Sami Yusuf - 'Asheqan

Sami Yusuf - 'Asheqan

From album 'Barakah'

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Dastgāh: Shūr (Avaz-e Abū ‘Aṭā)

Commentary: This beautiful piece comes from the Khanqahs (Sufi centers) of the Qadiriya-Talebani Tariqah in Kirkuk, Iraq. The original poem (“Mosalmanan”) was written in Persian approximately 200 years ago by Shaykh Abdul Rahman Khales

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Lyrics : Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Balkhi’s (“Rumi”) Divān-i Shams 

Melody : Traditional Islamic (from Kurdistan region)

Arrangement : Sami Yusuf

Mix : Vishnu Rajan

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Ey ‘Āsheqān, Ey ‘Āsheqān

Amad gahe waṣlo leqa

Az āsemān āmad nedā

Key mahrūyān aṣ-ṣalā

Ḥay Allāh, Hu Allāh, Yā Allāh

Ey sarkhoshān, Ey sarkhoshān

Amad ṭarab dāman keshan

Begrefte ma zanjīre ū

Begrefte ū dāmāne mā

Amad sharābe ātashīn

Ey Dīve gham konjī neshīn

Ey jane marg-andīsh ro

Ey sāqīye bāqī darā

Ey haft gardūn maste to

Mā mohreyi dar daste to

Ey haste mā az haste to

Dar ṣad hezārān marḥabā 

Ey bānge naye khosh-samar

Dar bānge to ṭa’me shekar

Āyad marā sham-o sahar

Az bānge to būye vafā

Bāre degar āghāz kon

Ān pardehā rā sāz kon

Bar jomle khūbān nāz kon

Ey Āftābe khosh leqā

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(O lovers, O lovers, the time of union and meeting has come
A calling from Heaven proclaimed, “Moon-faced ones, it is time to pray!”)

(O divinely intoxicated ones, the joyously whirling One has arrived;
The chains of His curls have captured us and the yearning of our hearts have captured Him)

(The fiery wine has come, demon of grief, off to a corner!
Leave O death-pondering soul, O immortal Saqi, come through!)

(O by whom the seven vaults are enraptured,
We are but a bead in your hands
Our being is by your being, a thousand hails!)

(Begin once more and tune those notes!
Display your charm to the good souls,
O fair-faced sun!)