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Kulama By Ensemble Ibn Arabi

No Cure for Passion!

When I say my heart's fire
will be cool by love contact,

Intimacy arouses my desire.
It is the state of lover in fact.

Neither by touching I console,
nor by leaving do I forget

For God reward, give up your soul.
No cure for passion could be get.


I yield myself to love trial.
Heavenly, earthly to it I bend

Nothing is left but self-denial.
How nice if love would be my end!

I accept death I do no strife;
It is the state of lover in fact

O my love, by your life!
By your life, O my love!

Feel for me and heed please.
You know how it is deep in here.

You are my cure and sweet disease.
Have mercy on me, O healer dear!

O my love, by your life!
By your life, O my love!

Salma
 

The Poetry By Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari (D1269); an Andalusian Sufi poet

Performance by Ensemble Ibn Arabi

Poetic Translation by Salma Al-Helali

Literal Translation By Salma Al-Helali

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