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I knew God well when love flashed before me

by Sultan Bahu
(1628 - 1691) Timeline

English version by
Jamal Elias

Original Language
Punjabi
Muslim / Sufi
17th Century

I knew God well when love flashed before me.
It gives me strength by night and day, and shows what lies ahead.
In me are flames, in me is fuel, in me is smoke.
I only found my Beloved, Bahu, when love made me aware.

 

 

-- from Death Before Dying: Sufi Poetry of Sultan Bahu, by Sultan Bahu / Translated by Jamal Elias

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Themes

  Fire
  Lover and Beloved
  Night
 
 


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Death Before Dying: Sufi Poetry of Sultan Bahu, by Sultan Bahu / Translated by Jamal Elias

 

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