Abdul-Qādir Bedil

Beauty, which the mirror of creation was beautifying,
with a hundred thousand suns each atom caressing.

Mirza Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Mawlānā Abul-Ma'ālī Mīrzā Abdul-Qādir Bēdil (or Bīdel), also known as Bīdel Dehlavī (1644– 5 December 1720), was a Sufi saint and a remarkable poet from the Indian subcontinent.

Quotes

Rubaʿiyat (Quatrains)

Stanza

• It's in your nature to accept advice readily
  so don't fail in reaping benefit through me,
  This collection of our thought is open to all:
  so, read it and satisfy yourself completely.
  • Bedil: Selected Poems, p. 53

Stanza

• Beauty, which the mirror of creation was beautifying,
  with a hundred thousand suns each atom caressing,
  despite its great glory was behind the unseen's veil...
  it did not know itself until humanity was blossoming.
  • Bedil: Selected Poems, p. 59

Stanza

• In this sea where rise up storms of 'me' and 'we',
  some of the population find escaping not so easy.
  No one's should be burdened by carrying another,
  every wave is a bridge, to be crossing over...'me'.
  • Bedil: Selected Poems, p. 62

External links

• Bedil: Selected Poems, translated by Paul Smith, Victoria (Australia), 2006