This not my body, this is the sacred Temple of God. I am a soul in human existence in this temporal body. After all, the love for another human being is subset of, and pointer to Divine Love. This is the celebration and glorification of Fana fi Shaykh or merging in the image of one's Spiritual Teacher which is equivalent of the Teacher's arrival within the humanness of the disciple.Īnd the last level of meaning is celebration of love from one lover for his or her beloved and the joy expressed for his or her presence. The song from that point of view, celebrates the beauty and presence of the Spiritual Teacher and his arrival.
This song was written by Hazrat Amir Khusrow who was a devout disciple of Great Saint, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya.
Also it speaks of the bewilderment of mystic lovers of God in the Majestic Presence and how the Presence or absence of God makes everything or nothing for Divine lovers.īut in another level of meaning, the song could also be interpreted as a dedication to one's spiritual Master or Khwaja, Murshid, Rabboni. The realization and discovery of God's Presence in Heart is likened with homecoming of the Great Beloved. The song speaks of the arrival of the Divine Presence in the Temple of Heart, which is the Throne of God. Watch and listen to this Sufi Masterpiece via Youtube here. One of the most popular Sufi Song (original lyrics by Hazrat Amir Khusrow), a new rendition is done by Ustad Rashid Khan. Has made this courtyard so perfectly blessed. Since Song officials changed the basis for the Imperial examination from mastering poetry to jingyi (經義/经义 "expounding on a classical quotation"), literati no longer studied the lyrical names for plants and animals.Has made this courtyard so perfectly blessedįor accepting at His feet, this unworthy self of mineĪnd the spring that is spent without the Beloved, The preface explains Lu's motives for defining flora and fauna terminology. The only exceptions are Chapter 5 ("Explaining Horses") that is contained in Erya 19 ("Explaining Domestic Animals") and Chapter 8 ("Explaining Heaven") that anomalously corresponds with the first part of the Erya. Although the Piya preface written by his son Lu Zai (陸宰/陆宰) is dated 1125, the dictionary was written earlier estimates around the Yuanfeng era (元豐, 1078–1085), and Joseph Needham says around 1096.Lu Dian arranged the Piya into 8 semantically based chapters that closely correspond with the last Erya chapters 13-19.
He wrote this Erya supplement along with his Erya Xinyi (爾雅新義 "New Exegesis of the Erya") commentary.
The Piya (Chinese: 埤雅 pinyin: Píyǎ Wade–Giles: P'i-ya "Increased ya") was a Chinese dictionary compiled by Song Dynasty scholar Lu Dian (陸佃/陆佃, 1042-1102). Wikipedia (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:
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