{"id":5998,"date":"2018-02-02T10:09:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T17:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/?p=5998"},"modified":"2018-02-02T10:09:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T17:09:22","slug":"gharib-nawaz-the-second-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/02\/gharib-nawaz-the-second-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghraib Nawaz – The Second Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Second Jesus
\nby Gharib Nawaz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

English version by Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nasrollah Pourjavady<\/font><\/p>\n

O Lord, it\u2019s me: blanked out in divine light
\nand become a horizon of rays flashing from the Essence.<\/p>\n

My every atom yearned for vision
\ntill I fell drunk on the manifestations of lordship.<\/p>\n

Love polished the rust from my heart\u2019s mirror
\ntill I began to see the mysteries;<\/p>\n

I emerged from the darkness of my existence
\nand became what I am (you know me) from the Light of Being:<\/p>\n

blackened like charcoal dark soul\u2019s smoke
\nbut mixed with love fires and illumined.<\/p>\n

Some say the path is difficult;
\nGod forgive them! I went so easily:<\/p>\n

The Holy Spirit breathes his every breath into Mo\u2019in\u2013
\nwho knows? Maybe I\u2019m the second Jesus.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a> \u2014 from The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry<\/a>, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson \/ Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady<\/font><\/p>\n


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I love the phrase in which the poet describes himself as being \u201cblanked in divine light.\u201d This beautifully describes the loss of the ego self, the loss of the separate self. Instead we perceive ourselves as a point of awareness within a vast living radiance.<\/p>\n

Another great line:<\/p>\n

Some say the path is difficult;
\nGod forgive them! I went so easily.<\/i><\/p>\n

This reflects the sense that true spiritual striving must be crushingly difficult, and sometimes too vague to even comprehend. Yet, the sacred experience reveals itself as our natural state, effortless. In fact, effort implies that we are trying to attain something we don\u2019t already have, making it even harder to recognize the state as being already present. We just have to get out of the way of the truth that is already present. That is all. We just make it seem difficult.<\/p>\n

who knows? Maybe I\u2019m the second Jesus.<\/i><\/p>\n

Some Christians may be troubled by this final line. It is certainly provocative, but not necessarily intended to be blasphemous or offensive. Devout Muslims greatly revere the figure of Jesus but not in the absolute and iconic way that Christians do. In Muslim traditions, Jesus is often associated with the breath of God. This is why the reference to Jesus follows the recognition that the breath of the Holy Spirit flows uninhibited through him. That breath is there, so is Jesus. Gharib Nawaz is reveling in the giddy recognition of oneness with that subtle divine flowing Presence \u2014 the same as in Jesus, the same as in all of us. <\/p>\n

Who knows, maybe we are all the second Jesus?<\/p>\n


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<\/a>Recommended Books: Gharib Nawaz<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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Khwaja Mu\u2019in\u2019ud-Din Chisti, called Hazrat Gharib Nawaz (which means \u201cHelper of the Poor\u201d), was born in Persia (Iran). The dates of his birth and death are uncertain, but he probably lived from the mid 12th to the mid 13th century.<\/p>\n

Gharib Nawaz studied traditional sciences and taught at the important Islamic universities of Bhukhara and Samarkand. He, however, yearned for a deeper, inner knowing and became a devoted student of a Chisti Sufi master from Nishapur. He studied with this master for twenty years, traveling with him throughout Central Asia and Arabia, conversing with many of the important Sufi figures of their day.<\/p>\n

After going on pilgrimage to Mecca, Gharib Nawaz felt called to bring his teachings to India. He spent forty days in spiritual retreat at the tomb of a Sufi saint in Lahore, and then began his travels through India and drew an enormous following. As a mark of his influence, today the Chishti order is no longer numerous in Iran, but it is the most widespread Sufi order in India.<\/p>\n

Hazrat Gharib Nawaz eventually became the eighth head of the Chishti order.<\/p>\n

Gharib Nawaz died and was buried at Ajmer in India. His tomb has become an important pilgrimage spot for both Muslims and Hindus in India. It is sometimes even referred to as \u201cthe Mecca of India.\u201d<\/p>\n

More poetry by Gharib Nawaz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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