Another poem sung by Shaykh Yasin

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.)

Watch Shaykh Yasin perform this poem (ff to 6:42)