In The Deluge Of Love Poem by Mohammad Younus

From your mercy is born the rose of my love;
Let the praise of Thy mercy be on my tongue!
You have adorned your book of guidance...
...with the verse of your Mercy just at the beginning;
You are the most beneficent, the most merciful!

A thirst for Thy love is in my heart and soul!
Like Mansur, constantly on my tongue you speak:
'I am The Truth'! 'I am The Truth'!
I hear you proclaim every hour:
'I am the whole, not divisible into parts'!
Everything in your universe claims:
'I am not cut off from The Whole'!

The waves of Thy deluge of love strike against...
...the boat of my existence;
I don't need any Noah to get me out of the deeps of deluge!
My love-drowned soul is pleased to annihilate itself...
...in the the vastness of the deluge of your love.

By your command, the spirits of the darkness...
...from my breast have flown away;
My words of repentance in the stomach of the whale...
...graciously have been accepted by you -
Like Younus who belonged to your tribe of great prophets;
And now, no more do I shed tears or moan and mourn...
...for being away from your throne.

The pearls of the love-drops like raindrops trickle into my heart;
My soul pokes its musical thread through their eye-holes!
And joins them into a musical rosary;
This musical rosary hangs on the lashes of my eyes...
...and is giving out a rhythmic sound!
Hu! Hu! Hu La Illaha Illa Hu! Hu! Hu! Hu!
This melodic sound is endless...
...and echoes through night and day!
Such a music of delight is in truth my life!

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