It’s all in One contained

Understand the One and forget the rest.

Shake off your ways of an apostate pest.

Leading to the grave to hell and torture,

Rid your mind of dreams of disaster.

This is how is the argument maintained,

It’s all in One contained.

What use is it bowing one’s head?

To what avail has prostrating led?

Reading Kalma you make them laugh,

Absorbing not a word while the Quran you quaff.

The truth must be here and there sustained,

It’s all in One contained.

Some retire to the jungles in vain.

Others restrict their meals to a grain.

Misled they waste away unfed

And come back home half alive, half dead.

Emaciated in the ascetic postures feigned,

it’s all in One contained,

Seek your master, say your prayers and surrender to God,

It will lead you to mystic abandon

And help you to get attuned to the Lord.

It’s all the truth that Bulleh has gained.

It’s all in One contained.

..Bulleh Shah..