Break Your Fast with Joy, for the First Day of the Feast Has Come!! Columbus MPV Eid al Fitr Prayer and Feast July 6, 2016

Break Your Fast with Joy, for the First Day of the Feast Has Come!!
Columbus MPV Eid al Fitr Prayer and Feast
July 6, 2016

Do not despair, my soul, for hope has manifested itself;
the hope of every soul has arrived from the unseen.

Do not despair, though Mary has gone from your hands,
for that light which drew Jesus to heaven has come.

Do not despair, my soul, in the darkness of this prison,
for that king who redeemed Joseph from prison has come.

Jacob has come forth from the veil of occlusion,
Joseph who rent Zulaikha's veil has come.

You who all through night to dawn have been crying "O Lord,"
mercy has heard that "O Lord" and has come.

O pain which has grown old, rejoice, for the cure has come;
O fastened lock, open, for the key has come.

You who have abstained fasting from the Table on high,
break your fast with joy, for the first day of the feast has come.

Keep silence, keep silence, for by virtue of the command "Be!"
that silence of bewilderment has augmented beyond all speech.

-- Ghazal (Ode) 631*, from Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Translation and footnote by A.J. Arberry
"Mystical Poems of Rumi," 1968

 

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Eid Prayer at 12 noon, pot luck feast and zikr to follow
1000 Urlin  Avenue, apt 1809, Grandview Heights OH 43212
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