{"id":1894,"date":"2015-03-18T01:32:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T06:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2015-03-18T01:32:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T06:32:17","slug":"fire-on-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/2015\/03\/18\/fire-on-the-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire on the mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Ibn al-F\u0101ri\u1e0d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0KMNx8B4Q6g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Translation:<\/p>\n<h6>Don&#8217;t consider me to be a pretender in love<\/h6>\n<h6>my affection\u00a0for you is natural, without affectation<\/h6>\n<h6>Even if my spirit were in my hands, I would hand it over<\/h6>\n<h6>to the one who announces your arrival, and it&#8217;d still be a bargain<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>You are my duties and my voluntary prayers<\/h6>\n<h6>You are my speech and my works<\/h6>\n<h6>O the direction of my prayers when I pray<\/h6>\n<h6>Your beauty is what my eyes see<\/h6>\n<h6>to it I turn my totality<\/h6>\n<h6>your secret is in the depths of my consciousness<\/h6>\n<h6>my heart is the mountain where God manifested Himself<\/h6>\n<h6>I glimpsed a fire in the neighborhood by night and I told my people<\/h6>\n<h6>I said, &#8220;stay here and perhaps I&#8217;ll find my guidance there.&#8221;<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a 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