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Poems of Passion
[collected and visually processed by Chaim Frank, 2006]
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Rumi - Poems of Passion
OVE IS THE MASTER
ve is the One who masters all things;
m mastered totally by Love.
my passion of love for Love
ave ground sweet as sugar.
furious Wind, I am only a straw before you;
ow could I know where I will be blown next?
hoever claims to have made a pact with Destiny
eveals himself a liar and a fool;
hat is any of us but a straw in a storm?
ow could anyone make a pact with a hurricane?
od is working everywhere his massive Resurrection;
ow can we pretend to act on our own?
the hand of Love I am like a cat in a sack;
metimes Love hoists me into the air,
metimes Love flings me into the air,
ve swings me round and round His head;
ave no peace, in this world or any other.
e lovers of God have fallen in a furious river;
ey have surrendered themselves to Love's commands.
ke mill wheels they turn, day and night, day and night,
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onstantly turning and turning, and crying out.
TAY CLOSE, MY HEART
ay close, my heart, to the one who knows your ways;
ome into the shade of the tree that allays has freshwers.
on't stroll idly through the bazaar of the perfume-markers:
ay in the shop of the sugar-seller.
you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you;
yone can trick out of a thing of straw,
d make you take it for gold
on't squat with a bowl before every boiling pot;
each pot on the fire you find very different things.
ot all sugarcanes have sugar, not all abysses a peak;
ot all eyes possess vision, not every sea is full of pearls.
nightingale, with your voice of dark honey! Go onmenting!
nly your drunken ecstasy can pierce the rock's hard heart!
rrender yourself, and if you cannot be welcomes by theend,
ow that you are rebelling inwardly like a thread
at doesn't want to go through the needle's eye!
e awakened heart is a lamp; protect it by the him of yourbe!
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urry and get out of this wind, for the weather is bad.
d when you've left this storm, you will come to a fountain;
u'll find a Friend there who will always nourish your soul.
d with your soul always green, you'll grow into a tall tree
owering always with sweet light-fruit, whose growth iserior.
anslated by Andrew Harvey)
HE INTEREST WITHOUT THE CAPITAL
e lover's food is the love of the bread;
bread need be at hand:
one who is sincere in his love is a slave to existence.
vers have nothing to do with with with existence;
vers have the interest without the capital.
thout wings they fly around the world;
hout hands they carry the polo ball off the field.
at dervish who caught the scent of Reality
ed to weave basket even though his hand had been cut.
ver have pitched their tents in non-existence:
ey are of one quality and one essence, as non-existence
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athnawi III, 3020-3024
HE SHIP SUNK IN LOVE
ould Love's heart rejoice unless I burn?
r my heart is Love's dwelling.
You will burn Your house, burn it, Love!
ho will say, 'It's not allowed'?
rn this house thoroughly!
e lover's house improves with fire.
om now on I will make burning my aim,
om now on I will make burning my aim,
I am like the candle: burning only makes me brighter.
bandon sleep tonight; traverse fro one night
e region of the sleepless.
ok upon these lovers who have become distraught
d like moths have died in union with the One Beloved.
ok upon this ship of God's creatures
d see how it is sunk in Love.
athnawi VI, 617-623; The Rumi Collection, Edited bybir Helminski
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h Beloved
h Beloved,
ke me.
berate my soul.
me with your love and
ease me from the two worlds.
set my heart on anything but you
fire burn me from inside.
h Beloved,
ke away what I want.
ke away what I do.
ke away what I need.
ke away everything
at takes me from you.
RADLE MY HEART
st night,
was lying on the rooftop,
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nking of you.
aw a special Star,
d summoned her to take you a message.
rostrated myself to the Star
d asked her to take my prostration
that Sun of Tabriz.
that with his light, he can turn
y dark stones into gold.
pened my chest and showed her my scars,
old her to bring me news
my bloodthirsty Lover.
I waited,
aced back and forth,
til the child of my heart became quiet.
e child slept, as if I were rocking his cradle.
h Beloved, give milk to the infant of the heart,
d don't hold us from our turning.
u have cared for hundreds,
n't let it stop with me now.
the end, the town of unity is the place for the heart.
hy do you keep this bewildered heart
the town of dissolution?
ave gone speechless, but to rid myself
this dry mood,
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Saaqhi, pass the narcissus of the wine.
ush Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems ofumi Translated by Shahram Shiva
HE AWAKENING
the early dawn of happiness
u gave me three kisses
that I would wake up
this moment of love
ed to remember in my heart
hat Id dreamt about
ring the night
fore I became aware
this moving
life
ound my dreams
t the moon took me away
fted me up to the firmament
d suspended me there
aw how my heart had fallen
your path
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ging a song
tween my love and my heart
ngs were happening which
owly slowly
ade me recall everything
u amuse me with your touch
hough I cant see your hands.
u have kissed me with tenderness
hough I havent seen your lips
u are hidden from me.
t it is you who keeps me alive
rhaps the time will come
hen you will tire of kisses
hall be happy
en for insults from you
nly ask that you
ep some attention on me.
e Love Poems of Rumi by Deepak Chopra (Editor)
onight is a Night of Union
night is a night of union for the stars and of scattering,
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attering, since a bride is coming from the skies,nsisting of a full moon.
nus cannot contain hereself for charming melodies, likee
ghtingale which becomes intoxicated with the rose inring-time.
e how the polestar is ogling Leo;
hold what dust Pisces is stirring up drom the deep!
piter has galloped his steed against ancient Saturn,ying
ake back your youth and go, bring good tidings!
ars' hand, which was full of blood from the handle of his
word, has become as life-giving as the sun, the exalted inorks.
nce Aquarius has come full of that water of life, the dry
ster of Virgo is raining pearls from him.
e Pleiades full of goodness fears not Libra and being
oken; how should Aries flee away in fright from itsother?
hen from the moon the arrow of a glance struck the heart
Sagittarius, he took to night-faring in passion for her, like
orpio.
n such a festival, go, sacrifice Taurus, else you areooked of
it in the mud like Cancer.
is sky is the astrolabe, and the reality is Love;
hatever wesay of this, attend to the meaning.
amsi-Tabriz, on that dawn when you shine, the dark night
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transformed to bright day by your moonlike face.
ystical Poems of Rumi 1A.J. Arberry - The University ofhicago Press, 1968
AULANA'S LAST LETTER TO SHAMS
metimes I wonder, sweetest love, if you
ere a mere dream in along winter night,
dream of spring-days, and of golden light
hich sheds its rays upon a frozen heart;
dream of wine that fills the drunken eye.
d so I wonder, sweetest love, if I
ould drink this ruby wine, or rather weep;
ch tear a bezel with your face engraved,
rosary to memorize your name...
ere are so many ways to call you back-
s, even if you only were a dream.
nslated by Annemarie Schimmel, 'Nightingale Under Theow'
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FTER BEING IN LOVE, THE NEXTESPONSIBILITY
rn me like a waterwheel turning a millstone.
enty of water, a Living River.
ep me in one place and scatter the love.
af-moves in wind, straw drawn toward amber,
parts of the world are in love,
t they do not tell their secrets. Cows grazing
a sacramental table, ants whispering in Solomon's ear.
ountains mumbling an echo. Sky, calm.
he sun were not in love, he would have no brightness,
e side of the hill no grass on it.
e ocean would come to rest somewhere.
a lover as they are, that you come to know
u Beloved. Be faithful that you may know
ith. The other parts of the universe did not accept
e next responsibility of love as you can.
ey were afraid they might make a mistake
th it, the inspired knowing
at springs from being in love
ruzanfar #2674 (translated by Coleman Barks); Theumi Collection, edited by Kabir Helminski
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hat moon
at moon, which the sky ne'er saw even in dreams, hasurned
d brought a fire no water can quench.
e the body' s house, and see my. soul,
is made drunken and that desolate by the cup of his love.
hen the host of the tavern became my heart-mate,
y blood turned to wine and my heart to kabab.
hen the eye is filled with thought of him, a voice arrives :
ell done, O flagon, and bravo, wine!
ve's fingers tear up, root and stem,
ery house where sunbeams fall from love.
hen my heart saw love's sea, of a sudden
eft me and leaped in, crying, , Find me.'
e face of Shamsi Din, Tabriz's glory, is the sun
whose track the cloud-like hearts are moving.
om Divan-i Shams, translated R. A. Nicholson
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HROUGH LOVE
rough Love all that is bitter will sweet
rough Love all that is copper will be gold.
rough Love all dregs will turn to purest wine
rough Love all pain will turn to medicine.
rough Love the dead will all become alive.
rough Love the king will turn into a slave!
NCE
NCE a beloved asked her lover: Friend,
u have seen many places in the world!
ow - which of all these cities was the best?
e said: The city where my sweetheart lives!
ROM MYSELF
om myself I am copper,
ough You, friend, I am gold.
om myself I'm a stone, but
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ough You I am a gem!
Sun, fill our House
Sun, fill our house once more with light!
ake happy all your friends and blind your foes!
se from behind the hill, transform the stones
rubies and the sour grapes to wine!
Sun, make our vineyard fresh again,
d fill the steppes with hour is and green cloaks!
ysician of the lovers, heaven's lamp!
escus the lovers! Help the suffering!
ow but your face - the world is filled with light!
t if you cover it, it's the darkest night!
OW SHOULD THE SOUL
ow should the Soul not take wings
hen from the Glory of God
hears a sweet, kindly call:
Why are you here, soul? Arise!
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ow should a fish not leap fast
o the sea form dry land
hen from the ocean so cool
e sound of the waves reaches its
ow should the falcon not fly
ck to his king from the hunt
hen from the falconer's drum
hears to call: Oh, come back?
hy should not every Sufi
gin to dance atom-like
ound the Sun of duration
at saves from impermanence?
hat graciousness and what beauty?
hat life-bestowing! What grace!
anyone does without that, woe-
hat err, what suffering!
h fly , of fly, O my soul-bird,
to your primordial home!
u have escaped from the cage now-
ur wings are spread in the air.
h travel from brackish water
w to the fountain of life!
eturn from the place of the sandals
w to the high seat of souls!
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o on! Go on! we are going,
d we are coming, O soul,
om this world of separation
union, a world beyond worlds!
ow long shall we here in the dust-world
e children fill our skirts
th earth and with stones without value,
h broken shards without worth?
t's take our hand from the dust grove,
s fly to the heavens' high,
t's fly from our childish behaviour
d join the banquet of men!
all out, O soul, to proclaim now
at you are rules and king!
u have the grace of the answer,
u know the question as well!
anslated by Annemarie Schimmel, 'Look! This is Love'
WHISPERS OF LOVE
ver whispers to my ear,
etter to be a prey than a hunter.
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ake yourself My fool.
op trying to be the sun and become a speck!
well at My door and be homeless.
on't pretend to be a candle, be a moth,
you may taste the savor of Life
d know the power hidden in serving.
athnawi V. 411-414 (translated by Kabir Helminski); Theumi Collection, Edited by Kabir Helminski
ow Long
ow Long
an I Lament
th This Depressed
eart And Soul
ow Long
an I Remain
Sad Autumn
er Since My Grief
as Shed My Leaves
e Entire Space
My Soul
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Burning In Agony
ow Long Can I
de The Flames
anting To Rise
ut Of This Fire
ow Long Can One Suffer
e Pain Of Hatred
Another Human
Friend Behaving Like An Enemy
th A Broken Heart
ow Much More
an I Take The Message
om Body To Soul
elieve In Love
wear By Love
lieve Me My Love
ow Long
ke A Prisoner Of Grief
an I Beg For Mercy
u Know I'm Not
Piece Of Rock Or Steel
t Hearing My Story
en Water Will Become
Tense As A Stone
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Can Only Recount
e Story Of My Life
ght Out Of My Body
ames Will Grow
ocking and Rolling
ocking And Rolling
hat Have You Been Drinking
ease Let Me Know
u Must Be Drunk
oing House To House
andering From Street To Street
ho Have You Been With
ho Have You Kissed
ho's Face Have You Been Fondling
u Are My Soul
u Are My Life
wear My Life And Love Is Yours
Tell Me The Truth
here Is That Fountainhead
e One You've Been Drinking From
on't Hide This Secret
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ad Me To The Source
My Jug Over And Over Again
st Night I Finally Caught
ur Attention In The Crowd
Was Your Image Filling My Dream
lling Me To Stop This Wandering
op This Search For
ood And Evil
aid My Dear Prophet
ve Me Some Of
at You've Drunk For Ecstasy Of Life
Let You Drink You Said
y Of This Burning Flame
Will Scorch Your Mouth And Throat
ur Portion Has Been
ven Already By Heaven
k For More At Your Peril
amented And Begged
esire Much More
ease Show Me The Source
ave No Fear
Burn My Mouth And Throat
m Ready To Drink Every Flame And More
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how me Your Face
ow Me Your Face
rave
owers And Gardens
pen Your Lips
rave
e Taste Of Honey
ome Out From
hind The Clouds
esire A Sunny Face
ur Voice Echoed
ying Leave Me Alone
Wish To Hear Your Voice
ain Saying Leave Me Alone
wear This City Without You
A Prison
m Dying To Get Out
Roam In Deserts And Mountains
m Tired Of
msy Friends And
bmissive Companions
ie To Walk With The Brave
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m Blue Hearing
agging Voices And Meek Cries
Desire Loud Music
unken Parties And
ld Dance
ne Hand Holding
Cup Of Wine
ne Hand Caressing Your Hair
en Dancing In Orbital Circle
at Is What I Yearn For
Can Sing Better Than Any Nightingale
t Because Of
is City's Freaks
eal My Lips
hile My Heart Weeps
sterday The Wisest Man
olding A Lit Lantern
Daylight
as Searching Around Town Saying
m Tired Of
These Beasts And Brutes
eek
True Human
e Have All Looked
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r One But
o One Could Be Found
ey Said
s He Replied
t My Search Is
r The One
ho Cannot Be Found
anslated by Nader Khalili - Rumi, Fountain of Fire
eason says Love says
eason says, I will beguile him with the tongue; Loveys, Be silent. I will beguile him with the soul.
e soul says to the heart, Go, do not laugh at me andurself. What is there that is not his, that I may beguile himereby?
e is not sorrowful and anxious and seeking oblivion that Iay beguile him with wine and a heavy measure.
e arrow of his glance needs not a bow that I shouldguile the shaft of his gaze with a bow.
e is not prisoner of the world, fettered to this world ofrth, that I should beguile him with gold of the kingdom of
e world.
e is an angel, though in form he is a man; he is not lustfulat I should beguile him with women.
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gels start away from the house wherein this form is, sow should I beguile him with such a form and likeness?
e does not take a flock of horses, since he flies on wings;s food is light, so how should I beguile him with bread?
e is not a merchant and trafficker in the market of theorld that I should beguile him with enchantment of gain
d loss.
e is not veiled that I should make myself out sick and utterghs, to beguile him with lamentation.
will bind my head and bow my head, for I have got out ofnd; I will not beguile his compassion with sickness orttering.
air by hair he sees my crookedness and feigning; whatsdden from him that I should beguile him with anythingdden.
e is not a seeker of fame, a prince addicted to poets, thatshould beguile him with verses and lyrics and flowingetry.
e glory of the unseen form is too great for me to beguile it
th blessing or Paradise.
ams-e Tabriz, who is his chosen and beloved rchance I will beguile him with this same pole of the age.
Saw My Sweetheart Wandering
aw my sweetheart wandering about the house; he hadken a rebec and was playing a melody.
th a plectrum like fire he was playing a sweet melody,
unken and dissolute and charming from the Magian wine.
e was invoking the saqi in the air of Iraq2 The air of Iraq is
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Persian tune.; the wine was his object, the saqi was hiscuse.
e moonfaced saqi pitcher in his hand, entered from arner and set it in the middle.
e filled the first cup with that flaming wine; did you evere water sending out flames?
e set it on his hand for the sake of the lovers, thenostrated and kissed the threshold.
y sweetheart seized it from him and quaffed the wine;mes from that wine went running over his face.
e was beholding his own beauty, and saying to the evile, Never has there been, nor shall there come in this
e, another like me.
anslation by A. J. Arberry Mystical Poems of Rumi 2,e University of Chicago Press, 1991
[http://www.khamush.com/passion.htm]
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Rumi about Life & Death
ook at Love
ok At Love
ow It Tangles
th The One Fallen In Love
ok At Spirit
ow It Fuses With Earth
ving It New Life
hy Are You So Busy
th This Or That Or Good Or Bad
y Attention To How Things Blend
hy Talk About All
e Known And The Unknown
e How The Unknown Merges Into The Known
hy Think Seperately
This Life And The Next
hen One Is Born From The Last
ok At Your Heart And Tongue
ne Feels But Deaf And Dumb
e Other Speaks In Words And Signs
ok At Water And Fire
rth And Wind
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emies And Friends All At Once
e Wolf And The Lamb
e Lion And The Deer
r Away Yet Together
ok At The Unity Of This
ring And Winter
anifested In The Equinox
u Too Must Mingle My Friends
nce The Earth And The Sky
e Mingled Just For You And Me
e Like Sugarcane
weet Yet Silent
on't Get Mixed Up With Bitter Words
y Beloved Grows
ght Out Of My Own Heart
ow Much More Union Can There Be
ome on Sweetheart
ome On Sweetheart
t's Adore One Another
fore There Is No More
You And Me
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Mirror Tells The Truth
ok At Your Grim Face
ghten Up And Cast Away
ur Bitter Smile
Generous Friend
ves Life For A Friend
t's Rise Above This
imalistic Behavior
d Be Kind To One Another
pite Darkens Friendships
hy Not Cast Away
alice From Our Heart
nce You Think Of Me
ead And Gone
u Will Make Up With Me
u Will Miss Me
u May Even Adore Me
hy Be A Worshiper Of The Dead
ink Of Me As A Goner
ome And Make Up Now
nce You Will Come
d Throw Kisses
My Tombstone Later
hy Not Give Them To Me Now
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is Is Me
at Same Person
May Talk Too Much
t My Heart Is Silence
hat Else Can I Do
m Condemned To Live This Life
ve Come Again
e Come Again
ke A New Year
Crash The Gate
This Old Prison
e Come Again
Break The Teeth And Claws
This Man-Eating
onster We Call Life
e Come Again
Puncture The
ory Of The Cosmos
ho Mercilessly
estroys Humans
m The Falcon
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unting Down The Birds
Black Omen
fore Their Flights
Gave My Word
The Outset To
ve My Life
th No Qualms
ray To The Lord
Break My Back
fore I Break My Word
ow Do You Dare To
t Someone Like Me
oxicated With Love
ter Your House
u Must Know Better
Enter
Break All This And
estroy All That
The Sheriff Arrives
Throw The Wine
His Face
Your Gatekeeper
lls My Hand
Break His Arm
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The Heavens Don't Go Round
My Heart's Desire
Crush Its Wheels And
ll Out Its Roots
u Have Set Up
Colorful Table
alling It Life And
ked Me To Your Feast
t Punish Me If
njoy Myself
hat Tyranny Is This
ou Mustn't Be Afraid Of Death
u Mustn't Be Afraid Of Death
u're A Deathless Soul
u Can't Be Kept In A Dark Grave
u're Filled With God's Glow
Happy With Your Beloved
u Can't Find Any Better
e World Will Shimmer
cause Of The Diamond You Hold
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hen Your Heart Is Immersed
This Blissful Love
u Can Easily Endure
y Bitter Face Around
The Absence Of Malice
ere Is Nothing But
appiness And Good Times
on't Dwell In Sorrow My Friend
anslated by Nader Khalili Rumi, Fountain of Fire, Cal-rth Press, 1994
emember me.
will be with you in the grave
the night you leave behind
ur shop and your family.
hen you hear my soft voice
hoing in your tomb,
u will realize
at you were never hidden from my eyes.
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m the pure awareness within your heart,
h you during joy and celebration,
ffering and despair.
n that strange and fateful night
u will hear a familar voice --
u'll be rescued from the fangs of snakes
d the searing sting of scorpions.
e euphoria of love will sweep over your grave;
will bring wine and friends, candles and food.
hen the light of realization dawns,
outing and upheaval
l rise up from the graves!
e dust of ages will be stirred
the cities of ecstasy,
the banging of drums,
the clamor of revolt!
ead bodies will tear off their shrouds
d stuff their ears in fright--
hat use are the senses and the ears
fore the blast of that Trumpet?
ok and you will see my form
hether you are looking at yourself
toward that noise and confusion.
on't be blurry-eyed,
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e me clearly-
e my beauty without the old eyes of delusion.
eware! Beware!
on't mistake me for this human form.
e soul is not obscured by forms.
en if it were wrapped in a hundred folds of felt
e rays of the soul's light
ould still shine through.
at the drum,
llow the minstrels of the city.
a day of renewal
hen every young man
alks boldly on the path of love.
ad everyone sought God
stead of crumbs and copper coins
hey would not be sitting on the edge of the moat
darkness and regret.
hat kind of gossip-house
ve you opened in our city?
ose your lips
d shine on the world
e loving sunlight.
ine like the Sun of Tabriz rising in the East.
ine like the star of victory.
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ine like the whole universe is yours!
nslated by Jonathan Star - Rumi - In the Arms of theloved
OW SHOULD THE SOUL
OW SHOULD THE SOUL not take wings
hen from the Glory of God
hears a sweet, kindly call:
Why are you here, soul? Arise!
ow should a fish not leap fast
o the sea from dry land
hen from the ocean so cool
e sound of the waves reaches its
ow should the falcon not fly
ck to his king from the hunt
hen from the falconer's drum
hears to call: Oh, come back?
hy should not every Sufi
gin to dance atom-like
ound the Sun of duration
at saves from impermanence?
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hat graciousness and what beauty?
hat life-bestowing! What grace!
anyone does without that, woe-
hat err, what suffering!
h fly , of fly, O my soul-bird,
to your primordial home!
u have escaped from the cage now-
ur wings are spread in the air.
h travel from brackish water
w to the fountain of life!
eturn from the place of the sandals
w to the high seat of souls!
o on! Go on! we are going,
d we are coming, O soul,
om this world of separation
union, a world beyond worlds!
ow long shall we here in the dust-world
e children fill our skirts
th earth and with stones without value,
h broken shards without worth?
t's take our hand from the dust grove,
s fly to the heavens' high,
t's fly from our childish behaviour
d join the banquet of men!
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all out, O soul, to proclaim now
at you are rules and king!
u have the grace of the answer,
u know the question as well!
Who's knocking at my door?
E SAID: Who's knocking at my door?
id I: Your humble servant!
id He: What business have you got?
id I: I came to greet You!
id He: How long are you to push?
id I: Until You'll call me!
id He: How long are you to boil?
id I: Till resurrection!
aimed I was a lover true
d I took may oaths
at for the sake of love I lost
y kingdom and my wealth!
e said: You make a claim - the judge
eds witness for your cause!
id I: My witness is my tears,
y proof my yellow face!
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id He: The witness is corrupt,
ur eye is wet and ill!
id I: No, by Your eminence:
y eye is sinless clear!
e said: And what do you intend?
id I: Just faithful friendships!
id He: What do you want from me?
id I: Your grace abundant!
id He: Who travelled here with you?
id I: Your dream and phantom!
id He: And what led you to me?
id I: Your goblet's fragrance!
id He: What is most pleasant, say?
id I: The ruler's presence!
id He: What did you see there, friend?
id I: A hundred wonders!
id He: Why is it empty now?
id I: From fear of brigands!
id He: The brigand, who is that?
id I: IT is the blaming!
id He: And where is safety then?
id: In renunciation.
id He: Renunciation? That's ... ?
id I: The path to safety!
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id He: And where is danger, then?
id I: In Your love's quarters!
id He: And how do you fare there?
id I: Steadfast and happy.
ested you and tested you,
t it availed to nothing -
ho tests the one who was once tried,
will repent forever!
silent! If I'd utter here
e secrets fine he told me,
u would go out all of yourself,
door nor roof could hold you!
H HAPPY DAY
H HAPPY DAY when in you presence,
y ruler, I shall die!
hen near the sugar-treasure melting
e sugar I shall die!
ut of my dust will grow a thousand
centrifolias
hen in the shade of yonder cypress
gardens I shall die.
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d when you pour into my goblet
e bitter drink of death,
kiss the goblet full of joy, dear,
d drunken I shall die.
may turn yellow like the autumn
hen people speak of death,
anks to your smiling lip: like springtime
d smiling shall I die.
ave died many times, but your breath
ade me alive again,
ould I die thus a hundred more times
appily shall die!
child that dies in mother's bosom,
at's how I am, my friend,
r in the bosom of His Mercy
d kindness, I shall die.
y: Where would death be for the lovers?
possible is that!
r in the fountain of the Water
Life - there I shall die!
nslated by Annemarie Schimmel, 'Look! This is Love'
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WHY CLING
hy cling to one life
it is soiled and ragged?
e sun dies and dies
uandering a hundred lived
ery instant
od has decreed life for you
d He will give
other and another and another
anslated by Daniel Liebert)
thnawi V. 411-414 (translated by Kabir Helminski) - The Rumillection, Edited by Kabir Helminski
t The Twilight
the twilight, a moon appeared in the sky;
en it landed on earth to look at me.
ke a hawk stealing a bird at the time of prey;
at moon stole me and rushed back into the sky.
ooked at myself, I did not see me anymore;
r in that moon, my body turned as fine as soul.
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e nine spheres disappeared in that moon;
e ship of my existence drowned in that sea.
van, 649:1-3,5
ow Sleeping, Now Awake
ow sleeping, now awake, my hart is in constant fervour.
s a covered saucepan, placed on fire.
you! who have offered us from a cup a silencing wine;
ch moment a new tale is shouting to be told in silence.
his wrath there are a hundred kindnesses, in hiseanness a hundred generosities;
his ignorance immeasurable gnosis, silently speakinge the mind.
e words of those whom you have silenced, cannot hear
t those whom you have made unconscious;
m both silent and fermenting for you like the sea of Aden!
van, 1808:6-9
anslated by Fatemeh Keshavarz, 'Reading Mystical Lyric:he Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi, University of Southarolina Press, 1998.
[http://www.khamush.com/life&death.htm]
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alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumialal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-12731207-1273)
awln Jall ad-Dn Muhammad Rm (= Persian) /urkish =) Mevln Celleddin Mehmed Rumi, (1207-73 CE), also known as Muhammad Balkh (Persian),t known to the world simply as Rumi, was a 13th
ntury Persian poet, jurist, theologian and teacher offism.
umi was born in Balkh (then a city of the Greaterorasan province of Persia, now part of Afghanistan) and
ed in Konya (in present-day Turkey). His birthplace andtive tongue indicate a Persian heritage. He also wrote
s poetry in Persian and his works are widely read in Irand Afghanistan where the language is spoken. He lived
ost of his life and produced his works under the Seljukmpire and his descendants today are Turkish citizens and
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e in modern day Turkey.
umi's importance transcends national and ethnic borders.e has had a significant influence on both Turkish andrsian literature throughout the centuries. His poems haveen translated into many of the world's languages andve appeared in various formats. He was also the founderthe Mevlevi order, better known as the Whirling
ervishes, who believe in performing their worship in them of dance and music ceremony called the sema.
e general theme of his thoughts, like that of the otherystic and Sufi poets of the Persian literature, is essentiallyout the concept of Tawheed (unity) and union with hisloved (the primal root) from which / whom he has beent and fallen aloof, and his longing and desire for re-unity.
Divan-i Shams, Rumi says:
hat is to be done, O Muslims? for I do not recognize myself.
m neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Magian, nor Muslim.
m not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea;
m not of Nature's mint, nor of the circling heaven.
m not of earth, nor of water, nor of air, nor of fire;
m not of the empyrean, nor of the dust, nor of existence, nor oftity.
m not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of Saqsin
m not of the kingdom of 'Iraqian, nor of the country of Khorasan
m not of the this world, nor of the next, nor of Paradise, nor of Hell
m not of Adam, nor of Eve, nor of Eden and Rizwan.
y place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless...
umi's order issues invitation to people of all backgrounds:me, come, whoever you are.
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anderer, idolater, worshipper of fire,
me even though you have broken your vows a thousand times,
me, and come yet again.
rs is not a caravan of despair.
umi's love and his bereavement for the death of Shamsund their expression in an outpouring of music, danced lyric poems, Divani Shamsi Tabrizi. He himself wentt searching for Shams and journeyed again to
amascus. There, he realized:
hy should I seek? I am the same as
. His essence speaks through me.
ave been looking for myself!
December 1273, Rumi fell ill. He predicted his own deathd composed the well-known ghazal, which begins with
e verse:
w doest thou know
at sort of king I have
hin me as companion?
not cast thy glance
on my golden face,
r I have iron legs.
e died on December 17, 1273 in Konya; Rumi was laid tost beside his father, and a splendid shrine, the Yeilrbe Green Tomb, was erected over his tomb.
s epitaph reads:
When we are dead
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ek not our tomb in the earth,
t find it in the hearts of men.
umi's life is fully described in Shams-ud-din Ahmed Aflkisanakib-ul-Arifin (written between 1318 and 1353). He
aimed descent from the caliph Abu Bakr, and from thewarizm-Shah Sultan Ala-ud-Din b. Tukush (11991220),
hose only daughter, Malika-i-Jahan, had been married toal-ud-dins grandfather.
orkork
umi's poetry is often divided into various categories: theatrains (rubaiyat) and odes (ghazals) of the Divan, the
x books of the Mathnawi, the discourses, the letters, ande almost unknown Six Sermons. Rumi's major work isasnavi-ye Manavi (Spiritual Couplets), a six-volume poemgarded by many Sufis as second in importance only toe Qur'an.
Fihi Ma FihFihi Ma Fih (In It What's in It) is composed of Rumi'seeches on different subjects. Rumi himself did notepare or write these discourses. They were recorded bys son Sultan Valad or some other disciple of Rumi andt together as a book. The title may mean, What's in theathnawi is in this too. Some of the discourses aredressed to Muin al-Din Parvane. Some portions of it aremmentary on Masnavi.
Majalis-i Sab'aMajalis-i Sab'a (seven sessions) contains sevenrmons (as the name implies) given in seven differentsemblies. As Aflaki relates, after Sham-i Tabrizi, Rumive sermons at the request of notables, especially SalahDin Zarqubi.
he Mevlevi Sufihe Mevlevi Sufi
e Mevlevi Sufi order was founded in 1273 by Rumi's
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owers after his death. His first successor in thectorship of the order was Husam Chelebi himself, afterhose death in 1284 Rumi's younger and only survivingn, Sultan Walad, favorably known as author of theystical Mathnawi Rabbnma, or the Book of the Guitared 1312), was installed as grand master of the order.e leadership of the order has been kept in Jalaluddin'smily in Iconium uninterruptedly for the last six hundred
ars.
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