Abu Zuhri New Encounter With Garcien de Tassy
My dear Eastern Asian Travelers,
others may be hard to perceive our path and masks,
let hears what JH Garcien de
Tassy who
Pen her kind words to us
today 30 Mac 2007 . She published the Book of Revelation
Of The Secrets Of The Birds
and Flowers in1821 .
Dedicated to Baron Silvestere
De Sacy, original Arabic text
by the Learned Sheikh Izzedin b.Abdas Salam d.1280
Translated by Irene Hoare and
Darya Galy. English and Arabic verification by
Al-arif Dr. A.Halim Abbassi,
D.Litt and MY.A.Shadhili. With a Preface by
Al-Hajj Anwar K
Winstone-Hamilton, 1980:
To test your wits, we cite
this passages.
Quick, don�t look West but within.
Grasp before
It wisdom fly away�.
EXCERPTS PAGE 31-32 � THE BIRD OF ATTAR
Look at my Falcon. See how Faithful
I am to the Rules of Silence.
What do I say .Merit for me
is the very Discretion of my Tongue.
My perfection of Observing my
Duties.
Though by Force I have been
Torn away from the Desert and
brought against my Will
to a Far off Land, never do
you find me Revealing
my deepest Thoughts.
Nor will you see me Weeping
over Remnants that
Remind me of a loved one.
Instruction is what I Seek
On my Journey. And I have
found fit for reward whenever
I have been put to test. For
according to Proverb,
It is Test that decides
whether someone is worth Honor
Or Contempt. When perceiving the Treachery of Time
And fearing that Hatred may
move me, my Master
Covers my eyes with the hood.
I understand his actions by
the Words :
�Do not extend your Sight.
Do not be Free with you Tongue.
Do not walk the Earth with petulance in your Step.�
When I have learned what is
deemed I need to now,
When I have come thru my Trials
and developed some Skill,
The my Master is Happy to use
me for the Hunt.
Delivering me from my Bonds, he throws me up,
Making the signal that
appears in the Quran, when
God said to the Prophet : �We
sent you..as Mercy to
All Worlds�. The Hood is only
removed from my
Eyes when I am Adept in
executing what
I been Taught; it is then
that Kings become my Servants
Ant their Wrists are Beneath
my proud Feet�.
I forbid my Tongue an excess of Speech
I forbid my eyes the
Spectacle of the World:
Menacing death, each day ever
Closer
Make me oblivious to the
Sweetness of Raptures.
My only concern is to make my
Manner of Princes
And to practice Noble Acts.
It is from the King�s wrist I take off
For my Flight; aiming for my Prey
I seize it at once in my Victorious
Talons
And am Ready, at the
slightest Sign
To return to Him who sent me.
My life should serve as a Guide for all those
Who would Bow to the Sacred
Laws
of Submission to Faith.
Praise be to God whose Remoteness is Nearness
Whose Nearness in Remoteness,
whose Greatness defies
Any manner of Description;
whose Sanctity so Sublime
Is Inestimatable, Limitless.
THE NARCISSUS
Anyone who gives himself to serious Thoughts,
And is Guided and sustained
by honest and
Pure intention, may come to Understand�.
May acquire the Knowledge,
may distinguish
True from false, Reality from
Error�
The mystic, filled with Gratitude
for all
The favors which he received,
prepares to
Dig deeper into the mine of Wisdom.
I ask God to bless and give
peace to
His Prophet to whom He
vouchsafed
A Revelation to blaze out His
glory
And whom He guided across the
celestial spheres..
May God�s mercy and favor
rest forever on
This Messenger, his Companions
and his Descendants.
So that a few drops of blessing
and illumination may
..touched all eastern travel companions of today as well
TREASURE TO MY FRIENDS
Whoever enters the spirit of my interpretations
And understands my parables
will derive
Pleasure from my book;
whoever finds them
Alien will gain nothing..truth
melted into fiction or opposite way.
I open my treasures to my friends and
Weep my pain to those who
suffer the same grief.
My Jasmine then said this:
Despair is an error.
Let humility itself speaks.
Never waver.
Whose perfume is this .
.that we all inhale subtly...
By the bamboo brush pen of seeker abuzuhri shin
Western lake, putrajaya mountain
South of kuala Lumpur Titiwangsa Range
April 2007 early Spring�
------------- abuzuhri shin
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