Friday, August 30, 2019

Sultan Bahu

1*"Ae tann mera chashma ho'wey
Maen murshid vekh na rajjaan hu

Loon loon de mud lakh lakh chashma
Hik kholaan, hik kajjaan hu

Itna dittheya sabar na aave
Hor kitey vall bhajjaan hu

Murshid da deedar hai Baahu
Mainnu lakh karordaan hajjaan hu"

(Were my whole body festooned with eyes, 
I would gaze at my Master with untiring zeal.

O, how I wish that every pore of my body Would turn into a million eyes – 
Then, as some closed to blink, others would open to see!

But even then my thirst to see him Might remain unquenched. 
What else am I to do?

To me, O Bahu, a glimpse of my Master is worth millions of pilgrimages to the holy Ka’ba!)

-Hazrat Sultan Bahu (Urs on 1st Moharram)