The Diwan of Zeb-un-Nissa
Translated by Magan Lal and Jessie Duncan Westbrook
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The opening
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To Thee, first, From the clouds of Whose mercy is born The rose of my garden, I look! Let the praise of Thy love the beginning adorn Of the verse of my book.
Athirst For Thy love are my body and soul; Like Mansur the grains of this clod, My body, cry out—They are parts, Thou the whole, Themselves they are God.
The waves Of Thy deluge of love o’er the boat Of mortality roll; No Noah could lift from the deeps till it float My love-drowned soul.
As slaves The powers of the darkness for me Will obedient fly; If a word of my praise be accepted by Thee, Like Suleiman I.
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