Another gem from al-Andalus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRGlzIhWgAY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GV6P3YSvrY Translation (of the most common version, in Arabic below): When she began to sway my Love’s beauty entranced me With a glance, she captured me the branch bends when it sways O my promise, O my wonder, None can console my complaint of love and…
Rumi on Karbala
كل يوم عاشوراء وكل ارض كربلاء Translation: Where are you, o martyrs of God? You calamity seekers of the desert of Karbala Where are you, o you the light-winged lovers Lighter than the birds of heaven, o celestial soveirgns Who have opened the gates of the heavenly spheres You who have released yourself from time and…
Rumi-Dancing Atoms
My translation: Arise oh day! The atoms are dancing! For him the spheres and wind are dancing Souls ecstatic with joy are dancing I’ll whisper in your ear where they are dancing Each atom in the wind or desert Is good-natured, like this, we are enchanted Each atom, whether happy or sad Is…
Rumi – I do not know myself
What is to be done, O Muslims? for I do not know myself. I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Magian, nor Muslim. I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea; I am not of Nature’s quarry, nor of the heaven circling above….
Rumi-I can’t live without you
Translation: Franklin Lewis from: Rumi-Past and Present, East and West The Life Teachings and Poetry of Jalal ad-Din Rumi. One World: Oxford, 2000…