{"id":1018,"date":"2013-07-11T23:33:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T04:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2018-02-04T22:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T03:39:29","slug":"the-name-allah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/2013\/07\/11\/the-name-allah\/","title":{"rendered":"The name “Allah”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alif<\/em> before double lam<\/em><\/h6>\n
and Ha<\/em>-the delight of the eye<\/h6>\n
Alif\u00a0<\/em>proclaims the name<\/h6>\n
with two\u00a0lams<\/em>\u00a0without body<\/h6>\n
and\u00a0Ha\u00a0<\/em>is the sign of the writing<\/h6>\n
“Secret” is spelled with two letters.<\/h6>\n
There is a name with no place.<\/h6>\n

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Read these letters together.<\/h6>\n
You will see by them, the heart is satisfied<\/h6>\n
and forgets its past trials<\/h6>\n
and advances, flanked on both sides<\/h6>\n
by two delicate mysteries<\/h6>\n

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My passionate love became public<\/h6>\n
Dawn appeared after my night<\/h6>\n
and I became a light for existence<\/h6>\n
a sun between two moons:<\/h6>\n
I know not where I am<\/h6>\n

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My most pious love means<\/h6>\n
to be annihilated in Him as a slave<\/h6>\n
and truly, in annihilation, I vanish<\/h6>\n
for the finding is between two losings<\/h6>\n
and life is in two deaths<\/h6>\n

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My darling, the one I passionately love<\/h6>\n
my spirit’s sustenance when I die<\/h6>\n
Fearing separation I sing:<\/h6>\n
When, o apple of my eye,<\/h6>\n
Will I find union without place?<\/h6>\n

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Translation from L.M. Alvares.\u00a0Abu al-\u1e24asan al-Shushtari: Songs of Love and Devotion. \u00a0<\/em>p. 90<\/p>\n

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Translation: Alif before double lam and Ha-the delight of the eye Alif\u00a0proclaims the name with two\u00a0lams\u00a0without body and\u00a0Ha\u00a0is the sign of the writing “Secret” is spelled with two letters. There is a name with no place.   Read these letters … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[620],"tags":[65693,110354],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","tag-arabic-sufi-poetry","tag-shushtari"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7NI4C-gq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}