Sunday, October 21, 2012

Pada Mu jua...



The most powerful of attractors

The belly attracts bread to its resting-place;
the heat of the liver attracts water.
The eye is an attractor of beautiful persons
from these different quarters of town;
the nose is attracting scents from the garden,
while the sense of sight is an attractor of color,
and the brain and nose attract sweet perfumes.


You, Owner of everything, are the most powerful of attractors:
it would be fitting if You would redeem the helpless.

Mathnawi VI: 2901-2905
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996

Thursday, October 11, 2012

If you want to find yourself...


Leave the stream and join the river


If you want to live, leave your banks,
as a small stream enters the Oxus, miles wide,
or as cattle moving around a millstone
suddenly circle to the top of the sphere.

Version by Coleman Barks
"Unseen Rain"
Threshold Books, 1986


(CREDITS - robertfeateckbert)

Are you searching for your soul?
Then come out of your prison.
Leave the stream and join the river
that flows into the ocean.
Absorbed in this world
you’ve made it your burden.
Rise above this world.
There is another vision…

Translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi
Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999



if you want to find yourself
leave yourself alone
wade in no little creek
swim in the big flow
you are that bull
who carries the world
revolt for once
and topple the globe.

Translation by Nader Khalili
Rumi, Dancing the Flame
Cal-Earth Press, 2001

Monday, October 01, 2012

Sahabat Gua



Sahabat Gua
M NASIR 

Berapa banyak bintang di langit
Engkau hafali ya Sahibul Kahfi
Tak akan sama bintang yang satu ini
Yang kau kenali di dalam hati

Terang walaupun dia tersembunyi
Cemburukan matahari
Cahaya berseri-seri
Jika engkau kenali

Kita ditakdirkan lari
Jauh dari kezaliman
Terperangkap dalam gua ini
Hingga masa Tuhan tunjuk kebenaran

Mari ikut rentak ku
Rentak tari dulu-dulu
Lagu marhaen sederhana
Disini tiada duka
Terima saja dengan redha
Perananmu dalam dunia

Kerana pegangan
Engkau hadapi
Dugaan ini ya Sahibul Kahfi

Kamil !
Kalimah kebenaran telah zahir
Tak usah engkau ragukan
Kita datang dari dia
Kita pulang padaNya

Banyak ayat mujarobat
Bisa menawarkan luka
Namun penyakit jiwa ini
Tak bisa ditawan tanpa penyerahan...


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