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All Jalāl ad-Din ar-Rumi Pages (350)

I Will Share with You

Lesson 325: I Will Share with You I will give you my shirt, I swear, and my robe; Whatever the King graces me, I will share with you. From the King's hand comes to me directly The cup and jar o… View »

I Bow Down

Lesson 324: I Bow Down I wave my hands like leaves, I whirl dancing like the moon; My turning may seem earthly, but it is purer, far purer, Than the turning of all the spheres of heaven. You go… View »

I Am the Mirror

Lesson 323: I Am the Mirror Without destroying me, how could He pour me this treasure? He had to throw me to the waves for Love's Sea to sweep me away. What can the man of words guess of the sw… View »

O Silence!

Lesson 322: O Silence! O silence! You are what is most precious in me! You are the veil of all my real wealth! Why parade knowledge? Be silent, for in silence There is neither fear nor hope nor… View »

Gods Grace

Lesson 321: Gods Grace Flee greed and desire; both "life" and "death" are plagues. Dead or alive, my only country is God's Grace. I have slipped the jeweled noose of these songs Thrown them and… View »

O Treacherous Heart!

Lesson 320: O Treacherous Heart! O treacherous heart! Don't do evil and reproach Him! Don't make me known in the marketplace, don't tell my secrets. For if you do, He will shatter these fragile… View »

His Wine Heals

Lesson 319: His Wine Heals Keep your feasts and your ranks, your brilliances and your talk, Keep your lion and your burning bush; I want only my gazelle of Tartary. He has destroyed me, given m… View »

Sea of Lavishness

Lesson 318: Sea of Lavishness I have drowned in His Sea of Lavishness, I am the slave of His Dawn. He is the wild perfumed rose who drew me to the rose garden. Drowning in His Sea, all clothes… View »

I See Nothing But Him

Lesson 317: I See Nothing But Him The Lord of the Palace will not grant me an audience The confidant of the soul will not whisper me His secrets. His charm, His goodness, His glory, His fiery e… View »

The Universal Soul

Lesson 316: The Universal Soul The Universal Soul met a separate soul And placed a pearl on her breast. And through this touch the soul, like Mary, Became pregnant with a heart-ravishing Messia… View »