Difference between revisions of "Another poem sung by Shaykh Yasin"
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ma aqraba’l-arwaha minna ladaa’l-ghinaa | ma aqraba’l-arwaha minna ladaa’l-ghinaa | ||
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siwaa naghamatin adrakathaa qadiimati | siwaa naghamatin adrakathaa qadiimati | ||
How near are the spirits when there’s song | How near are the spirits when there’s song | ||
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like melodies they knew in pre-eternity | like melodies they knew in pre-eternity | ||
(Pre-eternity: In Islamic cosmology, the time before the world was created, when the Primordial Covenant was established between God and humanity. God said: alastu bi rabbikum, ‘Am I not your Lord?’, and the spirits answered “balaa”, ‘indeed’. Sufis consider this moment of Divine proximity to be the first dhikr, and the ahistorical origin to which they desire to return. “Melodies” is likely a reference to this Covenant; song reminds the spirits of their origin, and so they gather to hear it. Jalal al-Din al-Rumi has also written of the Covenant in this way; see Schimmel, Annemarie. 1975. Mystical Dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, p. 184.) | (Pre-eternity: In Islamic cosmology, the time before the world was created, when the Primordial Covenant was established between God and humanity. God said: alastu bi rabbikum, ‘Am I not your Lord?’, and the spirits answered “balaa”, ‘indeed’. Sufis consider this moment of Divine proximity to be the first dhikr, and the ahistorical origin to which they desire to return. “Melodies” is likely a reference to this Covenant; song reminds the spirits of their origin, and so they gather to hear it. Jalal al-Din al-Rumi has also written of the Covenant in this way; see Schimmel, Annemarie. 1975. Mystical Dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, p. 184.) |
Revision as of 10:37, 16 March 2006
ma aqraba’l-arwaha minna ladaa’l-ghinaa
siwaa naghamatin adrakathaa qadiimati
How near are the spirits when there’s song
like melodies they knew in pre-eternity
(Pre-eternity: In Islamic cosmology, the time before the world was created, when the Primordial Covenant was established between God and humanity. God said: alastu bi rabbikum, ‘Am I not your Lord?’, and the spirits answered “balaa”, ‘indeed’. Sufis consider this moment of Divine proximity to be the first dhikr, and the ahistorical origin to which they desire to return. “Melodies” is likely a reference to this Covenant; song reminds the spirits of their origin, and so they gather to hear it. Jalal al-Din al-Rumi has also written of the Covenant in this way; see Schimmel, Annemarie. 1975. Mystical Dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, p. 184.)