The
East of Benevolence
The beginning of Your pain, is the
end of all other pain
Your love, Your desire knows no bound
no end [1]
How much longer forcing the strangers
to taste the torments
In spite of Your mercy upon us, still
so many complaints [2]
Within the drama of Your love no
knowledge and deeds fit [3]
Where Your legend wows there is no
room for mere stories
Comparing to Your knowledge like a
stumbling toddler
All wise old sages and all powerful
governing men
To no prophet and no close friend
revealed Your depth
[4]
That much has been revealed through
Gabriel and the verse
If the book of my poems not written
by the heart’s blood
These words would not have entered
any bosoms at all
Did you know Kamaal if a dark day
reaches upon you [5]
Indeed shall rise a sun from the east
of benevolence soon
[1] I am in love with these words. Yes
truly any ache for
the Beloved ends all other mortal pains we experience. Perhaps
sometimes Allah
breaks our heart in order for us to be relieved from all other pain and
through
the cracks of our hearts beams of light illuminate a path towards the
Beloved.
[2] Kamaal is praying to Allah to stop
the pain and
suffering for the people around him e.g. the Mongols his enemies who
were in
constant war and torment. He is telling Allah that people like him who
are
blessed by Allah and know the truth are complaining much about the
daily
suffering, but what about these unlearned unwise misguided creators
around him
who know nothing of the Beloved.
[3] Kamaal is teaching us that
knowledge and actions belong
to outside world of Beloved’ life. Where there is the love of Beloved
knowledge
and deeds are just tales and stories not real at all. This is a
paramount
discovery of this man and a lifetime needs to be devoted to uncover its
secrets.
[4] “The verse” refers to Koran, which
was revealed through
the Angel Gabriel.
[5] This is a law in the universe of
human affairs, the sun
of victory and benevolence dawns at the darkest moment of our night,
but it
rises for certain, Koran[2:214]:
©
2003-2002,
Dara Shayda
