El zahir / fenryl.de

Ya no percibiré el universo, percibiré el Zahir. Según la doctrina idealista, los verbos vivir y soñar son rigurosamente sinónimos; de miles de apariencias pasaré a una; de un sueño muy complejo a unsueño muy simple. Otros soñarán que estoy loco y yo con el Zahir. Cuando todos los hombres de la tierra piensen, día y noche, en el Zahir, ¿cuál será un sueño y cuál una realdad, la tierra o el Zahir?

En las horas desiertas de la noche aún puedo caminar por las calles. El alba suele sorprenderme en un banco de la plaza Garay, pensando (procurando pensar) en aquel pasaje del Asrar Nama, donde se dice que Zahir es la sombra de la Rosa y la rasgadura del Velo. Vinculo ese dictamen a esa noticia: Para perderse enDios, los sufíes repiten su propio nombre o los noventa y nueve nombres divinos hasta que éstos ya nada quieren decir. Yo anhelo recorrer esa senda. Quizá yo acabe por gastar el Zahir a fuerza de pensarlo y de repensarlo, quizá detrás de la moneda esté Dios.

Jorge Luis Borges – El zahir

Ein Gedanke zu “El zahir”

10. November 2016 um 13:32

Fenryl

I will no longer perceive the universe, I will perceive the Zahir. According to Idealist doctrine the verbs “to live” and “to dream” are rigorously synonymous; as for me, thousands of appearances will become one; a very complex dream into a simple one. Others will dream that I am mad, while I dream of the Zahir. When every person on earth thinks, day and night, of the Zahir, which will be dream and which reality, the earth or the Zahir?

In the deserted hours of the night I am still able to walk through the streets. Dawn often surprises me upon a bench in the Plaza Garay, thinking (or trying to think) about that passage in the Asrar Nama where it is said that the Zahir is the shadow of the Rose and the rending of the Veil. I link that pronouncement to this fact: In order to lose themselves in God, the Sufis repeat their own name or the ninety-nine names of God until the names mean nothing anymore. I long to travel that path.

Perhaps I will succeed in wearing away the Zahir by thinking and re-thinking about it; perhaps behind the coin is God.

The Zahir (english translation)

10. November 2016 um 13:32
Fenryl

I will no longer perceive the universe, I will perceive the Zahir. According to Idealist doctrine the verbs “to live” and “to dream” are rigorously synonymous; as for me, thousands of appearances will become one; a very complex dream into a simple one. Others will dream that I am mad, while I dream of the Zahir. When every person on earth thinks, day and night, of the Zahir, which will be dream and which reality, the earth or the Zahir?

In the deserted hours of the night I am still able to walk through the streets. Dawn often surprises me upon a bench in the Plaza Garay, thinking (or trying to think) about that passage in the Asrar Nama where it is said that the Zahir is the shadow of the Rose and the rending of the Veil. I link that pronouncement to this fact: In order to lose themselves in God, the Sufis repeat their own name or the ninety-nine names of God until the names mean nothing anymore. I long to travel that path.

Perhaps I will succeed in wearing away the Zahir by thinking and re-thinking about it; perhaps behind the coin is God.

The Zahir (english translation)