
Ghazal 1700
The world captured my light, look into my eyes,They named me “Baha”, though I am indeed precious.No one has tasted this food, nor taken a
“O You who are hidden within the hidden being of my existence.” ~Rumi
Compiled and written by: Nātiq Khamūsh (The Silent Speaker)
If you are freed from worldly attachments yet hear the unspoken secret,
Tell me: what was the inner sign of that Silent Speaker?
And if, like Jonah, you were freed from the prison of fish and sea,
Tell me—what was the meaning of that sea, its waves, and its raging?

The world captured my light, look into my eyes,They named me “Baha”, though I am indeed precious.No one has tasted this food, nor taken a

This beautiful ghazal alludes to the advent of the Blessed Beauty and celebrates the declaration of His Mission within its verses. The King has arrived,

Here, Rumi gives glad-tidings of the advent of the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh, who come together. If the soul of the lover breathes even once,it will

Depart, O sorrow, from the breast, for the Beloved’s grace is coming;And you too, O heart, be lost to me, for that Heart-ravisher is coming.

Today a new upheaval has arrived;it has drawn after it the chains of a thousand hearts. Today a new religion has appeared, and the thousand-year