{"id":1214,"date":"2013-01-06T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/?page_id=1214"},"modified":"2015-10-22T00:29:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T22:29:59","slug":"my-heart-burned-my-chest-was-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/my-heart-burned-my-chest-was-in-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"My heart burned, my chest was in flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My heart burned, my chest was in flames;<br \/>\nMy lungs, like roast meat, were ablaze.<br \/>\nFor all this suffering of mine<br \/>\nThe lovers&#8217; sweet drinks were the cause.<\/p>\n<p>There are those who forge love anew<br \/>\nAnd those who make it go askew;<br \/>\nSome walk around drunk through and through.<br \/>\nThose remain in ruins always.<\/p>\n<p>The pen writes with strokes full of love<br \/>\nTo which the world is a captive;<br \/>\nEven Archangel Gabriel<br \/>\nStands as a veil between lovers.<\/p>\n<p>At religious schools, no master<br \/>\nManaged to study this chapter;<br \/>\nThose professors failed to explain<br \/>\nThe essence of that advanced phase.<\/p>\n<p>The Angel of Death pressed his case;<br \/>\nAll his claims turned out to be lies.<br \/>\nWhoever commits perjury<br \/>\nWill suffer the rest of his days.<\/p>\n<p>Lovers challenge death to transmute;<br \/>\nTheir circle of trance can&#8217;t go mute;<br \/>\nThey revel in their harp and lute<br \/>\nAs their ensemble joyfully plays.<\/p>\n<p>Yunus, come, join the mystics&#8217; corps,<br \/>\nServe as their slave down to the core,<br \/>\nBecause it is Allah who yearns for<br \/>\nThe masters of the mystic ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My heart burned, my chest was in flames; My lungs, like roast meat, were ablaze. For all this suffering of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":27,"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-1214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214","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=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifai.org\/sufism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}