I have come into this world to see this By Hafiz

I have come into this world to see this:
BY Hafiz(1326-1390)

Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Music:Omar Khairat


I have come into this world to see this:
the sword drop from men’s hands
even at the height
of their arc of
anger

because we have finally realized there is just
one flesh to wound and it is His -
the Christ’s, our
Beloved’s.

I have come into this world to see this:
all creatures hold hands as we pass through
this miraculous existence we share on the way
to even a greater being of soul,
a being of just ecstatic light,
forever entwined
and at play with
Him.


I have come into this world to hear this:
every song the earth has sung
since it was conceived in the
Divine’s womb and began
spinning from
His wish,


every song by wing and fin and hoof,
every song by hill and field and tree and woman and child,
every song of stream and rock,
every song of tool and lyre and flute,
every song of gold and emerald and fire,
every song the heart should cry with magnificent dignity
to know itself as God:


for all other knowledge will leave us again
in want and aching only imbibing
the glorious Sun will
complete us.

I have come into this world to experience this:
men so true to love they would rather
die before speaking
an unkind
word,


men so true their lives are His covenant the promise of hope.
I have come into this world to see this:
the sword drop from men’s hands
even at the height
of their arc of
rage

because we have finally realized
there is just one flesh
we can wound.




You Were Brave in that Holy War
Hafiz
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

You have done well
In the contest of madness.
You were brave in that holy war.

You have all the honorable wounds
Of one who has tried to find love
Where the Beautiful Bird
Does not drink.

May I speak to you
Like we are close
And locked away together?
Once I found a stray kitten
And I used to soak my fingers
In warm milk;

It came to think I was five mothers
On one hand.
Wayfarer,
Why not rest your tired body?
Lean back and close your eyes.

Come morning
I will kneel by your side and feed you.
I will so gently
Spread open your mouth
And let you taste something of my
Sacred mind and life.

Surely
There is something wrong
With your ideas of
God

O, surely there is something wrong
With your ideas of
God

If you think
Our Beloved would not be so
Tender.



With That Moon Language
By Hafiz
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky



Admit something: Everyone you see,
you say to them, "Love me."
Of course you do not do this out loud,
otherwise someone would call the cops.


Still though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each
eye that is always saying, with that sweet moon language,
What every other eye in this world is dying to hear?

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