Ali Rıza & Hüseyin Albayrak - Elif-Mim

Yöre: Tokat-Zile Söz: Virâni (16.yy.) - Malatyalı Sâdık Baba (1771-1837) Müzik: Âşık Sâdık Doğanay (1933-1979) İntro: Ali Rıza Albayrak Derleyen: Hüseyin Albayrak-Ali Rıza Albayrak Perküsyon: Ömer Avcı From elif and mim we gathered the secrets of the Koran We mystified mim within se From two dots and three letters (Ali) came ba We mystified ba within se We have become one with the divine essence Show me the path, the truth my saint We found devotion in a sea of profanity Profanity became the truth within faith Thirty three letters are the completion of the letters From one elif and mim we have found ayn From the prophet Seth we have gathered kaf and nun We have fallen in love with the beloved within love From those who have teached salvation came a sister With a goblet of the divine wine of the forty saints in her hand All kneeled before the sister We called the sister shah within shah They named the sister Fatima They accepted the heavens and earth as present in he Selman brought grapes and they were crushed We were submerged in the water of the grapes within divinity Virani speak your words wisely Do not seek heights soar shallow Be wise and gaze at the garden of your beloved We have fallen for a rose within a rose Those that are wise build and repair hearts Our foes wonder in the sacred city as well Those who are one with god find ecstasy in his light The blind that look shout that we are insane My soul has joined the rowof the desolate With joy and sorrow in my heart Sadik says this heart of mine endeavours to gaze at your divinty For devotion is above all else