Thou Art My Salvation
Thou art my salvation and freedom is mine,
I am not, I melt as a pearl in sweet wine!
My heart, soul, and self, yea, all these are thine;
O Lord I have no more to offer!
I drink of the nectar of truth the divine,
As Moses thy word, as Yusuf they shine
who walk in thy ways; and Christ is thy sign:
Thou raisest to life everlasting!
Thou art as Muhammad to them that repine,
My spirit is purged as the gold from a mine!
I only know that my heart beats with thine,
And joys in boundless freedom!
Web Source: Sufi Order
Note: The quotation is from Regina Miriam Bloch, The Confessions of Inayat Khan (London: The Sufi Publishing Company Ltd., 1915), pp. 38-42, with minor adjustments. For more on Hazrat Inayat Khan's Chishti heritage, see Pirzade Zia Inayat Khan, "The "Silsila-i Sufian": From Khwaja Mu‘in al-Din Chishti to Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani," in A Pearl in Wine: Essays in the Life, Music and Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan (New Lebanon: Omega Publications, 2001), pp. 267-322.
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