Labib Mahfuj Chisty
Beyond the seven stars of the heavens
More above, the temple of love in the high sky –
Where the nymphs are always coming and going!
That is where I was born. But this body –
Has imprisoned me in the captivity of this birth!
The body without feeling has been chained to the earth!
I am always restless in this inconsistency
of the above and the below.
Unknowingly, I search for an existence in between!
Because of the inconsistency of these two,
sometimes
I subconsciously create different forms.
Different destinations.
Oh, my eternal being
Not for a moment,
Hold me forever
Dissolve this small self of mine.
Be thou with me or I with thee.
Let all contradictions end.
Let all doubts end.
I am higher than the angels,
In the seven heavens, surrounded by the horizon,
My celestial temple is spread out on the great throne –
Yet I am also rooted in the seven layers of earth!
By overcoming this material ground of my body-centeredness,
Make me dwell in infinite emptiness, O Lord!
Mosques, temples, churches, pagodas
All are for the dead of the mortal world –
I want my living soul to be in the eternal sky, eternally,
To be filled with eternal bliss.
In that divine form, I will forever abide
I will dwell in you, becoming yours forever.
Labib Mahfuj Chisty
Date of writing – 12/12/2017