{"id":1140,"date":"2013-01-03T02:11:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T00:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/?page_id=1140"},"modified":"2013-01-03T02:11:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T00:11:06","slug":"i-am-before-i-am-after","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/english\/hazrats\/hazrat-yunus-emre\/i-am-before-i-am-after\/","title":{"rendered":"I am before, I am after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am before, I am after<br \/>\nThe soul for all souls all the way.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m the one with a helping hand<br \/>\nReady for those gone wild, astray.<\/p>\n<p>I made the ground flat where it lies,<br \/>\nOn it I had those mountains rise,<br \/>\nI designed the vault of the shies,<br \/>\nFor I hold all things in my sway.<\/p>\n<p>To countless lovers I have been<br \/>\nA guide for faith and religion.<br \/>\nI am sacrilege in men&#8217;s hearts<br \/>\nAlso the true faith and Islam&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n<p>I make men love peace and unite;<br \/>\nPutting down the black words on white,<br \/>\nI wrote the four holy books right<br \/>\nI&#8217;m the Koran for those who pray.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not Yunus who says all this:<br \/>\nIt speaks its own realities:<br \/>\nTo doubt this would be blasphemous:<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m before-I&#8217;m after,&#8221; I say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am before, I am after The soul for all souls all the way. I&#8217;m the one with a helping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1116,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-yunusemre-poem.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1140\/revisions\/1141"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}