
Our heart and Love have both come
from behind hundreds of curtains,
They sit together, naked. Continue reading “My Gift to You (4/17/2022)”
Our heart and Love have both come
from behind hundreds of curtains,
They sit together, naked. Continue reading “My Gift to You (4/17/2022)”
Don’t look at me as if I am a stranger.
I am close to you.
Try to see the honey and not just the bees.
Unless you are Satan, look for the meaning of Adam.
Don’t bother with his shape and size.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 375.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx. pub. 5/2022), Rubai 826, Volume 2.
I pulled you out of the fire of lust, brought you here,
then threw you back into that fire, scattering you there.
You were born from My heart like these words.
Yet, you run, trying to escape. And, you reproach me. Continue reading “Generous and Merciful (3/6/2022)”
Know that the Beloved is concealed from everyone.
The Beloved cannot be conceived
by even the strongest imagination.
Yet, He shines like a moon in my heart
and mixes with my body like a soul.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 1, page 374.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx. pub. 5/2022), Rubai 820, volume 2.
Choose the trouble of Love over all other troubles.
I don’t know any better way to reach the Beloved.
Don’t worry if you don’t have wealth and possessions.
Worry if you don’t have troubles.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 3, page 366.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (approx pub. 5/22), Volume 2, Rubai 804.
The one to whom the secret of Love appears
loses his being,
becomes annihilated in the Beloved. Continue reading “Even If You Can’t See It (1/23/2022)”
It is vain for you to try to separate my Beloved from me.
I have become Him.
What can you do to Him? Tell me. Continue reading “Reach Peace (1/9/2022)”
O my Beloved, accept me. Take my soul.
Let me pass through both worlds.
If I settle down with anything other than You,
throw me into the fire and burn that thing.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 3, page 353.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx. pub. 5/2022), Rubai 761, Volume 2)
Never mind all of this.
How can You be with us?
You are completely soul.
You don’t fit in time and space. Continue reading “No Peer (12/12/2021)”
O One who kneaded my hands and feet from mud
and gave senses and mind to my body,
O Moon, enlighten my eyes and heart.
Take me into Your arms.
My soul, which chews Your sugar, is crying and wailing for You.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 3, page 355.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (approx. pub. 5/2022), Rubai 762, Volume 2.