OEM

He came to know Himself
Naught else had He in view
To be able to realize this
He got enmeshed in love

He alighted from high heaven
To pour a cascade of love
Became Mansur to mount the gallows
Just to have His head cut off.

He treated the bazaars of Egypt
Just to be sold for a slave
Sachu speaks the bare Truth
To speak of His sojourn on earth

Theme

One who knows himself and knows also that he is a wonderful thing created by the Creator, God, cannot have a view of anything else except God Almighty. He starts loving Him, Who blesses him with great love. In such state of affairs every other thing become useless and like Mansur, he feels pleased ans is willing to be hanged on the gallows to get his head cut off only for the love his beloved, God. The poet thinks that a person’s stay on earth is temporary. It is better for a man to have been loved. The union of a soul with another soul through the chemistry of love is the highest mystic Truth.