Today I sit with wine and drinkers.
Today I do not need the puritan or the chaste.
Today none asks what is the drink or who is drunk.
Today the Saqi hands the wine and smiles.
Talk not of the night of separation today.
Today I meet my Beloved and embrace.
Today is celebration and song and Saqi’s eyes.
Today the cup, the jug and wine.
Today I’m drunk and forget morning, noon and night.
Today time passes, and we do not know it’s passed.
Today all is tumult and all is joy and mischief,
The gathering is alive with presence divine.
Forgetting of our selves, we worship the wine.
Today all we desire is the Saqi’s bounty.
Today Shams of Tabriz showed his rivals the way
By the wine of Oneness, not by trivial talk.
Where is the way that I was treading?
I avoid it as it was the wrong way.
One moment spent away from the Beloved’s street
Is forbidden in the religion of the lovers.
Still I say: the path is not easy,
A thousand traps greet each and every step.
O restless heart, come not this way.
Stay at a place that suits you best.
Stay where life is nourished,
Ask for that wine that lightens the soul.
All else is but mere appearance, color, form;
All else is mere battle for name and fame.
Be silent and sit beside at the feet of he
Who is drunk, and all around him drunk.
O Glory of Belief, Shamsuddin,
To Thee I am enslaved body and soul!
On this path of Love sublime,
Anything else is idolatry;
Anything else but light of union,
On this path is unbelief.
If you only see the Beloved,
Your eyes are faulty;
The truthful eye of the lover
Must look to God alone.
Pass by the world of everyday
And drink the wine of Allah’s Way.
Drink of Love, that is life’s elixir pure.
What use has the lover of this world?
The spirit of the Lover pure
Goes beyond the way of this world.
In the calamity of poverty lies
A kingly secret;
Adopt poverty, O traveller,
For that’s the Prophet’s Way.
He’s worshipped by angels.
He is unique and unrivalled.
His dwelling place, beyond the
World we know.
O Glory of Tabriz, Sun of Truth,
Find not fault in me!
In my heart and soul
A fire burns for Thee!
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