1990 Volume 5. Pirzadi Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan. "Song to the Madzub"

Growing up in a family where the atmosphere was saturated with music, it would be only natural for the first child of Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan to express her deepest feelings musically. This composition came to her at the age of fifteen, a few weeks after the passing of her father, and is dedicated to him. 'Madzub' denotes someone who is God-realized, but who hides the realization so he may go untroubled among the crowd. The photo shows Noor-un-nisa playing the vina in the home of Sirdar van Tuyll van Seerooskerken in The Hague.

Song to the Madzub

At Thy Feet, O Madzub, I come to seek for Rest,
In the Fire of Thy Glance, may this yearning Soul be blessed.

Thy Footprints of Crushed Thorns are strewn with Pearls Divine,
And Lo! Their Glory unveils these dazzled eyes of mine.

Through Life's Test, may this heart, O Thou Living Shrine,
As a Lotus once bloom, bloom in these Rays of Thine.

At Thy Feet, O Madzub, I come to seek for Rest,
In the Fire of Thy Glance, may this yearning Soul be blessed...