God’s lovers employ various metaphors and symbolic actions to hide their love of the Divine– Jaihoon reveals some of their ‘cover-up games’ in these verses
My Vice Questions and Your Wise Response
Even as we feel pain over the belated reply, we shall remain persistent in our plea to the Most Merciful –– insists Jaihoon in this poetic discourse
I call You with so sweet a name
Can the Lover resist a reply when asked in the name of the Beloved— contents Mujeeb Jaihoon as he bargains by one Beautiful name after another
Ya Rabbana! Ya Rabbana!
We submit our faults in HIS presence from whom there is nothing to hide as we stand silent like a bride- Jaihoon on pleading to the Lord
A candle to kindle
Alas! No matter how severe is the winter/Your friend will say, ‘spring will one day enter’/A true friend is a Him-sent candle/For hope in His Mercy to kindle