Lights of Irfán, Vol. 16 · pp. 223–272
Sáqí, bi-dih ábí O Cup-Bearer, give me a drop: A hymn to love offered by the Blessed Beauty
Centre for Bahá'í Studies, Acuto, Italy · June 30–July 3, 2014
Abstract
This is one among eight Persian poems Bahá'u'lláh signed "Dervish." They were most probably written in Kurdistan, where Bahá'u'lláh remained from 10 April 1854 to 19 March 1856. It is a ghazal, meaning a mystical "song" or "elegy of love" about The Beloved, being God or His representative on earth. See also the author's translation of the quasidih "At Dawn the Friend came to my bed": An early fruit of the Supreme Pen.
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