[Sunlight] Amazed Mouth -- Ghazal 1296

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Amazed Mouth

The soul, a wide listening sky
with thousands of candles: when

anything is sold, soul gets given
in the cash: people waiting at a

door, a ladder leaning on a roof,
someone climbing down, the market

square bright with understanding.
Listening opens its amazed mouth.

-- Ode 1296
Version by Coleman Barks
"The Soul of Rumi"
HarperSanFrancisco, 2001

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[Sunlight] Amazed Mouth -- Ghazal 1296

[Sunlight] “Borrowed certainty”

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If your knowledge of fire has been turned
to certainty by words alone,
then seek to be cooked by the fire itself.
Don't abide in borrowed certainty.
There is no real certainty until you burn;
if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.

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Ze âtesh az `elmet yaqin shod az sokhan
pokhtagi ju dar yaqin manzel ma-kon
Tâ na-suzi nist ân `ayn al-yaqin
in yaqin khvâhi dar âtesh dar neshin

-- Mathnawi II :860-861
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra


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[Sunlight] “Borrowed certainty”

[Sunlight] “Show but your face – the world is filled with light!” – Ghazal 1960

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O Sun, fill our house once more with light!
Make happy all your friends and blind your foes!
Rise from behind the hill, transform the stones
To rubies and the sour grapes to wine!
O Sun, make our vineyard fresh again,
And fill the steppes with houris and green cloaks!
Physician of the lovers, heaven's lamp!
Rescue the lovers! Help the suffering!
Show but your face - the world is filled with light!
But if you cover it, it's the darkest night!

-- Ghazal (Ode) 1960
Translation by Annemarie Schimmel
"Look! This is Love - Poems of Rumi"
Shambhala, 1991

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âftâbâ bâr-e dîgar khâne(a) râ por nur kon
dustân râ shâd gardân doshmanân râ kur kon

az pas-e kuhî bar-â-wo sang-hâ râ la'l sâz
bâr-e dîgar ghure(a)-hâ râ pokhte(a)-wo angur kon

âftâba bâr-e dîgar bâgh râ sar sabz kon
dasht râ-wo kesht râ por holle(a)-wo por jur kon

eyy(ay) tabîb-e 'âsheqân-o ay cherâgh-e âseman
'âsheqân râ dastgîr-o châre(a)-ye ranjur kon

gar jahân por nur khvâhî dast az ru bâz gîr
var jahân târîk khvahî ruy râ mastur kon

- Persian transliteration courtesy of
Behnaz Hashemipour from Isfahan, Iran

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[Sunlight] “Show but your face – the world is filled with light!” – Ghazal 1960

[Sunlight] “How long?” – Ghazal 408

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how long
can i lament
with this depressed
heart and soul

how long
can i remain
a sad autumn
ever since my grief
has shed my leaves

the entire space
of my soul
is burning in agony

how long can i
hide the flames
wanting to rise
out of this fire

how long can one suffer
the pain of hatred
of another human
a friend behaving like an enemy

with a broken heart
how much more
can i take the message
from body to soul

i believe in love
i swear by love
believe me my love

how long
like a prisoner of grief
can i beg for mercy

you know i'm not
a piece of rock or steel
but hearing my story
even water will become
as tense as a stone

if i can only recount
the story of my life
right out of my body
flames will grow

-- Ghazal (Ode) 408
Translation by Nader Khalili
"Rumi, Fountain of Fire"
Burning Gate Press, Los Angeles, 1994

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[Sunlight] Intuitive wisdom

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Whenever a feeling of aversion comes into the heart of a good soul,
it's not without significance.
Consider that intuitive wisdom to be a Divine attribute,
not a vain suspicion:
the light of the heart has apprehended
intuitively from the Universal Tablet.

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Har karâhat dar del-e mard-e behi
chon dar âyad az fanni na-bud tohi
Vasf-e Haqq dân ân ferâsat-râ nah vahm
nur-e del az Lawh-e Koll kardast fahm

-- Mathnawi VI:2743-2744
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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