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"Afghani"
RELIGION AND COUNTRY
| The Lord of the West, cunning from head to toe, | |
| taught the people of religion the concept of Country. | |
| He thinks of the centre, while you are at discord— | 1035 |
| give up this talk of Syria, Palestine, Iraq! | |
| If you can discriminate between good and evil | |
| you will not bind your hearts to clods, stones, bricks. | |
| What is religion? To rise up from the face of the dust | |
| so that the pure soul may become aware of itself! | 1040 |
| He who has said ‘God is He’ is not contained | |
| within the confines of this dimensioned order. | |
| A grass-blade is of the earth, and yet rises from the earth; | |
| alas, if the pure soul should die in the dust! | |
| Although man sprang out of water and clay, | 1045 |
| from water and clay rose-like drew colour and sap, | |
| alas, if he wanders forever in water and clay, | |
| alas, if he soars not higher than this station! | |
| The body says, ‘Go into the dust of the roadway’; | |
| the soul says, ‘Look upon the expanse of the world!’ | 1050 |
| Man of reason, the soul is not contained in dimensions; | |
| the free man is a stranger to every fetter and chain, | |
| the free man rails against the dark earth | |
| for it beseems not the falcon to act like a mouse. | |
| This handful of earth to which you give the name ‘country’, | 1055 |
| this so-called Egypt, and Iran, and Yemen— | |
| there is a relationship between a country and its people | |
| in that it is out of its soil that a nation rises; | |
| but if you look carefully at this relationship | |
| you will descry a subtlety finer than a hair. | 1060 |
| Though it is out of the East that the sun rises | |
| showing itself bold and bright, without a veil, | |
| only then it burns and blazes with inward fire | |
| when it escapes from the shackles of East and West; | |
| drunk with splendour it springs up out of its East | 1065 |
| that it may subject all horizons to its mastery; | |
| its nature is innocent of both East and West, | |
| though relationship-wise, true, it is an Easterner. |
