Life Is Like A Cup of Coffee

Aidil Adha

PLEASE CLICK HERE

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.

O Lord who knows the secret, preserve us

from these attractions by the attraction of Your grace!

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

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

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...