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.
O cloud, you are from the universe of the suns.
The thing you do now is all upside down.
Know well that by covering our world in darkness,
you are oppressing us.
It is for mortals like us to cry.
Instead, you are crying for us.
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 2, page 427.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pub.2024), Rubai 1117, Volume 3.
O eye, don’t become ruined by weeping.
O heart, don’t spill more blood because of this business.
O soul, you have reached a door in this dungeon of flesh.
Why don’t you want to come out?
Rubailer (2016), Rubai 3, page 435.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (ApprxPub2024), Volume 3, Rubai 1115.
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.
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)”
There is a spark and warmth from Your Love
in everyone’s heart.
Your trace, the tears of Your longing
are in every prayer niche and alter.
I need a long night and beautiful moonlight to tell You
about all my troubles and sufferings caused by Love.
Rubailar (2016), Rubai 3, page 432.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pubsummer2024), Rubai 1084, Volume 3.