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…er things very well composed have I sung concerning thee.1 I have even compared the perfume of thy podex to that of the rose, and I take Allah to witness that this is not so, except by favour of Him in whom all is One.2 I was faithful and diligent in love, and worshipped thee above all save Him to whom alone worship is due. Thou didst cast me off for thy filthy lovers — Allah forget them ! — and now thou comest back thou thinkest still to play the master. No, by Allah ! thy podex doth not resemble the rose, or another flower ; it resembles noth…
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…rue and secret unpronounceable Name of God, concealed by its obviousness. The 100th name, about which people make such a fuss, is simply Allah [Persian text] itself, the other 99 merely replacing Allah in the sentence Hua Allahu alazi wailaha illa Hua, thus : Hua Arrahmanu alazi etc., and so for the rest. How [Persian text] came to mean God ([Per- sian text] the God) is a question for the profoundest scholarship ; but we note that [Persian text] has the numerical value of 66, and that 66 is the sum of the first 12 numbers, beginning, as Orienta…
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Ecstasy to content the mystic, without scientific, 113 enquiry into its nature. Pantheism. The garden quit ? Frequent the mosque ? By Allah, ’twas an ass that brayed. Allah, if Allah be, indwells All beauty.3 He is best repaid By who loves jade as jade, nor asks Some mighty Jaker for the Jade.4 The garden-podex wants, methinks, No worship, but a member-spade.5 1. The Sodom-fable is to be found in the XVth chaper of the Q’uran. Moslems accept the Bible, so far as it goes. Only they regard the Christian as the Christian regards the Jew : as one n…
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…ions of the women are well shaded from the sun.” Now it is thin and transparent, that tun- ic of thine, and people are saying : “ Please Allah it may not rain ; else will the horses catch cold and die ! ”.3 Every gossip comes to me and prates of thy mis- demeanours ; my beard waves with anger like an old goat’s. Come to me, and I will beat thee sound- ly ; and if thou offendest again I will carry thee be- fore this ass-calibred Qazi—Allah on him !—I know well what punishment he will give thee—love ; but ever after thou shalt have no need to be …
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…ergris, And soft thou art like peaches ; seventhly, Such is the beauty of its form that one Seeing it, might be well content to die. [So Allah blazes brighter than the noon ; No water stains His spotless unity. His love once hold thee, He will never loose ; But shake with rapture to the utmost “ I ” ; The perfume of His love is wonderful, And tender is He as a virgin’s eye, While for His beauty are no words of earth, Nor can the heavens this need with song supply.]3 So thou with Allah, man ! hold Him as dear (Nay, dearer !) as the apple of thin…
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…han work of man or wrath of God. 101 XXVI THE TOWER OF SHINAR1 On Shinar plain a tower was built By man’s ambitious fear and guilt. (But Allah smote it with his fire : — Who sees it yonder in the silt ?) But I have built a higher tower Of love and fame for thee, o jilt !2 And yet a higher,3 this member firm, Fit for thy podex, an thou wilt. Nor Allah smites it, nor the Jinn, Until its pearly wine is spilt. Come in the cool of evening Beneath the figured goathair4 quilt ! Then will I gallop through the vale My spear at thy djirid to tilt.5 Thy b…
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The Mystic happier than his fellows. 91 XXII THE FOREHEAD-WRITING On each man’s brow hath Allah wrote his fate :— Many are destined to frequent by gate ! They catch a glimpse of thee upon the roof :— By fixed Necessity they masturbate !1 But thou and I are free,2 as love is free ; We smoke and drink and smile, content to wait.3 The Zahid-sage is bound by dogma’s chain, Looks up and worships—let the donkey prate ! The wine-drawer and his beloved boy Unite above in the ecstatic state. Nor doth the Sufi need a heaven in Heaven :— Earth’s heaven to…
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104 Ecstasy stronger than Death. The ‘ Maybe ’ and the ‘ Letushope ’, the ‘ Allahknows ’ and ‘ Ibelieve ’ ; The ‘ Sweetitwas ’ and ‘ Werecall ’, the ‘ Pitytis ’ and ‘ Mighthavebeen ’4 These founder in the rushing tide, these bear a cargo black with fear, Heavy with hate and dull with woe, a miserable load of teen : While we the ‘ Jolly Roger ’5 sail whose freight is fairy6 pearls of dew ; The podex and the member locked, without a bar, without a screen. Remembrance and regret we quash ; we banish traitor hope and fear ; The present ecstasy is a…
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…my personality or thine, but art completely absorbed by the act ? It causes me to remember an antient folly and blasphemy spoken to me — Allah purify mine ears ! — by a certain Sufi, who, being excessively drunk, had lost control over his tongue. For he said that in a certain holy meditation both Allah and himself were destroyed, and that nought re- mained, but only the consciousness of bliss.1 This is contrary to reason, for how can bliss exist, ex- cept as the quality of some person or sensible thing ? Nevertheless, these experiments which I …
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The Atheist. 99 Allah’s the atheist ! He owns no Allah. Sneer, thou dullard churl ! The Sufi worships not, but drinks, being himself the all-divine. Come, my Habib, the roses blush, the waters gleam, the bulbul sings — To pierce thy podex El Qahar’s urgent and immi- nent design !7 1. God — not Noah. But the grape here means the physical basis of Ecstasy. 2. The word used here is not [Persian text] but [Persian text] the square root (arithmetic). Possibly a pun with the word [Persian text] jazbat, which I have translated “ charm.” However there …
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…e. Of what do I sing now ? Of thy faithlessness. Thy presence or absence makes no difference, therefore, to me. In the same way, whether Allah be or be not is little odds so long as His devotees enjoy the mystic rapture.2 Yet as the podex of Aziz is inferior to thy podex,3 both because it has two fistulae, and because it lacks thy heat, dryness, and tightness, so also is the god of the Christians inferior to Allah, both be- cause he has two cogods, and because he hath nei- ther the power, the wisdom, not the compassion of Him who is alone and w…
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…den to sup. Go not, O sweet Ha- bib ! that ass-calibred Jew3 is as unsuited to thy tender podex as the elephant to the nightin- gale. By Allah, I say, go not ! ’twere shame, when thou returnest, that thou shouldest seem to thine El Qahar like Hatim Tai’s4 tunic to that Allah- forgotten hunchback5 Ali Bukhti.6 1. To break wind is the worst breach of good taste possible to a Musalman. Witness the famous story translated by Burton. 2. Qazi — magistrate. 3. It is exceedingly doubtful whether an actual Jew would be permitted to hold office, even if …
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The Falsity of the Frank. 63 “ conscious communion with God on the part of an atheist ” — and so on. 3. Again Habib represents Allah ; the constant interchange is very confusing, and to Western minds a great blemish on the poem. But the chil- dish subtlety of the Eastern mind regards this as a “ veil ”, preventing the unbeliever from penetrating the allegory. 4. Q’uran CXII. Cf. Browning (Ring and Book, The Pope) for these 3 qualities. 5. Affirms the subjective value of Devotion.
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…est. 8. All this is the orthodox Sufi method of ex- plaining the origin of Evil, which, as monotheists, they are compelled to ascribe to Allah. We have much similar casuistry in the West.
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94 The Mystic the true support of all religion. So, seeing man beloved of Allah, jinn Aim at that bliss ; their crowns and jewels fling From star to star before the crystal throne, And El Islam goes ever widening.7 To Allah praise ! and El Qahar his slave Taketh reward in offering thanksgiving. 1. Mirrikh. Mars the planet. 2. I have often seen Mars — in the Red Sea es- pecially — with its apparent diameter something like a quarter that of the moon, and its brightness sufficient to wake me, who am the soundest of sleepers. Thus seen for the firs…
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…nfortunate, but a bad man. Witness “ Expect 42 ills from the cripple, and 80 from the one-eyed man ; but when the hunchback arrives, say Allah help us ! ” 6. Bukhti is the two-humped camel of Bac- tria. Ali is therefore the fellow’s name ; Bukhti his laqab or nickname — which none escape.
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The Pains and Pleasures of Redemption. 73 But thou art a fool, Habib : thou thoughtest that I was angry with thee. Never, by Allah ! Nor, though He plagueth His lovers, is He ever wroth against them. So eagerly did I kiss every red weal upon thy vel- vet buttocks that thou didst wish thy beating had been prolonged by a whole day. Also, for every peppercorn that did shoot from thy podex, thou hadst a balm. Wise art thou who badest me sell this my garden to buy more pepper therewithal.6 Repine not, therefore, O man ! at the chastise- ments of All…
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…om the starry womb, With standing member all aglow, purpled with cloth from Rapture’s loom. O tulip cheeks ! O lips of rose ! the joy of Allah ye assume, Rejoicing in the luscious play, the slippery splendour of the spume Cast from the holy hiding-place for ever till the day of doom. Rejoice, O podex, in thy strength ! thy spasms like the stars illume Earth’s darkness, life’s disgrace, abash the trifling terrors of the tomb. The nargis scent shall steal about the world, assuage its fret and fume,
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…ut a joke. The traveller, passing by the mere, Heeds not the frogs, but lets them croak. So in thy podex I delight, Nor heed at all what Allah spoke.2 While stands my member, blooms by rose, Wine I can drink, or huqqa3 smoke, So long I laugh at Aflatun, And fun at Aristu4 I poke. Thy buttocks with their splendid sun This joy in me have ever woke ; In rapture alway El Qahar His spirit is content to soak. 1. Pious folk — Wahhabi [Persian text] the Mus- lim strictarians. 2. Obscure. I doubt if the Q’uran forbids sodo- my. See Q’uran XV, where the …
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…hile I prayed, how kiss ? Adorable And perfect boy, thy podex serves alike My member both to challenge and to quell ! So say the Sufis ; Allah wakes desire For Him, and grants it, Life is like a shell That rouses echoes of some distant sea To Zahid-lubbers all innavigable ;