03 Thursday May 2012
Peace, one and all…
Take care, O body of dust: don’t speak a word about dust.
Don’t speak about the story of that pure Mirror.
There is an attribute of the Creator of the heavens within you.
Don’t speak except about the Attributes of the Creator of the heavens.
Mevlana, Quatrain 1743
15 Sunday Apr 2012
Peace, one and all…
The inward Companion who gives you breath
Gives you hope of reaching the sacred place.
Until the last breath, feast upon His breath,
For He gives you that from generosity, not amorous playfulness.
Mevlana, Quatrain 1818
15 Sunday Apr 2012
Peace, one and all…
If you are in search of the soul’s home, you are the soul.
And if you are in search of a mouthful of bread, you are that bread.
If you understand this secret distinction, you will understand
That anything for which you search, you are that.
Mevlana, Quatrain 1734
07 Saturday Apr 2012
Posted in al-Quran al-Karim, Love, Najm al-Din Razi Daya, Ruba'iyyat
Peace, one and all…
Your lovers have come drunk from alast,
their heads giddied by the wine of alast.
They drink on, deaf to all counsel,
for their worship of wine goes back to alast (see Quran 7:172).
Najm al-Din Razi Daya, The Path of God’s Bondsmen
06 Friday Apr 2012
Peace, one and all…
Your thinking is bound, but aren’t your feet unbound?
You have finally seen that movement is also a secret.
In movement, constriction truly becomes expansion.
The water of the well and the water of the stream are distinguished in this way.
Mevlana, Quatrain 1719
04 Wednesday Apr 2012
Posted in Hazret-i Pir Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Love, Mevlevi, Ruba'iyyat, Whirling
Peace, one and all…
Get up and circle round that Polestar of Salvation,
Like pilgrims around the Ka`ba and upon the plain of Arafat.
How did you become stuck to the ground like mud?
In the end, the key to blessings is in movement.
Mevlana, Quatrain 1718
03 Tuesday Apr 2012
Peace, one and all…
If you walk on the Way, the Way will be opened to you.
And if you become non-existent, you will be led to real existence.
If you become humble, you will not be contained in the universe.
And then you will be shown to yourself – without yourself.
Mevlana, Quatrain 1836
30 Friday Mar 2012
Peace, one and all…
As long as you don’t feel pain, you’ll never reach the remedy.
As long as you don’t give up your life, you’ll never reach union with the Beloved.
As long as you don’t go into the fire, like Abraham the Friend of God,
You’ll never reach the Fountain of Life, like Khizr
Mevlana, Quatrain 1721
28 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Abu Sa`id ibn Abi al-Khayr, Love, Qawwali, Ruba'iyyat, Understanding the Heart
Peace, one and all…
Happy is the heart that blames none and
complains not.
Like the candle, it burns, melting to the last drop,
never giving up the flame.
(Abu Sa`id ibn Abi al-Khayr)
26 Monday Mar 2012
Peace, one and all…
Childhood has gone and youth has faded from the young.
The day of old age has come, so fly up from this world.
The agreement for every guest is three days of hospitality.
Sir, three days have elapsed, so drive forth your little donkey.
Mevlana, Quatrain 1801
22 Thursday Mar 2012
Peace, one and all…
You are nothing, but your ‘nothing’ is better than existence.
You are drowned in loss, but your ‘loss’ is all gain.
You say, ‘There is nothing in my possession except dust’.
But all the heavens are envious of your ’dust’.
Mevlana, Quatrain 1814
18 Sunday Mar 2012
Peace, one and all…
Love is saying, ‘Anyone who offers up his life
Will receive more: a hundred and a thousand lives in exchange.
Notice what things Love whispers in your ear,
So that it may pull your ear and draw you to itself.
Mevlana, Quatrain 1810
17 Saturday Mar 2012
Peace, one and all…
Some day the heart will bring you to the Seizer of Hearts,
And some day the soul will bring you to the Beloved of Souls.
Don’t give up your grasp on the hem of the robe of pain,
For one day that pain will bring you to the Remedy!
Mevlana, Quatrain 1729
12 Monday Mar 2012
Peace, one and all…
Why should we keep ourselves from such Grace?
Since we are the ‘handiwork of God’ let us be in the presence of the Maker.
In the Kitchen of Heaven all the cups are golden;
God forbid that we should be satisfied with stale water
Mevlana, Quatrain 1340
01 Sunday Jan 2012
Posted in Awhaduddin Kirmani, Love, Ruba'iyyat, Servanthood, Surrender
Peace, one and all…
From love of you
passion enters
every heart:
without the remembrance of you
not a breath would rise
from the soul.
Do not sell me,
do not pardon me,
do not free me;
though you have
countless slaves,
you are my Lord.
(Awhaduddin Kirmani, Quatrains)
27 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in Exploring Oneness, Jami, Life & Death, Ruba'iyyat, Surrender
Peace, one and all…
Whatever you may find here,
life or death will soon steal it from you.
Surrender your heart to the One who
in different forms of being
has and will always be with you.
(Jami)
24 Saturday Dec 2011
Posted in Awhaduddin Kirmani, Exploring Oneness, Huuu..., Returning Home, Ruba'iyyat, the Search
Peace, one and all…
All your existence
comes from another’s
being,
all your inebriation
flows from another’s
drunkeness.
Go and wrap yourself
in the robe
of meditation,
for your flesh
is the robe
of the Other.
(Awhaduddin Kirmani, Quatrains)
17 Saturday Dec 2011
Peace, one and all…
‘The Beloved shines like the sun,
and the lover whirls like a mote of dust.
When the spring breeze of love moves,
every branch dances that is not dried-up’
Mevlana, Quatrain 937
