{"id":35,"date":"2012-03-28T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T21:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/?p=35"},"modified":"2016-04-14T19:52:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T00:52:21","slug":"layla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/2012\/03\/28\/layla\/","title":{"rendered":"Layla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img1.etsystatic.com\/059\/1\/10172318\/il_340x270.758087917_qycn.jpg?resize=340%2C270&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(English adaptation by Martin Lings)<\/p>\n<p>Full near I came unto where dwelleth<br \/>\nLayla, when I heard her call.<br \/>\nThat voice, would I might ever hear it!<br \/>\nShe favored me, and drew me to her,<br \/>\nTook me in, into her precinct,<br \/>\nWith discourse intimate addressed me.<br \/>\nShe sat me by her, then came closer,<br \/>\nRaised the cloak that hid her from me,<br \/>\nMade me marvel to distraction,<br \/>\nBewildered me with all her beauty.<br \/>\nShe took me and amazed me,<br \/>\nAnd hid me in her inmost self,<br \/>\nUntil I thought that she was I,<br \/>\nAnd my life she took as ransom.<br \/>\nShe changed me and transfigured me,<br \/>\nAnd marked me with her special sign,<br \/>\nPressed me to her, put me from her,<br \/>\nNamed me as she is named.<br \/>\nHaving slain and crumbled me,<br \/>\nShe steeped the fragments in her blood.<br \/>\nThen, after my death, she raised me:<br \/>\nMy star shines in her firmament.<br \/>\nWhere is my life, and where my body,<br \/>\nWhere my willful soul? From her<br \/>\nThe truth of these shone out to me<br \/>\nSecrets that had been hidden from me.<br \/>\nMine eyes have never seen but her:<br \/>\nTo naught else can they testify.<br \/>\nAll meanings in her are comprised.<br \/>\nGlory be to her Creator!<br \/>\nThou that beauty wouldst describe,<br \/>\nHere is something of her brightness<br \/>\nTake it from me. 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