Kathy 'VZ'
marwa.elsayed.7798
Thu, 25/05/2017 - 21:00
Thank You so much for the translation as well as the notes about the love story..fantastic.
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English
Translation
Mecnun
The fall is pouring its leaves now
What does it change even if it keeps it as a secret
In the end everything becomes sadness
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I called it divine love, loved her like Mecnun
A city thousands of poems burned down you didn't see
You become a saint but you can't reach
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Holding on to an hope and sometimes calling it destiny
How many times have been wrong and cried and fell into trouble
People believe in love the most
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It's hard, it doesn't work if you stay or go
I loved you so much it hurts
Hard, between the lies and separation
So, everything is named as forgetting, now Leyla?
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Leyla and Mecnun: It is a known love story in Turkish culture. Two people who named Leyla (f) and Mecnun [Kays] (m).
"Leyla and Mecnun’s story is often associated with Mevlana Rumi, who told the story in his writings as an example of apprehending God through love. Leyla and Kays are school friends who fall in love. Not finding Kays suitable for her daughter, Leyla’s mother takes Leyla from school and forbids them from seeing each other. Kays suffers greatly from this separation and goes mad. People start to call him Mecnun (which means crazy in Arabic). Mecnun wanders the deserts and replaces his material love for Leyla with divine love. Leyla goes after him, but when she finds him Mecnun does not recognize her material being. Understanding that Mecnun’s love for her turned into a greater, divine love, Leyla gives up going after him and dies of her misery. After her death, Mecnun cries in her grave and begs God to take him too. God hears his prayers. The two become one, defeating Time and material being."