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Abstract: A ghazal, a mystical song of love about The Beloved, meaning God or a Manifestation. One of eight Persian poems Bahá'u'lláh signed "Dervish" and revealed in Kurdistan, circa 1854-1856. Notes: Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #125, Acuto, Italy (2014). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/125/savi_cup-bearer. See also the author's translation of the quasidih "At Dawn the Friend came to my bed”: An early fruit of the Supreme Pen. |
A Hymn to Love (Sáqí, bi-dih ábí)
by Julio Savi
published in Lights of Irfan, 16, pages 223-272Wilmette: Haj Mehdi Armand Colloquium, 2015
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.
Download: lights16_savi_hymn_love.pdf.
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