In the core of your Heart..

you see no center

you’re so ego ridden

within your shell

your senses are

the brain of your body

and your brain

the sense of your soul

remember

that there is a friend

within your soul

once you surpass

the body sense and soul

there is nothing but the friend

Translation by Nader Khalili

Rumi, Dancing the Flame

Cal-Earth Press, 2001 

Don’t forget the nut, being so proud of the shell,

The body has its inward ways,

the five senses. They crack open,

and the Friend is revealed.

Crack open the Friend, you become

the All-One.

Version by Coleman Barks

"Unseen Rain" 

Threshold Books, 1986

Deafened by the voice of desire

you are unaware the Beloved

lives in the core of your heart.

Stop the noise,

and you will hear His voice

in the silence.

Translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi

Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999

I Will Meet You There

Let yourself be silently drawn
by the strange pull of what you really love.
It will not lead you astray.

~ Rumi ~

(Essential Rumi, versions by Coleman Barks)

In Silence The Secrets Speak...

There is a channel between voice and presence,

a way where information flows.

In disciplined silence

 the channel opens.

With wandering talk,

 it closes.

Version by Coleman Barks

Unseen Rain

Threshold Books, 1986

There is a thread from the heart to the lips

where the secret of life is woven.

Words tear the thread

but in silence

the secrets

speak.

Translation by Azima Melita Kolin & Maryam Mafi

Rumi: Hidden Music

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001

In Silence

Hush! Say No More!

Query

I asked the birds
who sing at night
where they learned their songs,
and what they sang about.

They said,


 "We learn from
birds who sing by day,
but what we sing about
is hard for us to say."

"Only those with beak
and wing can fathom joy
in dark and doubt.

The sky may turn to evening
and the sun to moon,

but we sing
of what you do not speak -

how night is sometimes noon,
how any season of the soul
can, 
with time, 
be coaxed to spring."

~ Jean Burden ~

Be Dumbfounded

A Zero-Circle

Be helpless and dumbfounded,

unable to say yes or no.

Then a stretcher will come

from grace to gather us up.

We are too dulleyed to see the beauty.

If we say "Yes we can," we'll be lying.

If we say "No, we don't see it,"

that "No" will behead us

and shut tight our window into spirit.

So let us not be sure of anything,

beside ourselves, and only that, so

miraculous beings come running to help.

Crazed, lying in a zero-circle, mute,

we will be saying finally,

with tremendous eloquence, "Lead us."

When we've totally surrendered to that beauty,

we'll become a mighty kindness.

Mathnawi IV, 3748-3754

Coleman Barks, "Say I am You"

Maypop, 1994

In Silence

Expression always falls short of meaning.

The Prophet said, "Whoever knows God, his tongue falters."

Speech is an astrolabe in its reckoning.

How much does it really know of the sky and the sun?

Or of that Sky which holds this heaven as a speck;

and that Sun which shows this sun to be a grain of sand?

Mathnawi II: 3013-3015

Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski

"Rumi: Daylight", Threshold Books, 1994

REVISIT

Hush! And say no more...
The tip of a tongue doesn't hold any secret
Don't ever try to explain...
Silent!
and
Kiss me on my lips..

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Like This ! Like This !

Hush! Say No More!

Is this the Face of God?.....

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I am the slave of that perfect Moon!

Don't talk to me of suffering, I don't want to hear.

Talk about light, joy and sweetness

and if you can't, keep silent!

Last night Love found me shouting, mad

and beyond myself, and said:

"I am here, why are you so worried and afraid?"

O Love, I am overwhelmed with fear.

"Be silent, let me whisper a secret in your ear,

just nod your head and don't say a word."

Oh how delicate, how subtle is the path of love!

This most precious Moon-like beauty appeared to me!

My heart, is this the Moon or my imagination?

"Be silent, it is not for you to understand

don't you see, you have been blessed."

But what is this, the face of an angel or a man?

"Be silent, what you see is beyond angels or men."

But what is it, tell me, or I will go out of my mind.

"Do not torment yourself, leave this house of illusions

and say no more."

"O please", I begged, "tell me, is this the face of God"

My heart nodded silently.

Translated by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi

"Rumi: Hidden Music", HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001

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i'm loyal

to the image and beauty

of my beloved

please speak of that image only

and say no more

whenever you're with me

speak only about

the generosity of candles

the generosity of the sugarcane

and say no more

don't speak of any suffering

show me the treasure that waits

at the end of the road

if you're ignorant of the path

then say no more

last night i was in flame

my beloved saw me and said

"i'm here at last

don't tear your clothes

lament no more"

i begged my beloved

to understand my condition

to sense my fear

my love said "when i'm present

you must seek no more

i'll whisper the words

of secrets into your ear

and you must promise not to answer

just nod your head

and say no more

the face of a sweetheart

has penetrated your heart

the tenderness is all there is

your journey is the journey of love

sense it to the depth and say no more"

i asked if the face

belongs to a human

or that of an angel

"neither this nor that

sense it but say no more"

i said if you don't

identify this for me at once

my life will be shattered

"be shattered at once

but say no more

you're dwelling in

a house filled with

images and dreams

pack all your belongings

move out but say no more"

you're simply expressing

the experience of God

i said to the beloved

"yes this is the answer

but for God's sake say no more"

Translation by Nader Khalili
"Rumi -- Fountain of Fire", Cal-Earth Press, 1994

(credit : http://islamiyya.xtgem.com)

I serve that orb in heaven

say no word but Orb!

speak to me of nothing

but sweetness and light

Not of bother, but of treasure

and if you cannot find the words

don't bother.

Yesterday a craze came over me

Love saw, came up to me:

Here I am,

don't shout,

don't rip off your shirt,

hush, shh!

I spoke:

Love, I'm scared of that other thing

There is no other thing, say nothing!

I will whisper secrets in your ear

you just nod in asseveration

speak in semaphore

A nova, a celestial love

burst bright above the heartpath

so exquisite the quest of heart,

it cannot be expressed

I asked:

Heart, what orb is this?

heart intimated

beyond fathom

be quiet, forget!

Is this the face of man or angel?

Beyond men and angels

hush!

What is it? Tell me, I'm in a whirl

Whirl on, keep quiet!

You sit within this room

whose walls reflect

mere forms and suppositions

Get up, go out, move on,

keep quiet!

I said:

Heart, befather me,

for doesn't this match God's description?

Yes, my son, it does,

but do not tell.

Translation by Franklin D. Lewis
"Rumi -- Past and Present, East and West"
Oneworld Publications, Oxford, 2000

(credit : http://dymash.files.wordpress.com)

The Secret

Pssssstt!!! PSSSSSSTTTTT...!!!
Hey you ! Yeah YOU !
Wanna hear a secret? (or rather,
wanna read a secret ?)
come nearer please....! nearer....

The secret will be revealed when you drag your mouse, highlighting the white box below...

 Start HERE-> 
(to highlight - left click and hold your mouse button, drag it to the bottom of the box)

A SECRET IS NOT A SECRET .....

WHEN IT CAN BE TOLD... !!!

<- End HERE

GOT IT ?

"I followed my own path of love,
and now I am in bad repute.

How can a secret remain veiled,
if from every tongue it drips?"

(Hafiz Al Shirazi)

( سورة التوبة , At-Taubah, Chapter #9, Verse #128)

"In Silence"

A guide has entered this life in silence.

His message is only heard in silence.

Take a sip of his precious wine

and lose yourself.

Dont insult the greatness of his love,

for he helps all those who suffer, in silence.

Polish the mirror between the breaths.

Go with him beyond words.

He knows your every deed.

He is the one who moves the wheel of heaven,

in silence.

Every thought is buried in your heart;

He will reveal them one by one, in silence.

Turn each of your thoughts into a bird

and let them fly to the other world.

One is an owl, one is a falcon, one is a crow.

Each one is different from the others

but they are all the same in silence.

To see the Moon that cannot be seen

turn your eyes inward and look at yourself,

in silence.

In this world and the next,

dont talk about this and that;

Let him show you everything,

shining as one . . .

in silence.

(Ode 1897-Version by Jonathan Star, "Rumi - In the Arms of the Beloved",
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York 1997)

Like This ! Like This !

TAM DALYELL, one of the blog sites I regularly visit, wrote the following comment in responding to one of his readers:-

"It's like the The Night asking The Day when it dawns, "Where did your light come from? whereby The Day snuffs its light out, answering "If you can tell me where the light, has gone to, I'll surely tell you where it comes from."

It caught my attention because I remember teasing my now-adult-nephew quite similarly to what Tam Dalyell had written above. I lighted up a match stick and held up the flame to my nephew's face. I then, puffed it out.

"Tell me, where has the flame gone ? I'll give you 50sen if you can answer it..".

The 50 sen "prize-money" went up to RM1, then to RM5 and finally to RM50. At the end, my nephew gave up. The thing is, I also did not know what to tell ..... ha! ha! ha!

With that, I would like to dedicate here, one of the poem from Jalaluddin Rumi..

     

"LIKE THIS !"

(Jalaluddin Rumi)

If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfaction of all our sexual wanting will look, lift your face and say,

Like this ! (image credit : fotolia)

When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say,

 



Like this ? (image credit : imageshack)

If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is, or what "God's fragrance" means, lean your head toward him or her. Keep your face there close,

(image credit : acclaimimages) Like this ! 

When someone quotes the old poetic image about clouds gradually uncovering the moon, slowly loosen knot by knot the strings of your robe,

(image credit : thebsreport) Like this ?

If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead, don't try to explain the miracle. Kiss me on the lips,

Like this !  Like this ! 

(image credit : down-bedding-delights)

                                             

  When someone asks what it means to "die for love," point

(image credit : ghostwritersandy) here ! 

If someone asks how tall I am,

frown and measure with your fingers

the space between the creases on your forehead.

This tall ! (image credit : scientificamerican)

 The soul sometimes leaves the body, then returns. When someone doesn't believe that, walk back into my house.

   Like this ! (image credit : tvdsb)

I am a sky where spirits live.

Stare into this deepening blue,
While the breeze says a secret.

Like this ! 

When someone asks what there is to do,
light the candle in his hand.

 



Like this ! (image credit : somersetkyobits)

How did Joseph's scent come to Jacob?

Huuuu....... 

(image credit : deviantart)

How did Jacob's sight return?

Huuuuu....... (image credit : netgautam)

A little wind cleans the eyes.

(image credit : qis.net) Like this ! 

When Shams comes back from Tabriz,

he'll put just his head around the edge of the door to surprise us.

Like this !! 

(Version by Coleman Barks, "Like This", Maypop, 1990)