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All Jalāl ad-Din ar-Rumi Pages (350)

Beauty

Lesson 76: Beauty Beauty harsher than a thousand suns Broke into my house, asked 'How is your heart?' His robe of glory trailed the floor; I said 'Pick up your robe; the house is floored with b… View »

Infinite Mercy

Lesson 75: Infinite Mercy Infinite mercy flows continually But you're asleep and can't see it. The sleeper's robe goes on drinking river water While he frantically hunts mirages in dreams And r… View »

What He Meant

Lesson 74: What He Meant 'You'll not have escaped from yourself Until your Light is a thousand times you' I could not know what he meant Before he exploded me. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translate… View »

Beyond My Will

Lesson 73: Beyond My Will Beyond my will, words race from my lips I get no real news of him who speaks Sometimes I want poison, sometimes sugar What do I know of what I am or do? - Jalal-ud-… View »

Until I Die

Lesson 72: Until I Die Sometimes fury shoots from me, sometimes love, I never know which face you'll show Who lives in me now and dangles my body Whatever way you want until I die. - Jalal-u… View »

Hammer This Heart

Lesson 71: Hammer This Heart Hammer this heart any way you like For the right ringing sounds To spread like water Over the dry listening dead. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harve… View »

Fields of Paradise

Lesson 70: Fields of Paradise If in hell I could hold one curl of your hair I'd think the saints of heaven in torment Called, without you, to the fields of Paradise Their widest splendours woul… View »

Enemies

Lesson 69: Enemies Enemies say 'We always knew he was stupid' God knows I must seem so, saying nothing But your name, weeping like a madwoman When you're here, when you've gone. - Jalal-ud-D… View »

Stand Trembling

Lesson 68: Stand Trembling Dare to throw your being at the Beloved's feet Cling, day and night, to the circle of lovers Leave your life in ashes and run to this fervour Stand trembling by the C… View »

The Liar in You 2 Comments

Lesson 67: The Liar in You Seize the diamond knife of purified fury Slash your way out of the circus-cage of Reason Murder the liar in you and drag his corpse Where the other rational corpses c… View »