{"id":2899,"date":"2018-05-03T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2018-05-03T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:22:26","slug":"khaqani-on-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/2018\/05\/03\/khaqani-on-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Khaqani on Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lazerhorse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Islamic-Calligram-Eagle.jpg?w=584\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Khaqani<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Translation:<\/p>\n<p>The bird that sings the song of pain is love<br \/>\nThe courier who knows the tongue of the Unseen is love<br \/>\nThe existence that calls you to nonexistence is love<br \/>\nAnd that which redeems you from you is love<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Original:<\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"fa\" xml:lang=\"fa\">\u0645\u0631\u063a\u06cc \u06a9\u0647 \u0646\u0648\u0627\u06cc \u062f\u0631\u062f \u0631\u0627\u0646\u062f \u0639\u0634\u0642 \u0627\u0633\u062a<br \/>\n\u067e\u064a\u06a9\u06cc \u06a9\u0647 \u0632\u0628\u0627\u0646 \u063a\u064a\u0628 \u062f\u0627\u0646\u062f \u0639\u0634\u0642 \u0627\u0633\u062a<br \/>\n\u0647\u0633\u062a\u06cc \u06a9\u0647 \u0628\u0647 \u0646\u064a\u0633\u062a\u064a\u062a \u062e\u0648\u0627\u0646\u062f \u0639\u0634\u0642 \u0627\u0633\u062a<br \/>\n\u0648\u0622\u0646\u0686 \u0627\u0632 \u062a\u0648 \u062a\u0631\u0627 \u0628\u0627\u0632 \u0631\u0647\u0627\u0646\u062f \u0639\u0634\u0642 \u0627\u0633\u062a<\/span>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>Translation by Reza Saberi<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/58\/ba\/e2\/58bae246dee9b89c6e1023a87e84c4e8.jpg?w=584&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Rumi<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>What then is love? The Ocean of Nonexistence.<\/p>\n<p>It is there that the foot of the intellect is broken<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Rumi, Mathnawi, ed. Nicholson, III: 4724.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/4b\/35\/fb\/4b35fbe4791171405a12348be1c121f3.jpg?w=584&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Ibn &#8216;Arabi<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Many mistakes may occur in love. The first of them is that people imagine that the object of love is an existent thing&#8230; In fact, love&#8217;s object remains forever nonexistent, but most lovers are not aware of this, unless they should be knowers of the realities. (II 337.17)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/Ebc9Q5Ak7ks?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<div class=\"layoutArea\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Camaron de la Isla<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<p>Translation:<\/p>\n<h6>I am like the sad bird<\/h6>\n<h6>that flits from branch to branch<\/h6>\n<h6>singing his suffering<\/h6>\n<h6>because he doesn&#8217;t know how to cry<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Original:<\/p>\n<h6>Soy c\u00f3mo el p\u00e1jaro triste,<\/h6>\n<h6>ay que de rama en rama va,<\/h6>\n<h6>cantando su sufrimiento, cantando su sufrimiento,<\/h6>\n<h6>porque no sabe llorar.<\/h6>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thegatesofdamascus.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/calligraphic_falcon_mi93.jpg?w=584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khaqani Translation: The bird that sings the song of pain is love The courier who knows the tongue of the Unseen is love The existence that calls you to nonexistence is love And that which redeems you from you is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/2018\/05\/03\/khaqani-on-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[620,65686,65685],"tags":[65700,139172,65692,65695,65691,65694],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-flamenco","category-persian","tag-camaron-de-la-isla","tag-flamenco","tag-ibn-arabi","tag-persian-sufi-poetry","tag-related-poems","tag-rumi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7NI4C-KL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","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=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2918,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}