Burn the prayer rug, break the clay pot: Bullah Shah
submitted 1 year 2 months 22 hours ago by: Babarzm : 7 comments
Few more poems by Bullah Shah. Lets see how our Islamist buddies hijack these here:
The blossoming of love is strange and wondrous!
When I acquired the knowledge of love,
I dreaded the mosque.
I fled to my Lords dwelling,
Where a thousand sounds reverberate.
When love revealed its mystery to me,
The parroted words vanished.
Inside and out, I was cleansed.
I saw my Beloved wherever I looked.
Heer and Ranjha are already one.
But Heer, deluded, still searches the woods.
Here Ranjha is with her,
And she does not even know it.
I am tired of reading the Vedas and the Koran!
Obeisance has only abraded my forehead.
God was not in Mecca, nor any holy place.
But whoever finds Him becomes brightly illuminated.
Burn the prayer rug, break the clay pot,
Divest yourself of rosary, bowl and staff.
Those who love - proclaim repeatedly and loudly,
‘Eat the forbidden! Forsake halaal!’(a lawful diet)
You have spent your life in the mosque,
Yet your heart is filled with filth.
Not once did you discern that God is One!
What is your point in making this racket now?
Your devotion was loveless.
Now your protestations are worthless.
Bulleh says, I would have remained silent,
It is love that compels me to speak forcefully.
The blossoming of love is strange and wonderful.
A little bit of extra treat for Islamists:
The hajjis go to Mecca.
My beloved Ranjha is my Mecca.
Yes, I am crazy!
I am wedded to Ranjha.
Still my father pushes me.
Yes, I am crazy!
The hajjis go to Mecca
My bridegroom, within me, is my Mecca.
Yes, I am crazy!
Hajjis and ghazis both lie within us,
Thieves and pickpockets too.
Yes, I am crazy!
The Hajjis go to Mecca
But I am going to Takht Hazara.
Yes, I am crazy!
Wherever is your beloved, there lies Kaaba,
Though you search the four books.
Yes, I am crazy!
Why should I go to Kaaba
When I long for Takht Hazaara?
People worship Kaaba,
I worship my dearest Friend.
I long for Takht Hazaara.
Beloved Raanjha, seeing my defects,
do not put me out of your mind,
Remember(think of) this worthless one.
I long for Takht Hazaara.
Though I cannot swim,
It will be your shame if I drown.
I long for Takht Hazaara.
I found no one like you,
Though I searched the entire world.
I long for Takht Hazaara.
And a bit more - Special dedication to MSEhsan and his Sharai buddies:
Stay silent to survive.
People cannot stand to hear the truth.
They are at your throat if you speak it.
They keep away from those who speak it.
But truth is sweet to its lovers!
Truth destroys shara (shariah).
Brings rapture to its lovers,
And unexpected riches,
Which shara (shariah) obscures.
Those lovers cannot remain silent
Who have inhaled the fragrance of truth.
Those who have woven love into their lives,
Leave this world of falsehood.
Bulleh Shah speaks the truth.
He uncovers the truth of shara (shariah).
He opens the path to the fourth level,
Which shara (shariah) obscures.
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Comments
What seems to be the issue here? He is talking about the importance of the essence of worship over the ritualistic form of worship. So what did you prove?
"Devoid of all wisdom"
khalifah is right. what did you proved above??? Bulleh shah jee wrote about catahrsis of oneself.
babar: listen. you got islamo-fobia like your intellectual godfather Mr NFP. Now whatever comes to your hand, gets against islamist wether theyu have to do somethign with it or not.
I am glad both you didn't get it.
Plant a tree
I am afraid you don't get it all; have a family member explain it :)
Lol khalifah,
at least babar has family members and friends to discuss and explain things - unlike you, who by self-admission does not have any friends - you are a loner
At least Bulleh is not promoting a Kalashnikov culture through his poems, Khalifah. Hence your interpretation can't be right.
And the pluralistic message of Bulleh is not Islamic either, otherwise there was no need to burn the prayer rugs and opposing Shariya (Islamic law). Clearly his guidance is not the one of orthodox Islamist Wahhabis.
Furthermore the message is too liberal to be bound into narrowness of one single faith. What is your take befair? Being a liberal Hindu, do you oppose anything that Bullah has said through his poems?
And E?
I feel that the message is so much inclusive that the reach is far beyond faith divides. Or for that matter, it reaches even to those who have got no faith and only liberal values. There is also this message of regional peace beyond religions, when Bullah replaced Islamic Kaba with the regional Tkuht Hazara.
Plant a tree
To me, the message of brotherhood and love encompassing the range of faiths is crystal clear and obvious.