Al-Haq: truth, right, god...

Al-Haq

that which is truth

that which is one's right

Baba Bulleh Shah - a Sufi poet of the 17th century. Much of his work has been performed as song - check-out Rabbi Shergill's Bullah Ki Jaana - the following is a translation of this famous work.

I know not who I am.

I am neither a believer going to the mosque,

Nor given to non-believing ways,

Neither clean nor unclean,

Neither Moses nor Pharaoh,

I know not who I am.

I am neither among sinners nor among saints,

Neither happy nor unhappy,

I belong neither to water nor to earth,

I am neither fire nor air,

I know not who I am.

Neither do I know the secret of religion,

Nor am I born of Adam and Eve,

I have given myself no name,

I belong to neither those who squat and pray,

Nor to those who have gone astray,

I know not who I am.

I was in the beginning, I will be there in the end,

I know not any one but the One,

Who could be wiser than Bulleh Shah,

Whose Master is ever there to tend,

I know not who I am.

That's it for now...ciao, adios, au revoir...and remember...to be born again first you must die

~me