Jelaluddin Rumi
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other'
doesn't make sense any more.
My latest passion.... a couple of master pieces from Divan-e Shams
Translated By
Shahriar Shahriari
Vancouver, Canada
Rumi 65
Tell me, is sugar sweeter
Or He who makes sugar cane?
Beauty of the moon is better
Or He who makes it wax and wane?
Leave all the moons behind
Put sugar out of your mind
In Him another you’ll find
He makes another kind of grain.
O mind you may be wise
In knowledge and insight may rise
Or is it better to prize
He who makes the mind insane?
Body, soul, mind and heart
With power will make a start
Yet in a drop, with art
A hundred eyes will entertain.
O love, O tumultuous love
O restless bleeding dove
This fire from above
Makes love in your heart reign.
With His love I am raw
I am confused and in awe
Sometimes my flames withdraw
Sometimes consumed and slain.
The ocean of loving grace
Traces the lover’s face
A drop of thought will replace
A thousand pearls will remain.
O Shams-e Tabriz, my pain
A hundred ways my heart would drain
Sometimes a blade, cuts my vein
Sometimes the shield I urge in vain.
Rumi 41
Each breath is a song of love
From left and right, pass us by
We’ll return to the world above
Such fate no-one can defy.
We have come from the skies
Befriended angels in heaven
To the same place we will rise
To that city past skies seven.
We are above the skies
And angels we transcend
Why should we compromise?
The House of Songs is our end.
With good fortune may we live
Fate is contradictory,
Gladly our lives may we give
Worldly pride victory.
The sweet scent of this breeze
Is from the curl of that hair
Radiant fantasy on its knees
Upon that face gladly stare.
People are like the loons
Are born from the sea of soul
Stay afloat many moons
The sea the loon control.
On that sea came the wave
While the ship was taking form
From shipwreck no-one could save
Returned to sea by that storm.
What seemed bad, was grace
Kindness was in the wave’s wrath
Dawn of fulfillment is in place
Lighting up that divine path.
From Tabriz began to shine
The Light of Truth, to me call
Thy light is Light Divine
Distinct, yet connecting all.
posted by Darwaish @ 12:25 PM
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AusteeG ;)
happy new year to you too babe! .. :D
this is in response to your comment to my blog about peace between india and pakistan. see the point is..that you didnt get my point.
i am not propogating piece. i think history has taught us that peace between india and pakistan is almost impossible.
lets go back to the 50s...when relations between india and pakistan were the same as they are now: peace talks, people to people contact, secretary level talks happening right left and centre.
yes the winds of peace were blowing at that time too..so much so that nehru actually promised that a plebiscite would be held in kashmir.
why wasnt it help then...?
because in 1952 (or 54 was it?) pakistan joined SAARC..a move that india was extremely opposed to and as a result of which the peace process was stalled and India refused to indluge in any more talks/excahnges.
now take THAT experience and copy it onto TODAY. v r going through the whole "peace" process in exactly the same way..but once again there are hurdles...namely the US arms supply to Pakistan and India building the baglihar dam in J&K.
both sides are getting annoyed with each other oce again and neither is willing to back off.
what will happen to this so-called-peace process in the near future...is quite obvious.
its great to be passionate and say 'lets go to war...we will solve things on the battlefield..'...
the kashmiris have been on the battlefield for quite sometime now and nothing has come out of that has it?
my solution: at this point in time, we DONT need a state of peace.......we need a state of NO-WAR.
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