[Sunlight] "What is the Way?" -- Ghazal 374

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Someone asked, "What is the Way?" I said,
"This way is to abandon desires."
Oh lover of the King! Know that your way is to
seek the pleasure of that Generous Lord.
When you seek the Beloved's desire and
pleasure, seeking your own desire is forbidden.
The spirit will be totally transformed into love
for the Beloved, for the ascetic cell of the noble travelers is
Love.
His Love is not less than the top of some
mountain -- His Love's mountaintop is enough for me!
The cave where you can find the Friend is
Love -- then the spirit will gain the adornment of Love's
beauty.
Whatever purifies you is the correct road -- I will
not try to define it.
Be silent and hold fast to the shaykh-Love -- for
in the two worlds, he is your leader.

-- Ode 374
Translation by William C. Chittick
"The Sufi Path of Love"
SUNY Press, Albany, 1983

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[Sunlight] "What is the Way?" -- Ghazal 374