03 Friday May 2013
Peace, one and all…
Love is the path and road of our Prophet.
We were born from love and love was our mother.
O you who are our mother, you are hidden within veils,
Concealed from our disbelieving natures.
Mevlana, Quatrain no. 1470
30 Tuesday Apr 2013
Posted in Ahmed al-Ghazali, Ruba'iyyat, The Moment, Time
Peace, one and all…
Your regret will not bring back yesterday, which is past.
What wonder if you do not find this moment tomorrow?
Be happy at this moment in which you exist.
Do justice to it, for even this you will not find again.
Ahmad Ghazali, Quatrain
29 Monday Apr 2013
Posted in Adab, Being human, Dervishood, Polishing the Heart's Mirror, Ruba'iyyat, Ruzbehan Baqli
Peace, one and all…
Yesterday I polished my mirror,
Made it bright and placed it before myself.
I saw so many faults of my own in the mirror
That I forgot other people’s faults completely
Ruzbehan Baqli, Quatrain 3 (Source)
22 Saturday Dec 2012
Posted in Awhaduddin Kirmani, Huuu..., Ruba'iyyat, the Search
Peace, one and all…
There are no gates
which open on
Your holy Essence:
no one can know
the depths
of Your perfection.
For travellers
on the path to You
there only remains
to repeat and repeat
‘There is no god
but God’
(Awhaduddin Kirmani, Quatrains)
20 Thursday Dec 2012
Posted in Awhaduddin Kirmani, Ruba'iyyat, The Limits of Intellect
Peace, one and all…
If the intellect
should grasp
all science,
then stumble upon
your arcana…
helpless.
Beloved, You alone
comprehend Your own
existence:
who then
can know You
as You are?
(Awhaduddin Kirmani, Quatrains)
02 Monday Jul 2012
Peace, one and all…
‘I am the lover of Love, and Love is my lover as well.
The body has become the lover of the soul, and the soul
the lover of the body.
Sometimes I embrace its neck with my two arms,
and sometimes it pulls me by the hem of my robe, like beloveds will’
Mevlana, Quatrain 934
26 Tuesday Jun 2012
Peace, one and all…
Imagine the arches
and columns of your palace
already built,
with its roofpeaks
brushing against the sky,
its walls of garnet
its floortiles all
of pure ruby;
for two or three days
you loll inside, and then…
the eviction notice.
(Awhaduddin Kirmani, trans. Peter Lambourn Wilson)
06 Wednesday Jun 2012
Peace, one and all…
‘Anyone who ties something untied into a knot
Laughs at his own condition and the condition of the world.
They speak words about union and separation, yet
How can something that was never separated be joined?’
Mevlana, Quatrain 905
05 Tuesday Jun 2012
Posted in Omar Khayyam, Ruba'iyyat
Peace, one and all…
In these one,
two,
three days
a lifetime has passed,
like cascading waters
or wind gusting over the plains.
But regret for two days
never comes to mind:
the one that hasn’t arrived
and the one that long since passed
Omar Khayyam, Source
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)
