The Yellow Crocuses
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Topic: The Yellow Crocuses
Posted By: Murabit
Subject: The Yellow Crocuses
Date Posted: 13 January 2006 at 6:39pm
The Yellow Crocuses (Source: http://www.zaytuna.org/seasonsarticles.asp - Pir Sultan Abdal (Turkish, 16th century)
Translated by Abdal Hakim Murad
I asked the yellow crocuses
In wintertime where do you go?
What are you asking, dervish friend?
Under the ground is where we go.
I asked the yellow crocuses
Mother, father, have you none?
What are you asking, dervish friend?
Our mother�s the earth, and our father�s the rain.
I asked the yellow crocuses,
What do you eat beneath the ground?
What are you asking, dervish friend?
God made food beneath the ground.
I asked the yellow crocuses,
What has made your faces pale?
What are you asking, dervish friend?
Fear of God has turned us pale.
I asked the yellow crocuses
With their long staffs in their hands
With the Lord�s truth on their tongues,
In crocuses is dervishness.
Pir Sultan is what I�m called.
With greybeards from the times of old
Their faces heaven�s light enfold
In crocuses is dervishness.
Haqq la ilaha illa�Llah, Allah, la ilaha illa�Llah.
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"I am a slave. I eat as a slave eats and I sit as a slave sits.", Beloved, sallallahu alyhi wa-sallam.
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