{"id":2471,"date":"2016-02-19T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2016-02-22T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T15:23:42","slug":"bright-night-dark-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/2016\/02\/19\/bright-night-dark-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Night, Dark Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"namibdesert\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Shabistari<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Rose Garden of Mystery (verses 122-130)<\/p>\n

<\/h6>\n
Reason’s light applied to\u00a0the Essence of Lights<\/h6>\n
is like the eye of the head looking at\u00a0the brilliance of the Sun<\/h6>\n
when the object seen is very close to the eye<\/h6>\n
The eye is darkened so that it cannot see it<\/h6>\n

This blackness, if you know it, is the very light of Being<\/p>\n

in the land of darkness is the fountain of life<\/h6>\n
Since the darkness destroys the light of vision<\/h6>\n
Give up loooking, for this is no place for looking<\/h6>\n
What connection has dust with the pure world?<\/h6>\n
Its perception is the inability to perceive perception<\/h6>\n
…<\/h6>\n
What shall I say?\u00a0since this saying is fine,<\/span><\/h6>\n
“A bright night in the midst of a dark day”<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n
In this place of witnessing,\u00a0which is the light of manifestation<\/h6>\n
\u00a0I have much to say, but silence is best.<\/h6>\n

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\"Spain<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"nasrmolkmosque\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ibn al-F\u0101ri\u1e0d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Translation:<\/p>\n

If he should visit one day, o my heart,\u00a0tear yourself to shreds in love for him<\/h6>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and if he should leave, o eye, pour out tears<\/h6>\n
But there is no harm in distance, for\u00a0the one I love is with me<\/h6>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0For if he be absent from the pupil of my eye, yet still\u00a0he is in me<\/h6>\n

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\"namibdesert2\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Shakespeare<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sonnet 43<\/p>\n

When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
\nFor all the day they view things unrespected;
\nBut when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
\nAnd darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.
\nThen thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
\nHow would thy shadow’s form form happy show
\nTo the clear day with thy much clearer light,
\nWhen to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
\nHow would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
\nBy looking on thee in the living day,
\nWhen in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
\nThrough heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0All days are nights to see till I see thee,<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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