Becoming.. dissolving.. no thing...

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.

There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.

(RUMI)

One Day

Your love has filled me
with a madness
no one could ever know.

Your gaze has enchanted my heart
with a poem
no one could ever write.

Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva
A Garden Beyond Paradise
Bantam Books, 1992

(credit : Khalid Shahin Blog)
 

One day
You will take my heart completely
and make it more fiery than
a dragon.
Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem
that could never come from the pen
of a poet.

  Translation by Azima Melita Kolin  and Maryam Mafi
Rumi: Hidden Music
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001

Oh formless Heart-ravisher!

Oh formless Heart-ravisher! Oh unformed Form-maker!
Oh Thou who hast given a goblet full of uproar to the lovers!

Thou hast shut my mouth lest I voice the mysteries, and
in the breast Thou hast opened the door I cannot name.

As soon as Thy Beauty threw off its veil in secret, my heart
fell to the saki and my head to the wine.

It was morning, and Thy Image went mounted on its steed.
Holy spirits, innumerable as sand, went on foot.

And those who are famous for their glorification of Thee in
heaven broke their rosaries and pawned their prayer carpets.

The spirit cannot bear to see Thy Face unveiled, and Thy
Beauty is greater than whatever I say.

My spirit is a drunken camel following behind Thee, my
body a collar around the camel's neck.

Shams of God Tabrizi! My heart is pregnant from Thee!
When will I see the child born of Thy auspiciousness!

Translation by William C. Chittick
"The Sufi Path of Love"
SUNY Press, Albany, 1983

O formless Beloved of the pure form-fashioner, O you who
have given the cup full of tumult to the lovers,

You have closed your mouth against uttering secrets, and
opened in the heart the door which I do not mention.

Since your beauty secretly cast off the veil, heart has gone
after saki and hand after wine.

In the morning when your image drove forth riding, holy
spirits, as numberless as the sand, followed on foot;

And those who are famous in heaven for their adoration broke
their rosaries and pawned their prayer rugs.

They cannot endure to gaze on your face unveiled; your beauty
exceeds all that I say.

My soul runs after you like a raging camel; my body is a collar
bound upon the neck of that camel.

Shams-al Haqq Tabriz, my heart is pregnant by you; when
shall I see a child born under your auspices?

Translation by A. J. Arberry
"Mystical Poems of Rumi 2"
The University of Chicago Press, 1991

 

 

Whatever will be, will be.

Let the Lover be disgraceful, crazy,
absentminded. Someone sober
will worry about events going badly.
Let the Lover be.

Poetic version by Coleman Barks and John Moyne
"Unseen Rain - Quatrains of Rumi"
Threshold Books, 1986

The Lover is ever drunk with love;
He is free, he is mad,
He dances with ecstasy and delight.

Caught by our own thoughts,
we worry about every little thing,
But once we get drunk on that love,
Whatever will be, will be.

Poetic version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva "A Garden Beyond Paradise - The Mystical Poetry of Rumi"
Bantam Books, 1992

All year round the lover is mad
Unkempt, lovesick, and in despair
Without love there is nothing but grief
In love... what else matters?

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

 

In love..

I am hopelessly in love with you, no point

giving me advice.

I have drunk love’s poison, no point

taking any remedy.

They want to chain my feet but

what’s the point

when it is my heart that’s gone mad.

Translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi

Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999

fallen in love with you

I will take no advice

I have tasted the poison

what good can sugar do

they say he is mad

and in chains

he must be put

mad is my heart

what is a chain

on my foot

Translation by Nader Khalili

Rumi, Dancing the Flame

Cal-Earth Press, 2001

Kekasih

(سورة الحديد   Al-Hadid, Surah 57, Ayat 3)

Dia Yang Pertama dan Yang Akhir, Yang Lahir dan Yang Batin; Dia mengetahui segala sesuatu.

(سورة الحديد   Al-Hadid, Chapter #57, Verse #3)

He is the First and the Last, the Evident and the Immanent: and He has full knowledge of all things.

Jamal Abdillah
Kekasih Awal Dan Akhir

Malam menanti siang

Siang menanti malam

Bagai berkurun lamanya

Masa memisahkan kita

Hingga ku terlupa

Pada paras rupa

Malam mencari mimpi
Siang mencari erti
Tersingkap seribu makna
Terucap seribu kata
Terkupaslah... rahsia

Sekian lama berpisah

Akhirnya bertemu

Mengenang dosa

Mengenang rindu

Dan ternyatalah

Cintaku yang satu...

Kau kekasih awal dan akhir

Kau kekasih batin dan zahir

Setelah ku sedari

Cintamu yang abadi

Takku harap takku peduli

Walau bulan jatuh kebumi

Dan hadir bidadari

Tak kumimpikan lagi

Kerana kau lebih mengerti 

Kerana kau lebih ku kasihi


The seeking is from You, as well as the benefit.
Who are we,

You are the First, You are the Last !

(Jalaluddin Rumi)

The Sun Never Says

(image source unknown)

Even

After

All this time

The sun never says to the earth,

"You owe

Me"

Look

What happens

With a love like that,

It lights the

Whole

Sky.

The Gift

HAFIZ

(Translations by Daniel Ladinsky)