Meeting Him

Love for the physical is the means –
The needle cannot sew without thread.

Love of the form is a giver, a benefactor.
It brings the wealth of blissful rapture.
People in whose marrow love gets absorbed,
Die while they are still alive.

Love is our father. Love is our mother.
It brings joy. It gives ecstasy.
The body of the lover increasingly withers.
I stand under the shadow of the moon-like Beloved,
And watch the fair ones laugh heartily.…

It is indeed an open secret.
He sees his presence everywhere.
Bullah, the lover, is thus redeemed.
He who is mindful of his abode,
He gets salvation on meeting the Lord.
He peeps into his mind, his self,
Which transports him into the beatitude of bliss.

Love for the physical is the means –
The needle cannot sew without thread.
_{Bulleh Shah}