{"id":1178,"date":"2013-01-06T15:54:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T13:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/?page_id=1178"},"modified":"2013-01-06T15:54:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T13:54:44","slug":"dear-friend-let-me-plunge-in-the-sea-of-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/english\/hazrats\/hazrat-yunus-emre\/dear-friend-let-me-plunge-in-the-sea-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Friend, let me plunge in the sea of love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friend, let me plunge in the sea of love,<br \/>\nLet me sink into that sea and walk on.<br \/>\nLet both worlds become my sphere where I can<br \/>\nDelight in the mystic glee and walk on.<\/p>\n<p>Let me become the nightingale that sings<br \/>\nA soul freed from the dead body&#8217;s yearnings;<br \/>\nLet me bury my head in my two Hands,<br \/>\nTake the path to unity and walk on.<\/p>\n<p>Thank heaven, I saw the Friend&#8217;s lovely face<br \/>\nAnd drank the wine of the lovers embrace.<br \/>\nIt severs me from you-it&#8217;s a disgrace<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll abandon this city and walk on.<\/p>\n<p>Yunus drifts in the throes of love&#8217;s torture:<br \/>\nOf all woes, his is the worst to endure.<br \/>\nFor my distress only you hold the cure,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll ash for that remedy and walk on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friend, let me plunge in the sea of love, Let me sink into that sea and walk on. Let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1116,"menu_order":12,"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-1178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1178","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=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1178\/revisions\/1179"}],"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=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}