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| User: | layla1188 (3944177)  Layla's Madrasa aka Layla's Place of Study
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| Name: | Layla Nasreddin | |||||
| Website: | Two of Us | |||||
| Location: | United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1977-04-29 | |||||
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| Bio: | If you add me, I'll add you back. Thus many a melody passed to and fro between the two nightingales, drunk with their passion. Those who heard them listened in delight, and so similar were the two voices that they sounded like a single chant. Born of pain and longing, their song had the power to break the unhappiness of the world. This quote reminded me a lot of our own dear John and Paul, though it could apply to any two of the Beatles. About my name: Layla (Arabic for "night") is the heroine of the poem Layla and Majnun by the Azerbaijani poet Nizami, written (or at least started) in the year 1188, in Persian. Although the basic story dates back to 8th century Arabia and has been retold hundreds of times, Nizami's poem is the most famous version. In the poem, Layla and Qays are two children who fall in love while going to school together, but their happiness is cut short when Layla's father finds out about their budding love and takes Layla out of school. Qays becomes Majnun (the name means "crazy") when he goes insane out of sheer love for Layla, and begins wandering around the desert by himself and writing exquisite poetry to Layla, carried by the wind and the masses of people who gather to hear his poems, and she responds with verses of her own. But Layla's father refuses to allow her to have anything to do with that madman, and she is married off to another man, but all her love is only for Majnun. Eventually they both die out of love for each other and are buried together, joined at last. (It is thought that the story was an influence on Romeo and Juliet. Their love is too strong to exist on earth; they cannot be together in the physical world. Well, that's one way of looking at it. I think that in fact after a while both Layla and Majnun were really in love with the image of the other they had in their minds rather than the real person, and these fantasies would be utterly crushed and destroyed if they actually got together. (I'm not much of a romantic.) Hard is the awakening for people so deeply intoxicated by their dreams. --Layla and Majnun "Layla" Written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon What'll you do when you get lonely And nobody's waiting by your side? You've been running and hiding much too long. You know it's just your foolish pride. Layla, you've got me on my knees. Layla, I'm begging, darling please. Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind. I tried to give you consolation When your old man had let you down. Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down. Chorus Let's make the best of the situation Before I finally go insane. Please don't say we'll never find a way And tell me all my love's in vain. Chorus Eric Clapton borrowed the poem Layla and Majnun to write the song "Layla," about his beloved Pattie Harrison, married to his best friend George. She refused to leave her husband, so Eric found solace in heroin, reading Layla and Majnun, and expressing his feelings by writing "Layla." If you think about it, though, it's not a very hopeful story: the lovers can only be together in heaven, and that's probably not what Eric had in mind! Although they did end up together, marrying in 1978, it didn't work out (remember what I said about fantasy washing up on the rocks of reality?) and they divorced after Eric had an affair with another woman. Sad, isn't it? Eric also used the actual words of Layla and Majnun in another song from the Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs album (1970), "I Am Yours." It's one of the poems that Majnun composes for Layla. I am yours. However distant you may be, There blows no wind but wafts your scent to me, There sings no bird but calls your name to me. Each memory that has left its trace with me Lingers forever as a part of me. I am yours. It's almost precisely the same as Majnun's poem (in translation, of course!), word for word, except for one line: I am yours, however distant you may be! Your sorrow, when you grieve, brings grief to me. There blows no wind but wafts your scent to me, There sings no bird but calls your name to me. Each memory that has left its trace with me Lingers forever as if part of me. "Layla and Majnun" is also very popular among Sufis, where Layla represents the Divine and Majnun represents the soul consumed with love for God, willing to leave all worldly possessions and worries behind to pursue his goal of union with God. Perhaps George himself would have preferred this interpretation, being the mystic he was! If prayers remain unanswered, do we ever reflect that it may be for our good? We feel sure that we know our needs, yet the future is veiled from our eyes. The thread of our fate ends outside the visible world and what today we mistake for a padlock, keeping us out, we may tomorrow find to be the key that lets us in. | |||||
| Memories: | 11 entries | |||||
| Pictures: | fewer than 10 public | |||||
| Interests: | 150: abu dhabi, agnosticism, algeria, algiers, amazigh, ancient egypt, arabic, arabic calligraphy, arabic literature, aramaic, armenia, ashkenazim, atheism, athens, baghdad, bahrain, bangladesh, beatles slash, berber, berbers, bokhara, brian epstein, bukhara, cairo, calendars, china, chinese, chinese history, coptic, damascus, disco, dubai, egypt, egyptian, england, english literature, eric clapton, etymologies, farsi, fez, firdawsi, france, french, george harrison, george michael, germany, great britain, greece, hadith, hafez, hebrew, heresies, history, homosexuality, india, indo-european languages, iran, iraq, isfahan, islam, islamic architecture, islamic art, israel, italian, italy, japan, jerusalem, john lennon, jordan, judaism, karbala, koran, kuwait, layla, layla and majnun, lebanon, libya, lisbon, liverpool, london, madinah, madonna, makkah, manchester, marrakech, marrakesh, mashhad, mecca, medina, meknes, middle east, middle eastern history, morocco, mosques, music, najaf, new delhi, new york city, nizami, oman, omar khayyam, pakistan, paris, patti boyd, paul mccartney, persia, persian, persian literature, pete best, philology, portugal, portuguese, qatar, qom, qum, qur'an, qur'an recitation, rabat, real person slash, religion, ringo starr, romance languages, rome, samarkand, samarra, saudi arabia, semitic languages, sephardim, shi'a islam, skepticism, slash, spain, spanish, stu sutcliffe, sunni islam, syria, tajweed, tamazight, tarteel, tehran, the beatles, the rolling stones, tunisia, turkey, united arab emirates, united kingdom, uzbekistan, wham!, yemen, zoroastrianism | |||||
| Schools: | None listed | |||||
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