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LOVE IS AN EXALTED STATION

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Love is an exalted station,
Love is ancient and eternal,

If you speak of love your tongue is grace,

Your tongue is the voice of the All-powerful.

He is the One who speaks,

He is the One who hears,
He is the One who sees,

He is the one who lets us see,

He is the One who utters every word,

Our form is the house of the soul.

How does this form find words,

How can it be the master of language?

He has given form to speech,
He has given wisdom to the tongue.

To speak is our duty,
To speak is our intoxicated joy,

What we drank, what makes us drunk

Is sherbet, the sweet waters of love.

What you say belongs to Him,
He is the One who speaks, the words are His,
He is ours, we are His,
This worship of the tongue is different.

Even if you do not believe in God, you
Will find no lies in the things Yunus says,

If you throw your life away in the dark,

You lose the wisdom of the divine.

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