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…d 1001 times nightly for a number of nights not stated. Very probable. The concealed Word is only the common : [Persian text] “ Glory to God and Praise to God ! There is no God but God. Great is He, and protecteth us ; there is no might save in Him, the Exalted One.” 4. The “ Heart of the Q’uran ” ; one of it holiest chapters, recited or read to all good Muslim at the point of death, whenever possible. 5. Musalla, near Shiraz ; as Richmond, near London ; or the Cafe d’Hermenonville, near Paris. 6. Azrael — the angel of death. 7. Arafat — the ho…
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…don’t you know ? But we think what we think, don’t you know ? While your admiring friends openly boast of you as a dam clever bugger, by God ! He had half the boys in London, and when they started to black- mail him, he turned right round like that (gesture) before you could say “ knife ”, by God ! and didn’t they get beans, by God ! But could I fight an English election ? How would my chiefs in the army look at it, when it came to the actual point of choosing one of two men for promotion ? What price that fat tutor- ship ? There are dozens of …
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… 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 is (ac- cording to Mahbub) a mystic truth con- cealed. Arithmetic like all sciences was at one time considered magical by the vulgar ; to this day t…
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…“ Mullah ” — a difference of only one letter. 3. The bowl of the pipe of the sphere of the hea- vens ; the tobacco is the benevolence of God : the live coal His glory and desire toward man : the wa- ter in the bowl is the veil which prevents man be- ing burnt up in that glory, and the purifying influ- ence of calm upon the soul ; the smoke is the per- fume of the Spirit of God ; the tube is the Influence (Heb. Mezla) from on high ; the mouthpiece the love of one’s earthly teacher ; (This sounds as though Sufi confessors shared the predilections…
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…st drive us to as- sume a mystical sense for these writings. 16. Hua — He. But it is further the true 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] ha…
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God’s constant affection. 89 XXI THE LOVE POTION Whoso hath fair Habib to sing and play1 May scoff at all the jinseng of Cathay.2 That naked podex knows a sacred spell To exorcise the Jinn that bring decay. One glance, one touch, and acorn springs to oak— God sees the daystar, and invokes the day. If Suleiman3 with all his concubines From dusk to dawn consecutively lay, Yet at thy buttock’s velvet, O Habib, That man would rise erect from mudded clay. Bid thou the Qazi to thine house ; I ween That he would sprout a member on the way. Or didst th…
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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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…ocks are now public, like a serai ; while before they were private, like a harem. 4. From the Q’uran. But possibly a threat, equalling “ God may forgive you, but I never will ”, as our demi-virgin Astraea Redux told the trea- cherous Countess.
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…desire. My member is the guide of thy podex, never leav- ing it for a moment ; patient is he, eternally toiling therein15 ; for Hua16 is God, and His Name is Un- known, like all things save Himself only, assuaging thy desire.
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The Peace, the Jealousy, and the Ecstasy of God. 83 6. For the use of the refrain the reader may consult any manual on Persian prosody. El Haji has made several innovations. 7. How beautiful and touching are these si- miles ! No artifice, so straining of the metaphor is involved ; the poet rests in calm and beatific certi- tude of “ a good death, and a joyful resurrection in His holy kingdom ! ” Yet there is no false piety, no arrogance ; and like every straight-living man, he is capable of honest laughter, almost in the same breath.
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…re spent in sunny gardens and yours in sub- terranean sewers ; we are so blissful that we rarely notice you ; when we do, it is to say : God have mercy upon these blind and miserable slaves, and bring them out into His light and joy and liberty ! Wherefore I pray Him (Oh thou all-loving, all transcending God !) that should this essay fall (as seed by the wayside) into the hands of the young that they may dwell with us in the Heaven which is Here and Now, and (after) in the Palace which of His lovingkindness He hath prepared for us in that Garde…
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90 God’s constant affection. 2. Chob-chini, wood of China, a root highly re- puted as an aphrodisiac. In China the jinseng of Sze-chuan and Korea is most esteemed. That of America is not so good, in the fatherland-dizzied eyes of the Celestial. [See note to IXth Ghazal. Ed.] 3. Suleiman — our King Solomon, as historical as King Brahmadatta, who reigned 120,000 years in Benares. 4. Isa — Jesus. Muslim hold that a phantom was crucified in the place of Jesus. See Q’uran III. 5. Gold — noon, not sunrise, or sunset, whose colours are rose and grey. …
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…is law. Ed. 9. Besides all this, there is the question of “ na- ture ” and “ against nature.” “ Praise Lacedaemon, and despise Corinth ! God gave me Daphne ; I won Hyacinth.” All our modern devices, though applications of na- ture, are against and above nature ; therefore of God. Nature’s man is the cave-man. We take no paternal pride in the pariah dog, the product of Nature ; in the highly bred setter, the product of man’s genius applied to nature’s very raw material, through centuries and chiliads of struggle, we do. There is no poetry in the…
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… sodomy duly done, even more than in the rites of heterosexual passion, lies the great secret of the Universe, the Key of the Gardens of God..... But I must not proselytize : many are called, but few chosen ; a sodomite is born, not made ; you can’t make a silk sodomite out of an English groc- er’s boy ; one sodomite doesn’t make a scan- dal ; take care of the boys, and the girls will take care of themselves ; strike while the tool is hot ; don’t bugger in haste, or withdraw at lei- sure ; a turd in the hand is worth two in the bush ; a prick i…
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…escriptions against impotence, pregnancy, and the like. 2. St. Augustine can find no better symbols than El Haji to express his love for God. “ What is it then, that I love, O my God, when I love you ? It is not beauty of bodies, nor the glory which passes, nor the light which our eyes love ; it is not the va- ried harmony of sweet songs nor the aroma of per- fumes and sweet flowers, nor the voluptuous joys of carnal embraces. No, it is more than these that
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…r Lord Jesus, the lover of John the beautiful, into a world where erectio pe- nis shall be the rule and not the exception. Where, please God, we shall all be Sapphists and Sodo- mites, joined each to each in one incredible spinth- ria, with the extreme orgasm (which is the Holy Ghost) abiding upon us and within us for ever and ever. Shall I find you there, my lost darling ? As I pass from the swoon of death to feel the fresh wind of Heaven blowing on my cheek, shall I find you first to meet me in those Elysian glades ? “ In what etherial dances…
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The Unity of God. 53 ken of in the Oracles of Zoroaster as “ Intelligibles ”, “ Empyrean Rulers ” ; in short, Viceroys of the De- miourgos. They are the Mahayana “ Dhyana- Buddhas ” and the modern planetary gods Arathron, Bethor, Phaleg, Och, Hagith, Ophiel, Phul. The curious may consult Cornelius Agrippa for further details. 2. A common expression of surprise or shock. In such a connection it here becomes (to the Per- sian mind, at least) intensely ludicrious. As in the story of the King who climbed the wall (in the other “ Scented Garden ”. E…
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…seek it in the cloister.11 I loved you al- ways ; it was but a boy’s folly ; forgive me ! I may never cling to you on earth again : pray God that Heaven may be one long, long life of such bliss as we had of one another long ago by yon slow stream on whose banks I have wandered (many a time since) crying like a lost soul concerning you in the words of Milton lamenting his beauteous- buttocked Lycidas “ Oh ! who hath reft my dearest pledge ? ” Alas ! neither Fate nor God could I ac- cuse : the dread hollow voice of my own stricken soul answered m…
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…bdullah no doubt considered that the specific differences between man and woman vitiated the symbol, since man is formed in the image of God, and in Muslim theology is not supposed to have forfeited the same. It may here be remarked (as a bulwark to this contention) that el Haji is conspicuous — in fact, incurs reproach in consequence — for his in- novation in the matter of scientific precision. Hafiz uses his symbols vaguely : the tresses of his mi- stress are no doubt the Glories of God, but they are also at times the rays of the sun, the ver…
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…e to believe.” The ass trots off, all on fire, but suddenly falls headlong into a deep pit. He is about to bear witness that there is no God but God, and Mo- hammed is his prophet (i.e. about to resign himself to death), when he is lifted out by a woman’s hand and set on solid earth again. “ O ass ! how dost thou dare awaken Ayeshah the promised wife of the Prophet of Allah ? ” “ O Ayeshah ! I met a cer- tain dog, who bore witness that thou wast tighter than it is possible to believe, the liar ! ” “ Verily, o ass, but Omar hath passed by since …