I Repeat What God Speaks Poem by Mohammad Younus

Love is not a thing to be bought and sold...
...at a marketplace;
Its real value none else but a lover can know;
Worthless is a man who for worldly gains...
...lets his Love go;
A worldly wise man doesn't know...
...the true value of love, and its significance;
...
Love's secret no one knows but...
...the person who is in love;
Can a man not ready to make sacrifices...
...love's secret ever know?
That person is a double-dealer...
...who professes to love God...
....while he is attached to...
...the glamour of the world;
Do not trust his claims, and...
...do not heed his tales of woe!
If a lover does not forsake the fleeting..
...pleasures of the worldly life...
...he will die an ignominious death;
Never-ending is the curse that...
...God sends on him;
The lovers tie the Love's noose...
...round their neck and proclaim...
...like Mansur:
'I am the truth! I am the truth! '
They as such gain a haven in God's presence;
That He has reserved for martyrs to his love!
The ascetics repeat on their rosaries:
'There is no God but He! '
(La illaha illa hu!)
But to me, my sweet soul repeats...
...what my beloved speaks in its ear:
I am the truth! I am the truth!

MyKoul