Before you are cooked in the flames of your heart,
you are nothing but wet kindling.
Unless you tear up the body’s cloak,
the flames of Love cannot be your mentor.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 1, page 439.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (pub.2024), Rubai 1119, Volume 3.
What is life without Him?
A crucifixion, a passing desire.
What is the value of soul in front of Him?
A slave and servant, an unimportant thing. Continue reading “I Have a Question (5/5/2024)”
Come to our garden. Watch the spring there.
Come close to the Beloved
and see what kind of Beauty He is.
If you can’t reach the falcon, run after its shadow.
Watch the hunting in this secret hunting place. Continue reading “Yells and Screams (4/21/2024)”
O heart, you are under foot, always in ruins.
You leave your soul to sorrow,
getting so much pleasure from that sorrow.
This time, you have fallen into the fire and I have left you.
Maybe you will become a master through this burning.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 1, page 434.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (pub.summer 2024), Volume 3, Rubai 1104.
Like Moses, the copper of your existence
will become gold through His chemistry.
So, why do you worry? Continue reading “No Way to Escape (3/24/2024)”
O heart, what kind of stories, what kind of adventures
are you looking for?
O heart, if you are looking for Me,
don’t you know that I am with you?
If you haven’t seen Me,
how can you look for the unknown, the unseen?
If you have seen Me, why are you still looking?
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 433.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, the Ergin Translations (pub.2024), Volume 3, Rubai 1100.
My life has passed in the great sweet pain of my heart.
My heart isn’t concerned about that sorrow;
it simply recognizes and accepts it. Continue reading “My Heart (3/10/2024)”
I felt the enemy’s nonsensical talk
down deep in my heart.
I learned what he was thinking about me. Continue reading “I am the One to be Blamed (2/25/2024)”
Sometimes you get tired of living with His sorrow
and so you reject life.
Sometimes you tell His story with the ache in your heart.
Why are you turning so dizzily around the world?
The One whom you search for
is not out there, but inside of you.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 2, page 471.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Rubai 1077, Volume 3 (apprx.pub.spring2024).
Since I am the slave of the Sun,
I should talk only about the Sun.
I am not the night and don’t worship the night.
Why should I talk about dreams? Continue reading “Don’t Make Me Talk with You through that Curtain (1/28/2024)”