One of my favorite songs from a long time ago… Translation (rougher than usual): I am here by fate, my friend, by fate I am here, my cousin… Where can I find you, poor you? All my friends have betrayed me God and my parents are all that I have By fate…
Ibn ‘Arabi-Her words bring me to life…
Translation (sung portion in bold): On the day of parting they did not saddle the full-grown reddish-white camels until they had mounted the peacocks upon them, Peacocks with murderous glances and sovereign power : thou wouldst fancy that each of them was a Bilqis on her throne of pearls. When she walks on the glass pavement l…
Rumi-I am the hoopoe…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5THbECqsbAk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcwBNFlW51g Translation: Show your face, for the orchard and rosegarden are my desire; open your lips, for abundant sugar is my desire. Sun of beauty, come forth one moment out of the cloud, for that glittering, glowing countenance is my desire. Out of your air I heard the…