Sh. Nuh Keller sings Ode of al-Shaghouri

After coming out of spiritual retreat, Abd al-Rahman Shaghouri (the famous Syrian scholar of the 20th century), composed this poem describing his experience and spiritual state. This is sung by Shaykh Nuh Ha Meem Keller at Harvard in the Moroccan way.

ENGLISH:
There is no deity but Allah!
The curtains of 'between' have been lifted
And the lights of Oneness have appeared;
Disclosed without any 'where',
So see them, O Sufis!
There is no deity but Allah!

I am the mirror of my Beloved.
In His love, O my spirit, grow well;
From other than Him, O self, be absent,
And cast aside all things vile.
There is no diety but Allah!

Since He has been manifest in these places of vision.
Have I been bowing and prostrate;
Thinking Him and praising.
For He has encompassed me in identity.
There is no deity but Allah!

O the wonderfulness of my encounter
O my subsistence in my annihilation
O the light of my empyrean
O my life forever and ever.
There is no deity but Allah!

The pourer has drawn near to us
And presented us the goblet;
We have sipped and drunk our fill,
From the cups of al-Hashimi
There is no deity but Allah!

My friend, seize the chance to live,
How many a corpse that came to them was revived;
Never shall anyone be disappointed, never,
Who comes with a true intention.
There is no deity but Allah!

Clear your heart for the Divine manifestation,
Open your eye from true joy;
Other than the Divine, my friend, abandon,
And be annihilated in the exalted Entity.
There is no deity but Allah!

Drink heartily from the goblet openly,
See no disgrace in drinking;
Go mad with love, and throw off all shame
In the most sacred meanings.
There is no deity but Allah!

Speed with might and main to the stations,
Following the way of the earliest ones;
Heed not the words of him who forbids your love,
Listening is but tribulation.
There is no deity but Allah!

It is the all in all in origin,
Those who would prevent love have no action;
The forbidding of love is naught but,
Sent from the Bestower of Gifts.
There is no deity but Allah!

Then shower blessings, O You of Majesty,
Upon the Door of Connectedness;
Taha [the Prophet Muhammad], with Companions and folk,
Long as the camelteer may chant to spur his mount.
There is no deity but Allah!