Become Divine Light (5/14/2023) You will be purified from bad habits by fasting. You will follow the ascent of the attained ones to the sky by fasting. You will be burned like a candle by the fire of fasting. Become divine light. The darkness of a bite makes you a More...
Love is Only for the Small (5/7/2023) O moon-faced One, how long will you stay away? How long will you be wandering around? It doesn’t matter if one is an idol or shaman; we are all Your prey. Every moment, You offer a different excuse, Every moment, You display thousands More...
“You” (4/30/2023)
Category: quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry, Weekly Poems
“You” (4/30/2023) If all I have made are mistakes and You are my only right, that is enough for me. You are the only meaning of my ruined, wrecked life. At the time of my leaving this world, if they ask me, “What did you do?” I will answer, “You.” More...
His Drunk Camel (4/23/2023) The Beloved is holding my harness, pulling me like a camel again. His business is to pull the one who chooses to be pulled. Mine is to carry the load. He made me the head of the caravan, putting all of the drunk camels in More...
Is There a Remedy…? (4/16/2023) Is there a remedy for this pain? Will I ever escape from my longing for You? You said, “Plant the sapling of patience in your heart. Do not lament and complain about being seized by the torment of Love.” Rubailer (2016), Rubai 2, page 260. More...
When Love Rattles Its Chain (4/8/2023) When it comes to reaching the heart of the Beloved, there is no room for patience. Don’t talk about patience. When Love rattles its chain, the minds of Plato and Abul Hasan* become befuddled. I swear by the Soul of Love that More...
O my Crescent of Eid,* show Yourself, so that Eid sees the real Eid. O my invisible moon-faced One, show Yourself. Pull the ear of the moon. O my existence, my Absence, O my rage and my contentment, O my Truth, my presentation, O my key and my lock, More...
You are on a Journey (3/26/2023) You are neither water nor earth. You are something else. You are created from mud, but you are not mud. You are beyond this muddy world. You are on the journey to your Essence. Your body is a riverbed. Your soul is the Water More...
My God, I Wish I Knew (3/19/2023) My God, I wish I knew the intention of my Beloved. He has taken my heart. My decision has disappeared. My escape route has been blocked. My God, I wish I knew where He was pulling me. He grabbed me by the More...
Endure (3/12/2023)
Category: quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry, Weekly Poems
Endure (3/12/2023) O heart, if you cannot endure the troubles of Love, go away. If you don’t give up your life, you will never reach the Beloved. If you haven’t been thrown, as Abraham was, into the fire, you will never find, as Khidr* did, the Water of Life. *Khidr More...