Friday, June 14, 2019

Couplet 391-392

نے چنیں حیراں کہ پشتش سوئے اوست

They are not astonished that their back is towards Him

بل چنیں حیراں کہ رو در روئے اوست

Rather astonished in a way facing Him


آں یکے را روئے اوشد سوئے دوست


His one face is towards the Friend

ویں یکے را   روئے  او خود روئے اوست

And his own face is the face of Friend





                        What we have said above about the Gnostics that they are astonished but not to a kind of a person who has back towards the Friend i.e. unaware and veiled of Allah Ta’ala. Rather their astonishment is that they are absorbed and intoxicated in knowing of Allah Ta’ala. The idea is that their astonishment is likeable (محمودہ) and not the blameworthy (مذمومہ) and then he states two stages of the likeable astonishment. The one is that in which his attention is towards the Friend (i.e. Allah Ta’ala) and the second is that wherein his attention is actually the attention of the Friend. The meaning is that in some cases of likeable astonishment, people feel less absorbed, as they do not become unaware of themselves and also attention is there towards Allah Ta’ala and the second is that where they are so absorbed that their attribute of attention will be no more and instead assimilated in the attention۔ of Allah Ta’ala, as obviously in the condition of unawareness, nothing is in the zone of awareness.

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