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Hafiz Sharazi (c. 1320 - 1389)


On Love
Roba'i, In Persian


I long to open up my heart

For my heart do my part.

My story was yesterday's news

From rivals cannot keep apart.

On this holy night stay with me

Till the morning, do not depart.

On a night so dark as this,

My course, how can I chart?

O breath of life, help me tonight

That in the morn I make a start.

In my love for you, I will

My self and ego thwart.

Like Hafiz, being love smart;

I long to master that art.



© Shahriar Shahriari

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OOOPPZ

sorry bro i completley forgot it was posted before..

I've deleted it.

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Back to Rumi

The Intellectual is Always Showing Off

The intellectual is always showing off,

the lover is always getting lost.

The intellectual runs away.

afraid of drowning;

the whole business of love

is to drown in the sea.

Intellectuals plan their repose;

lovers are ashamed to rest.

The lover is always alone.

even surrounded by people;

like water and oil, he remains apart.

The man who goes to the trouble

of giving advice to a lover

get nothing. He's mocked by passion.

Love is like musk. It attracts attention.

Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.

(Kulliyat-e Shams, 21 )

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Delusion is a divine curse
that makes someone envious, conceited, malicious,
so that he doesn't know the evil he does
will strike him back.
If he could see his nothingness
and his deadly, festering wound,
pain would arise from looking within,
and that pain would save him.

-Rumi

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"I am the servant of the Qur’an
While I am still alive.

I am the dust on the path of Muhammad,
the Chosen One."

(Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi)

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i was ready to tell
the story of my life
but the ripple of tears
and the agony of my heart
wouldn't let me

i began to stutter
saying a word here and there
and all along i felt
as tender as a crystal
ready to be shattered

in this stormy sea
we call life
all the big ships
come apart
board by board

how can i survive
riding a lonely
little boat
with no oars
and no arms

my boat did finally break
by the waves
and i broke free
as i tied myself
to a single board

though the panic is gone
i am now offended
why should i be so helpless
rising with one wave
and falling with the next

i don't know
if i am
nonexistence
while i exist
but i know for sure
when i am
i am not
but
when i am not
then i am

now how can i be
a skeptic
about the
resurrection and
coming to life again

since in this world
i have many times
like my own imagination
died and
been born again

that is why
after a long agonizing life
as a hunter
i finally let go and got
hunted down and became free

~Rumi, Ghazal 1419 Translated by Nader Khalili

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where's that crying emotion when u need it?????

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Once more I seek audience - Rumi


Once more I seek audience with my very own King
Once again joyously I have spread my soul's wing.
Once more fate and fortune will beseech
That in this earthly camp, my tent I should pitch.
We gave credence to the angels as well as to the beast
The soul's bird returned once more to Solomon's soulful feast.
Intoxication by the Beloved has become my sweet abode
Soulful Joseph's lock of hair is in an uncurling mode.
Once a friend asked me, why thus engage your fate?
Imagine how is the one who has found that soulful state!
My determined Beloved unveiled his lovely face
The canary of the soul sang his songs of praise
The sweetness that is not found, even in dreams
From my own very teeth, thank goodness, sweetly teems.
Headless, footless, indeed, without retinue I lead
In my own sweet land, sweetness to myself feed.
My heart in search of shining Shams headed for Tabriz
Go, go, my golden heart, your own gold seek and seize.

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through love,
the bitter becomes sweet
throughlove,
copper becomes gold
through love,
dregs becomeclear
through love,
pains become healing
through love,
the dead become living
through love,
the king becomes a slave

rumi---masnavi II:1529-31

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my heart is like a sroll
that extends without end to Eternity
Inscribed from first to last "DO NOT LEAVE ME!"


rumi--->divan-I shams 23492

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The Cure and Sickness of Love

One afternoon while in a state of sujud
I asked my Merciful God,
'Why the world hereafter have You made?
Is this clay-world not suffice for Your Justice?
Would not You Glory manifest at this place?'

I closed my eyes as I felt the reply
I smiled as I learnt the secrets of Love

This love brings sense to man of craze
And captures the sense of those wise!

It cures those sickened like 'Al-Busiri'
And makes heart-sick like 'Lahori'

I am not of those deserving to elaborate it
A dark soul I am, no better than a hypocrite

Yet love is what makes me before Him bow
And Mustafa is the center of Cosmos of Love
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

Love breaks the knots of Logic and Reason
And ties another hundred knots on the heart

O Tasbih! I almost forgot about the reply
This is how love makes your senses fly

Came the reply,

"This world is too narrow and small
For the Beloved's greatness to call

That 'Wrapped One' is the leader for all times
'BC' and 'AD' cannot contain his greatness

There should come a single day and place
When every man born shall see his radiant face
He will march with humanity behind him
That day Creation shall be led by My Beloved Mim

And when he shall reach a point carrying 'Al-Hamd'
A question shall be asked 'Who is that'
The reply will come,
"I am Muhammad"
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

- Jaihoon

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I am the slave of the Koran
While I still have life.
I am the dust on the path of Muhammad,
The Chosen One.
If anyone interprets my words In any other way,
I deplore that person,
And I deplore his words.

-Rumi

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Rumi


In this world you have three companions:

one is faithful, the others are treacherous.

The latter are friends and possessions;

the faithful one is excellence in deeds.

Your wealth won't come with you out of your palace;

your friend will come, but only as far as the grave.



When the day of doom comes to meet you,

your friend will say, "I've come this far, but no farther.

I will stand a while at your grave."

Your deeds alone are faithful: make them your refuge,

for they alone will accompany you into the depths of the tomb.

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Seek self-discipline with all your soul. Devote yourself to worship
and save your soul. Be grateful that God gave you the gift of self-
discipline, for you had no power over it. He inspired it within you
with the command, "Be!"

-Rumi, "Mathnawi"
Translated by Aneela Khalid Arshed.

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Beloved = God in His loving aspect



***

Never lose hope

If the Beloved pushes you away

If He shuts the door on you, don’t go,

Be patient and wait!

It is your patience that will

Draw Him back.

If He blocks all your roads,

Be sure

He will show you a secret way

Unknown to others.



***

“The cure is in the pain”



If you befriend the Beloved

You will never be lonely.

If you learn to be flexible

You will never be helpless.

The moon shines because it

Does not escape the night.

The rose is scented because it

Has embraced the thorn…



***

Do not look back, my friend,

No one knows how the world began.

Do not fear the future; nothing lasts forever.

If you dwell on the past or the future,

You will miss the moment…

RUMI

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RUMI: “Daylight”



He in whose face the Beloved smiles sweetly,

What harm can befall him

From the sour looks of other people?

(II, 414)



***



Don’t make your home in other men’s land;

Do your work own work; don’t do the work of a stranger.

Who is the stranger?

Your earth body, the source of all your sorrows.

The hypocrite puts musk on his body

And puts his spirit in the ash-pit.

(II, 263-4; 268)



***



The spirit came from God and will return to God.

The present life is only a moment in between.



***



The Sufi’s book is not of ink and letters;

it is nothing but a heart white as snow.

(II, 159)



***

Prayer and praise were given to you,

But that prayer made your heart proud.

You thought yourself so intimate with God,

But many became separated from God this way.

(II, 339-40)

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Deafened by the voice of desire

You are unaware the Beloved lives

In the core of your heart.

Stop the noise and

You will hear this voice

In the silence.


Rumi

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Dear heart, you are so unreasonable!

First you fall in love then worry about your life.

You rob and steal then worry about the law.

You profess to be in love

Yet still worry about what people say…


Rumi

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"The earth and the sand are burning. Put your face on the burning sand and on the earth of the road, since all those who are wounded by love must have the imprint on their face, and the scar must be seen. Let the scar of the heart be seen, for by their scars are known the men who are in the way of love."
(Sources: Breathing Truth Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi Muriel Maufroy, 1997)

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SuMrU, on Sep 9 2004, 04:02 PM, said:

i've read a few of Mevlana's poems - but the ones i have had home are in turkish - really old turkish which is difficult to understand   But then again if its translated in2 english it loses its meaning - am i right afghan sister?

However - He is referring to the love of Allah am i right? 

Its difficult to understand some of the old turkish language - sometimes it sounds he's referring to a person who he loves - but im sure he's referring to the love he has for Allah.



take care

By the way - afghan sis - have u been to Mevlana in turkey?  There's a place called Mevlana in turkey where they keep his belongings and everyhting.  I forgot what its called in english.

anyways take care for now

I'm thinking yours centences...Mevlana ....
I' ve visited Konya for Mevlana 3 times up to now...Konya puts me in a tranquil frame of mind...

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"Only sweet-voiced birds are imprisoned. Owls are not kept in cages"
— Jalaludin Rumi

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Don't laugh like children! You do not understand my state.
Read a chapter from me, unfold a secret from her [the creative Force]:
I am drunk of that wine forbidden by the lawgivers;
I am drunk of the wine of oneness; I am free of color and smell.
I am oblivious to this place; my mind is elsewhere;

Rumi

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Do not break with the prophet of your time! Do not rely on your own skills and footsteps! Though you be a lion, if you travel the Path without a guide, you will be a self-seer, astray and contemptible

-rumi

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So behead your selfhood, oh warrior! Become selfless and annihilated, like a dervish! When you have become selfless, you are secure in whatever you do: Thou didst not throw when thou threwest, but God threw (Koran 8:17).

Rumi

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Concern yourself not with the thief-like ego and its business. Whatever is not God's work is nothing, nothing!

-rumi

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Some one asked, "What is the Way?" I said, "This way is to abandon desires."

Oh lover of the King! Know that your way is to seek the pleasure of that Generous Lord. When you seek the Beloved's desire and pleasure, seeking your own desire is forbidden.

Rumi

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desire for the world has deprived man of the Object of his desire.

rumi

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I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside!

rumi

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Oh! Supreme Lover!
Let me leave aside my worries.
The flowers are blooming
with the exultation of your Spirit.

By Allah!
I long to escape the prison of my ego
and lose myself
in the mountains and the desert.

These sad and lonely people tire me.
I long to revel in the drunken frenzy of your love
and feel the strength of Rustam in my hands.

I'm sick of mortal kings.
I long to see your light.
With lamps in hand
the sheikhs and mullahs roam
the dark alleys of these towns
not finding what they seek.

You are the Essence of the Essence,
The intoxication of Love.
I long to sing your praises
but stand mute
with the agony of wishing in my heart.

rumi

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Experience shows that the spirit is nothing but awareness. Whoever has greater awareness has greater spirit… When the spirit becomes greater and passes beyond all bounds, the spirits of all things become obedient to it.

Rumi