Islam's Reformers .pdf

human mind cannot comprehend and which the humanimagination cannot reach, very laconically and beautifullythrough the words coming out of his sensitive soul and his greatliterary skill. Those who read and can understand them admirethem. In its translation into English, it is impossible to expressthat fine art, those deep meanings. Yet, let us render our bookvaluable by writing the translation of a few of the couplets whichhe said when visiting Qabr as-Sa’âda:“O the most beautiful of the beautiful, you burn me withyour love!I care nothing; always with your dream is my mind!You are the Shah of “Ka’ba Qawsain”, and me adisobedient slave,How can this confused speak of being a guest of you?When you glanced once with pity, you enlivened deadhearts,Refuging your endless mercy, I knocked at your door.The source of goodness, the ocean of pity you are!Favour me a drop, I am at a loss of remedy!Everybody comes to Mecca, Ka’ba, Safâ and Marwa.As for me, for you I passed over mounts and hills.Last night I dreamt of my head touching the skies,I felt as if your servants had stepped on my neck.O Hadrat Jâmi, the nightingale of my darling!From amongst your poems, I selected this couplet:‘Like mangy dogs, with tongues hanging down,Hoping a tiny drop, to your ocean of favour I came’.”In another poem of his, he expresses as follows:“O the shelter of sinners, to take refuge in thee I come!I committed many guilts, here to beg thee I come!I deviated into dark places, I got stuck in bogs,To the source of light, the illuminator of right path Icome.I have only a life left to lose, O the life of all lives!Will it be proper to say ‘to sacrifice my life I come’?You are the healer of the sufferer, and me is a sick atheart,For the remedy of my heart’s sore, to knock at your door- 301 -