، لیکن در مجمرۀ جان انسی از روی انسان سوزد، وخیاط حکمت آن جان بوقلمون را جلباب نور صفت دوزد. گاه گاه در زمان عشق معشوق ازل در عشق انسانی برآید به تجلی جلال از کل روحانی.


You can never understand how perplexing this tale is! After uncovering of the Divine Essence of Allah via the Zuhur (Emergence) through the Divine Fa'l (Deeds), (Ishq) dressed itself by the skin of transience (Hadath) as that of Ala' (Divine Gifts) and blessings, thus exhibiting presenting itself to the Arif (Divine Cognoscente); such that (Ishq) could walk (the human being) from transience (Hadath) into the essence of Qidam (Infinitely Ancient Realm of actualities); since human being (by means of Ishq) can commence the motion (towards Qidam) from transience (Hadath) of this temporal world, while Qidam guides Ishq (and thus human being) towards Qidam.

(Ishq) dressed itself by the skin of transience (Hadath) as that of Ala' (Divine Gifts) and blessings: One particular example of Ishq dressed as a Divine Gift is the cell subdivision in our bodies. Indeed each cell divides and makes an almost identical copy of 'itself' as if in love with itself! And within this cell and any other cell in the body, all the genome of the person is copied regardless of the location or the function of the cell. Again indicating a unary self-love of itself.

After uncovering of the Divine Essence of Allah via the Zuhur (Emergence) through the Divine Fa'l (Deeds): To us we do not see or feel the cell division, but we can see and sense its EMERGENCE i.e. limbs and organs each functioning in an orchestral manner.

while Qidam guides Ishq (and thus human being) towards Qidam: Only Ishq  can return you to the Qidam.

 تو ندانی که این حدیث چه بوالعجب نامه ایست، تا بعد از کشف عین الله در ظهور فعل خود را به رسم آلاء و نعماء در پوست حدثان به عارفان نماید، تا از راه حدث در عین قدم آورد، زیرا که برتبت حدث از منزل حدث حرکت نماید. اگر چه قدم او را به قدم رساند،



The wage-takers of the heavens of Divine Secrets i.e. Salik (Voyager) who travel in hope of gaining spiritually, distressed and carefree (Free of Tajalliyat (Lucent Manifestations)) and incapable of glide towards Allah, live on the subsistence made from the beauty and goodness of human being, since human being is the ladder towards the sky of Azal (Sempiternity).

Fret not O beautiful one! The censer burning the (incense) of Fa'l-Khas (Highly Particularized Divine Actions) is really you! And the Wine (Divine Love or Knowledge) of observing the Qidam poured within the cleansed goblet of your soul.

This hidden Sufi because of Tauhid (Divine Oneness) is marooned in this abandoned place, thus in rueful throes of trials of Your (Allah) Ishq. Within the noble powerhouse of :

12:86 He (Jacob) said: "I only complain of my distraction and anguish to Allah

Awaiting the Divine Beauty of the Joseph of the Well.

Poem
For within this candle there is Nur (Divine Light)    

The wage takers: Every Salik or Murid voyages in return for a gain! Like a worker working in hope of a wage.


 مزدوران افلاک آسمان اسرار در شور لاابالی بریاحین حسن انسان بیاسایند، زیرا که نردبان پایۀ آسمان ازلست. بد خوئی مکن. ای ترک رعنا! چون مجمرۀ عود فعل خاص در روی تست، و شراب الفت شاهد قدم در قدح جان پاک تست. این صوفی مستور از صرف توحید در این منزل مهجور است، و در امتحان عشق تو رنجورست. در عزت خانۀ «انما اشکو بثی و حزنی الی الله» منتظر جمال یوسف جاهیست. مصرع:

زیرا که در آن شمع زمان نور الهیست.

You (Human) are the Qibla (Direction for prayers) for all spirits, once you became worthy of That Divine Beloved, hence a beloved yourself. Do not veil your soul against That Divine Beloved, since soul cannot be without That Divine Beloved.

Soul, (expired) from the realm of spirits, in sufferance of Your (Allah) Ishq (Unrestrained Unary Love), while posed to see the virgin brides [1] of de novo Tajalliyat (Lucent Manifestations) midst the leaves of roses in meadows of Your (Allah) Divine Face.  

Your (Allah) creative Spirit, that creates all souls and lives, concealed within the souls of Aulia' (Close Friends of Allah). Could you decipher this poem:

Since the soul is some trace of You (Allah) and sometimes you (human) trace of the soul
Has any eye ever seen the shape or the form of the soul?

Soul is Your (Allah) dust and the dust of Your (Allah) Path the souls of Aulia'
Therefore now the glitter of your (human) gems a trace for the soul 


You (Human) are the Qibla (Direction for prayers) for all spirits: 2:34 And behold, We said to the angels: "Bow down to Adam" and they bowed down

قبلۀ جان شدی، تا در خوردِ جانان، جانان شدی. جان را از جانان مججوب جهان مدار، که جان بی جانان نتواند بود. جان از عالم جان آسیب عشق تو دارد، تا در اوراق ورد صفت در باغ روی تو نو عروسان تجلی مکشوف بیند. جان جان آفرینت در جان جان نهانست. تو بگو تا در میان دو صفت این حدیث کدامست، بیت:

گه جان نشان تست و گهی تونشان جان      گر هیچ دیده صورت جان را اثر ندید
  جان خاک تست وخاک ره تست جان جان     اینک بلعلهای تو پیدا نشان جان.

Sometimes, underneath the patched up (Sufi) worn-gown of the friends (borrowed?), in meandering streets of sorrows for You (Allah), my soliloquies within the Sirr (Divine Observatory) of Azal (Sempiternity); because of Your love singing songs boasting in presence of the singers of elite/elect audience of Malakut (Spiritual Realm); and around the perimeters of humanity vaunting claims of divine nature; and within the factory of Allah's Wisdom, in workshop of humanity I am enrobing the silken unfinished robe of Adam.   

I am enrobing the silken unfinished robe of Adam: Adam was made up of many 'patches' like a quilt, he was part spiritual, part carnal, part combative, part peaceful, part molecular, part psychological and so on. But his integration was perfect. As quilted we are as Adam, we all suffer from imperfection, hence the unfinished robe of Adam.

گه در تحت مرقع آشنایان در کوچهای غم تو، در سرّ ازل مناجات کنم، و به رسم ترنم از روی عشقت با مغنیان مجلس خاص ملکوت مباهات کنم، و رد دائرۀ انسانی دم ربانی زنم، و در کارخانۀ حكمت خدائی در کارگاه انسانی ابریشم حلۀ نیم کار آدم تنم.


Sometimes, while yearning (Shauq), from the east, the Soul powders me with the dust of the Path of That Divine Beloved. Often times due to the Ghira-Jalali (Not allowing other than Allah's Momentous Presence) I hang (like a trophy) the carnal Nafs (Self) upon the gate of the Nafs-Nātiqa (Self that seeks knowledge no matter within which universe[2]), since within the bazar of all things Divine the animal proclivities of the human riff-rafts not allowed.   

 گاه در زمان شوق از شرق جان به خاک راه جانان مفرح آمیزدم. و گاه گاه از روی غیرت جلالی حق
نفسِ   روینده به درگه نفسِ  گوینده بر آویزم، تا در بازار ربانی آشوب اوباش طبیعت انسانی نباشد.


Because the audience of the theatre of Azal (Sempiternity) and the observing virgin brides of Abad (Eternity), turning their chaste faces away from the livestock market of the Ghayb (Unseen) towards the estranged ones, estranged from the carnality of nature, while tumulting with the emotional disturbances of secrets of Ishq seeking the spirits (close to Allah). 

while tumulting with the emotional disturbances of secrets of Ishq: http://www.untiredwithloving.org/zaid.html

the estranged ones & seeking the spirits (close to Allah): These are the spirits in Paradise Allah endowed for human beings of wives and husbands and family member-types to compensate them for what they did not have here or what they lost here. In other words, those on the Path turn their faces away from the temporary beloveds of this earth.

See Also: http://www.untiredwithloving.org/hur.htm

زیرا که مشهود سرای ازل و عرایس مشاهدۀ ابد از نخاس خانۀ غیب روی عفت به بیگانگان طبیعت بنمایند، و از صاحبان دل در تهیج اسرار عشق به کابین وصایف جنان قرب جانها خواهند.


The bird of Divine Oneness demands a ready-made nest from this penniless Murid (Seeker of the Divine), so that the hawk of Fardania (Singled out essence of Allah) to settle within this spiritual nest, and by the beak of Nur (Divine Light) of Kibriya (Allah's Greatness) to snatch anything other than Allah. 

What an unthinkably bold and reckless eye I have, after all that I have seen (of carnality of the human nature), then suddenly I see Hu (IT) within all these:

Once Allah chose you as a friend
Your reckless eyes shall see it all

See Also: http://www.untiredwithloving.org/Kamaal_fragranace_of_life.html

از این مرید بی سرمایه مرغ وحدانیت آشیان جان بی زحمت خواهد، تا باز فردانی در آشیان جان روحانی درآید، و به منقار نور کبریا هر چه جز خدا برباید. شوخ دیده ای دارم، چون دیدم آنچه دیدم، و آنگاه او را در این بینم.

 بیت


چون خدایت به دوستی بگزید     چشم شوخ تو دیدنی همه دید






[1] Virgin Brides has nothing to do with untouched women or marriage, it is found often in the language of the Arab to indicate something that occurs and never again e.g. a particular blossom on a tree will never bloom again, and if there is another blossom blooming of course it is another one. This verbiage applied quite often by Sheikh Baqli to Divine Secrets, for they are uncovered once for a human being, and another human being uncovers another one specific to his or existence free of any repetition or redundancy.



[2]

التنبيه والإشراف المسعودي
وأن النفس الناطقة جوهر بسيط من جوهر الحي الذي لا يموت، وأن موتها انتقالها من جسم إلى جسم، وأنها إذا فارقت البدن عاينت كل ما في العوالم، ولمي خف عليها خافية، وأن غرضها وغايتها القصوى السعادة واللحاق بعالم العقل، وهي الإنسان على الحقيقة والعلة في نزولها من عالم العقل إلى عالم الحس، حتى نسيت بعد الذكر، وجهلت بعد العلم، وقول من رأى ذلك منهم، ولأية علة صار الإنسان العالم الصغير، وما اجتمع فيه وشبه به من سائر الأشياء، وما الاتصال والنسبة بين العوالم،




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