Sunlight: June 2011

Thursday, June 30, 2011

[Sunlight] You are my ball -- Ghazal 322

Today, Sunlight offers Ghazal (Ode) 322, in a poetic translation by Nader Khalili, and a literal translation by A.J. Arberry

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i've come to take you
with me
even if i must drag you along
but first must steal your heart
then settle you in my soul

i've come as a spring
to lay beside your blossoms
to feel the glory of happiness
and spread your flowers around

i've come to show you off
as the adornment in my house
and elevate you to the heavens
as the prayers of those in love

i've come to take back
the kiss you once stole
either return it with grace
or i must take it by force

you're my life
you're my soul
please be my last prayer
my heart must hold you forever

from the lowly earth
to the high human soul
there are a lot more
than a thousand stages

since i've taken you along
from town to town
no way will i abandon
you halfway down this road

though you're in my hands
though i can throw you around
like a child and a ball
i'll always need to chase after you

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

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I have come so that, tugging your ear, I may draw you to me,
unheart and unself you, plant you in my heart and soul.
Rosebush, I have come a sweet springtide unto you, to seize
you very gently in my embrace and squeeze you.
I have come to adorn you in this worldly abode, to convey you
above the skies like lovers' prayers.
I have come because you stole a kiss from an idol fair; give it
back with a glad heart, master, for I will seize you back.
What is a mere rose? You are the All*, you are the speaker of
the command "Say"*. If no one else knows you, since you are I, I
know you.
You are my soul and spirit, you are my Fatiha-chanter*, be-
come altogether the Fatiha, so that I may chant you in my heart.
You are my quarry and game, though you have sprung from
the snare; return to the snare, and if you will not, I will drive
you.
The lion said to me, "You are a wonderous deer; be gone!
Why do you run in my wake so swiftly? I will tear you to pieces."
Accept my blow, and advance like a hero's shield;
give your ear to naught but the bowstring, that I may bend you
like a bow.
So many thousand stages there are from earth's bounds to
man; I have brought you from city to city, I will not leave you by
the roadside.
Say nothing, froth not, do not raise the lid of the cauldron;
simmer well, and be patient, for I am cooking you.
No, for you are a lion's whelp hidden in a deer's body: I will
cause you suddenly to transcend the deer's veil.
You are my ball, and you run in the curved mallet of my
decree; though I am making you to run, I am still running in your track.

-- Translation by A.J. Arberry
"Mystical Poems of Rumi 1"
The University of Chicago Press, 1968

* A pun on the Persian "gul" ("rose") and "kull" ("all").
* Say: Many passages of the Koran open with the word "say".
*Fatiha-chanter (Fâtiha-khwân): The "Fatiha" ("Opening")
is the first chapter of the Koran, containing praise of God
and prayers for guidance. A cantor with an exceptional voice
may chant this chapter in the course of an assembly of
worship. (Additional clarification courtesy of Ibrahim Gamard.)

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

[Sunlight] He who is drunk with God -- Ghazal 391

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Oh minstrel, play this tune: "Our Friend has
come drunk, pure and faithful Life has come drunk!"
If, like sparks, He should put on the robe of
Severity, I will know Him, for He has come drunk to us in
that guise many times!
If, He should pour out my water and break my
jug -- say nothing, oh brother, for this Water-carrier has come
drunk!
I try to deceive my Drunkard, and He smiles:
"Look at this simple man, from whence has he come drunk?
Are you trying to deceive that Person the least
of whose words makes water and fire selfless, earth and air
drunk?"
I said to Him, "If I die and Thou comest to my
grave, I will jump up shouting, 'That sweet-faced Beloved has
come drunk!'"
He said, "How should the spirit of him who
receives this breath die? He who is drunk with God subsists
with Him forever."
Behold ineffable Love, filling the cuplike spirit!
Behold the Face of the Saki, who has come from the realm of
Subsistence, laughing and drunk.
Everyone in the world has chosen a friend, and
ours is Love -- from the time of Alast It has been drunk
without you and me.

-- Ghazal (Ode) 391
Translation by William C. Chittick
"The Sufi Path of Love"
SUNY Press, Albany, 1983

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

[Sunlight] God's creative energy is our parent

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What is the real meaning of "the inner nature of his parent"*?
God's creative energy is our parent:
the divine impulse is the kernel; the physical parenting is just the shell.
O nut-like body, know that Love is your friend:
inspired by Love the soul will break away the shell
in search of the kernel.

"Serr-e ab"* cheh bud ab-e mâ son`-e Ust
son` maghzast va ab surat cho pust
`Eshq dân ay fondoq-e tan dustet
jânet juyad maghz o kubad pustet

*Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad.

-- Mathnawi V:1931-1932
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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Monday, June 27, 2011

[Sunlight] Give yourself a kiss -- Ghazal 2061

Sunlight presents Ghazal 2061, in poetic version by
Coleman Barks and in translation by A.J. Arberry:

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Give yourself a kiss.
If you live in China, don't look
somewhere else, in Tibet, or Mongolia.

If you want to hold the beautiful one,
hold yourself to yourself.

When you kiss the Beloved,
touch your own lips with your own fingers.

The beauty of every woman and every man
is your own beauty.

The confusion of your hair
obscures that sometimes.

An artist comes to paint you
and stands with his mouth open.

Your love reveals your beauty,
but all covering would disappear
if only for a moment your holding-back
would sit before your generosity
and ask,
"Sir, who are you?"
At that,
Shams' life-changing face
gives you a wink.

-- Version by Coleman Barks
"Like This"
Maypop, 1990

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Give yourself a kiss, silvery-bodied idol; you who are in
Cathay, do not search for yourself in Kotan.
If you would draw a silvery-bodied one into your bosom,
where is the like of you? You must kiss the Beloved, then caress
your own mouth.
For the sake of your beauty are the robes of the houris; the
beauty of every man or woman is the reflection of your lovely face.
The veil over your beauty is the tresses of your hair, else the
light of you would have shone out, O sweet of chin.
The painter of the body came towards the idols of the thoughts;
his hand and heart were broken, his mouth stood open.
This painted cage is the veil of the bird on the heart; you have
not recognized the heart because….. of the heart-breaking case.
The heart flung off the veil from the clay of Adam, and all of
the angels prostrated themselves.
The intermediary would vanish if only for a moment love's
Turk sat down before his grace, saying "O Chelebi, who are
you?"*
The eye would be endowed with sight of the unseen, if the
glance of Shams-e Din, Pride of all of Tabriz, stole a wink
at you.

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

* The Turks were well known for their beauty and cruelty.
Chelebi in Turkish means "sir."

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Friday, June 24, 2011

[Sunlight] Paradise is encompassed with pain

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Your resolutions and purposes now and then are fulfilled
so that through hope your heart might form another intention which He
might once again destroy.
For if He were to keep you completely from success,
you would despair: how would the seed of expectation be sown?
If your heart did not sow that seed,
and then encounter barrenness,
how would it recognize its submission to the Divine will?
By their failures lovers are made aware of their Lord.
Lack of success is the guide to Paradise:
Pay attention to the tradition,
"Paradise is encompassed with pain."*

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`Azm-hâ o qasd-hâ dar mâ-jarâ
gâh gâhi râst mi âyad torâ
Tâ be-tab`-e ân delet niyat konad
bâr-e digar niyatet-râ be-shekand
Var be-kolli bi morâdet dâshti
del shodi nawmid amal kay kâshti
Var ne-kâridi amal az `urish
kay shodi paydâ baru maqhurish
`Âsheqân az bi morâdihâ-ye khvish
bâ khabar gashtand az Mawlâ-ye khvish
Bi morâdi shod qelâvoz-e Behesht
"Huffat al-Jannat" shenaw ay khvosh-seresht

*Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad.

-- Mathnawi III: 4462-4467
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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Thursday, June 23, 2011

[Sunlight] The Sweetest of All Things -- Ghazal 2037

Today, Sunlight offers Ghazal (Ode) 2037, from Rumi's "Diwan-e
Shams", in versions by Jonathan Star and Coleman Barks:

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"The Sweetest of All Things"

Since you are the one who takes life
It is the sweetest of all things to die.
Life is sweet
But merging with you is far sweeter.

Come into the garden!
Join the Friend of the Truth!
In his garden you'll drink the Water of Life,
though it seems like fire to die.

In one moment someone dies,
In the next moment someone is born.
There is a lot of coming and going
no one really dies
nor will I ever die.

Forget the body, become pure spirit.
Dance from here to the other world.
Don't stop Don't try to escape,
even if you are afraid to die.

I swear were it not for His pure nature
The wheel of heaven would turn to dust.
Merge with Him now,
And you'll be sweeter than halva
when it comes time to die.

Why hold on to this life? –
True living comes by giving up this life.
Why cling to one piece of gold? –
it is a mine of gold to die.

Escape from this cage
and breathe the scented air of His garden.
Break this hard shell –
It's like a shining pearl to die.

When God calls and pulls you close,
Going is like paradise –
It's like a heavenly river to die.

Death is only a mirror
And your true nature is reflected there.
See what the mirror is saying –
it's quite a sight to die!

If you are kind and faithful
Your death will also be that way.
If you are cruel and faithless,
that is the way you will die.

If you are like Joseph,
full of goodness,
That's how your mirror will be.
If not, you will see
only fear and torment
when it comes time to die.

These words are sweet,
but they always fade.
Sh . . . The eternal Khezr
and the Water of Life
have no idea what it means to die.

-- Version by Jonathan Star
"A Garden Beyond Paradise: The Mystical Poetry of Rumi"
Bantam Books, 1992

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Underwater in the Fountain

When you die into the soul, you lift
the lid on the cooking pot. You see

the truth of what you've been doing.
It looks sad and terrible before the

crossover move that lets nine levels
of ascension turn into ordinary ground:

silence, conversation with Khidr, blind
and deaf, underwater in the fountain.

-- Version by Coleman Barks, with Nevit Ergin
"The Glance"
Viking-Penguin, 1999

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

[Sunlight] Your light is brighter than the Moon -- Ghazal 2798

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My love, you are closer to me than myself,
you shine through my eyes.
Your light is brighter than the Moon.
Step into the garden
so all the flowers, even the tall poplar
can kneel before your beauty.
Let your voice silence the lily
famous for its hundred tongues.
When you want to be kind you are
softer than the soul but when you withdraw
you can be so cold and harsh.

Dear one, you can be wild and rebellious but
when you meet him face to face
his charm will make you docile like the earth.
Throw away your shield and bare your chest
there is no stronger protection than him.

That's why when the dervish withdraws
from the world he covers all the cracks in the wall,
so the outside light cannot come though.
He knows that only the inner light
illuminates his world.

-- Ghazal (Ode) 2798
Translated by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
Rumi: Hidden Music
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

[Sunlight] As soon as you see the dawn, put out the candle

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Think neither of being accepted nor of being turned away,
but always consider the Divine command and prohibition.
Then suddenly the bird of Divine attraction
will fly toward you from its nest:
as soon as you see the dawn, put out the candle.
When the eyes have become piercing,
it's the dawn's light that illuminates them:
in the shell the illumined eye beholds the kernel.
In each speck it beholds the everlasting Sun;
in the drop it beholds the entire Sea.

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Nah qabul andish nah radd ay gholâm
amr-râ o nahy-râ mi bin modâm
Morgh-e jazbeh nâ-gahân parrad ze `oshsh
chon be-didi sobh shama` ânkeh be-kosh
Cheshm-hâ chon shod gozâreh nur-e ust
maghz-hâ mi binad u dar `ayn-e pust
Binad andar zarreh Khvorshid-e baqâ
binad andar qatreh koll-e bahr-râ

-- Mathnawi VI:1479-1482
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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Monday, June 20, 2011

[Sunlight] Walking Out of the Treasury Building -- Ghazal 805

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Walking Out of the Treasury Building

Lord, the air smells good today, straight from the
mysteries within the inner courts of God.
A grace like new clothes thrown
across the garden, free medicine for everybody.
The trees in their prayer, the birds in praise,
the first blue violets kneeling.
Whatever came from Being is caught up in being,
drunkenly forgetting the way back.

One man turns and sees his birth
pulling separate from the others.
He fills with light, and colors change here.
He drinks it in, and everyone is wonderfully
drunk, shining with his beauty.
I can't really say that I feel the pain of others,
when the whole world seems so sweet.

Face to face with a lion, I grow leonine.
Walking out of the Treasury Building, I feel generous.
Anyone still sober in this weather must be afraid
of people, afraid what they'll say.
Enough talking. If we eat too much greenery,
we're going to smell like vegetables.

-- Ghazal (Ode) 805
Version by Coleman Barks
"Open Secret,"
Threshold Books, 1984

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Friday, June 17, 2011

[Sunlight] Contentment with God's will

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The sea doesn't let the fish out,
nor does it let the creatures of the earth in.
Water is the original home of the fish;
the weighty animal is of the earth.
Nothing we do can change this.
The lock of Divine destiny is strong,
and the only opener is God:
cling to surrender and contentment with God's will.
Though the atoms, one by one, should become keys,
yet this opening is not effected except by divine Majesty.
When you forget your own scheming,
happiness will come to you from your spiritual guide.
When you are forgetful of self,
you are remembered by God;
when you have become God's slave,
then you are set free.

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Mâhiyân-râ bahr na-gozârad berun
khâkiyân-râ bahr na-gozârad darun
Asl-e mâhi âb va hayavân az gelast
hileh o tadbir injâ bâtelast
Qofl zaftast va goshâyandeh Khodâ
dast dar taslim zan va andar rezâ
Zarreh zarreh gar shavad meftâh-hâ
in goshâyesh nist joz az Kebriyâ
Chon farâmushet shavad tadbir-e khvish
yâbi ân bakht-javân az pir-e khvish
Chon farâmush khvodi yâdet konand
bandeh gashti ânkeh âzâdet konand

-- Mathnawi III: 3071-3076
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

[Sunlight] The Intellectual -- Ghazal 1957

Sunlight offers Ghazal (Ode) 1957, in versions by Helminski
and Barks, and in translation by A.J. Arberry:

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"The Intellectual"

The intellectual is always showing off;
the lover is always getting lost.
The intellectual runs away, afraid of drowning;
the whole business of love is to drown in the sea.
Intellectuals plan their repose;
lovers are ashamed to rest.
The lover is always alone, even surrounded with people;
like water and oil, he remains apart.
The man who goes to the trouble
of giving advice to a lover
gets nothing. He's mocked by passion.
Love is like musk. It attracts attention.
Love is a tree, and lovers are its shade.

-- Version by Kabir Helminski
"Love is a Stranger"
Threshold Books, 1993

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An intellectual is all the time showing off.
Lovers dissolve and become bewildered.

Intellectuals try not to drown,
while the whole purpose of love
is drowning.
Intellectuals invent
ways to rest, and then lie down
in those beds.
Lovers feel ashamed
of comforting ideas.
Youve seen a glob
of oil on water? Thats how a lover
sits with intellectuals, there, but alone
in a circle of himself.
Some intellectual
tries to give sound advice to a lover.
All he hears back is, I love you.
I love you.
Love is musk. Dont deny it
when you smell the scent!
Love is a tree.
Lovers, the shade of the long branches.

To the intellectual mind, a child must learn
to grow up and be adult.
In the station of love,
you see old men getting younger and younger.

Shams chose to live low in the roots
for you. So now, he soars in the air
as your sublimely articulating love!

-- Version by Coleman Barks
(Developed from the translation by A. J. Arberry)
"Rumi: Like This"
Maypop, 1990

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The intellectual is all the time engaged in showing off; the lover is all
the time becoming unselfed and distraught.
Intellectuals are running away, afraid of drowning; the whole business
and trade of love is drowning in the sea.
Intellectuals find repose by contriving repose; lovers think it a shame
to be attached to repose.
The lover will be in a circle, alone from everyone, just as oil and
water, though in the same place, are separate.
The man who goes to the trouble of offering advice to lovers gets nothing
for his pains but to be a mockery of passion.
Love has the scent of musk, it is therefore notorious; how can musk
escape such notoriety?
Love is like a tree, and lovers are the shade of that tree; though the
shade fall afar, yet it must attend the tree.
For the station of intellect a child must become an old man; in the
station of love you see an old man become youthful.
Shams-e Tabrizi, whoever has chosen to be lowly in love for you, thereby
rises to heights sublime as your love.

-- Translation by A.J. Arberry
"Mystical Poems of Rumi 2"
University of Chicago Press, 1979, 1991

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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

[Sunlight] His kisses leave their mark -- Ghazal 419

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That thieving Heart-ravisher gave me a kiss and
went! What would have happened if instead of one He had
given me six or seven?
Every lip He kisses bears its marks: It splits and
cracks from His lips' sweetness.
Another mark is that mad desire for the lip of
the Water of Life makes Love stir up a thousand fires and
furnaces every instant.
Still another mark is that the body, like the
heart, runs after that kiss with haste and speed.
It becomes slender and delicate like the Friend's
lips--how marvellous! Slenderness from the fire of a boundless
Beloved!

-- Ghazal (Ode) 419
Translation by William C. Chittick
"The Sufi Path of Love"
SUNY Press, Albany, 1983

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

[Sunlight] In union with God, of what value are signs?

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In union with God, of what value are signs?
The one who is blind to Essence
sees Divine action through the attributes:
having lost the Essence he is limited to evidences.
Those who are united with God
are absorbed in the Essence.
How should they focus on His qualities?
When your head is submerged in the sea,
how will your eye fall on the color of the water?

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

To jehat gu man berunam az jehât
dar vesâl âyât ku yâ bayyenât
Son` binad mard-e mahjub az sefât
dar sefât ânast ku gom kard Zât
Vâselân chon gharq-e Zâtand ay pesar
kay konand andar sefât-e U nazar
Chonke andar qa`r ju bâshad saret
kay be-rang-e âb oftad manzaret

-- Mathnawi II:2811-2814
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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Monday, June 13, 2011

[Sunlight] The pattern improves -- Ghazal 922

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The Pattern Improves

When love itself comes to kiss you,
don't hold back! When the king

goes hunting, the forest smiles.
Now the king has become the place

and all the players, prey, bystander,
bow, arrow, hand and release. How

does that feel? Last night's dream
enters these open eyes. When we die

and turn to dust, each particle will
be the whole. You hear a mote whirl

taking form? My music. Love, calm,
patient. The Friend has waded down

into existence, gotten stuck, and
will not be seen again outside of

this. We sometimes make spiderwebs
of smoke and salvia, fragile thought

packets. Leave thinking to the one
who gave intelligence. In silence

there is eloquence. Stop weaving
and watch how the pattern improves.

-- Ghazal (Ode) 922
Version by Coleman Barks
"The Soul of Rumi"
HarperSanFrancisco, 2001

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Friday, June 10, 2011

[Sunlight] How can you remain blind to His command?

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You make a hundred resolutions to journey somewhere:
He draws you somewhere else.
He turns the horse's bridle in every direction
that the untrained horse may gain knowledge of the rider.
The clever horse is well-paced
because it knows a rider is mounted upon it.
He fixed your heart on a hundred passionate desires,
disappointed you, and then broke your heart.
Since He broke the wings of your first intention,
how do you doubt the existence of the Wing-breaker?
Since His ordainment snapped the cord of contrivance,
how can you remain blind to His Command?

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Sad `azimat mi koni bahr-e safar
mi keshânad mar torâ jâ-ye degar
Zân be-gardânad bahr-e su ân legâm
tâ khabar yâbad ze fâres asb-e khâm
Asb-e zirak sâr zân nikupay ast
ku hami dânad keh fâres bar vay ast
U delet-râ bar dosad sawdâ be-bast
bi morâdet kard pas del-râ shekast
Chon shekast U bâl-e ân rây-e nokhost
chon na-shod hasti-ye Bâl-eshkan dorost
Chon qazâyesh habl-e tadbiret sokost
chon na-shod bar to qazâ-ye ân dorost

-- Mathnawi III: 4456-4461
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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Thursday, June 09, 2011

[Sunlight] I can't be without you -- Ghazal 553

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I can be without anyone
but not without you.
You twist my heart, dwell in my mind
and fill my eyes, you are my joy
I can't be without you.
You are my sleep, my rest, the water I drink.
You are my clarity, my dignity, my world
I can't be without you.
Sometimes you are kind, sometimes unfaithful,
you break my heart but
my love, my essence, do not go away
I can't be without you.
You are the head I am the feet
you are the hand, I am your banner
if you leave, I will perish
I can't be without you.
You have erased my image, taken my sleep
you've torn me away from everybody but
I can't be without you.
I find no joy in life or relief in death.
Why don't you say it too
I can't be without you.

-- Ghazal (Ode) 553
Translated by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
Rumi: Hidden Music
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001

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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

[Sunlight] The treasure is within -- Ghazal 1426

Here, Sunlight offers Ghazal (Ode) 1426, in a version by
Jonathan Star, and in translation by William Chittick:

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"The Dome of the Inner Sky"

The Great King is within me.
He is my dearest friend.

Don't look at my sallow face,
Look at how I stand with legs of iron!
Always turning toward that One
who gave me life.

I am the glorious Sun,
the ocean laden with pearls.
Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven,
Outside, the lowly earth.

I travel in this world like a bee in a jar.
But don't listen to my woeful buzzing -
My house is filled with honey!

O heart, if you want to join us,
raise yourself
to the dome of the inner sky.
Enter the fortress that no one can break.

The vast and mighty waters
move the grinding stones of heaven.
I am that great wheel,
crying so sweetly,
turning with the flow of rushing water.

Men, demons, and spirits all follow my command.
Can't you see that I am Solomon,
with a shimmering seal on my ring?

Why should I be weary
when every cell of my body is bursting with life?
Why should I be a donkey's slave
when I ride upon a magical horse?
Why should I be less than the Moon
when there are no scorpions at my feet?
Why should I stay at the bottom of a well
when a strong rope is in my hand?

I've built a place for the falcons of my soul -
Fly this way, O birds of spirit,
for I am surrounded by a hundred mighty towers!

I am the rays of the Sun
dancing through the windows of every house.
I am carnelian, gold, and rubies,
even though this body is made of water and clay.

Whatever pearl you seek,
look for the pearl within the pearl!

The surface of the earth says,
"The treasure is within."
The glowing jewel says,
"Don't be fooled by my beauty -
the light of my face
comes from the candle of my spirit."

What else can I say?
You will only hear
what you are ready to hear.
Don't nod your head,
Don't try to fool me -
the truth of what you see
is written all over your face!

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

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How should you know what kind of King is my inward
companion? Look not at my yellow face, for I have legs
of iron!

I have turned my face totally to that King who brought
me here: I have a thousand praises for Him who created me.

One moment I am the sun, the next an ocean of pearls.
Inwardly I have the majesty of the spheres, outwardly
the lowliness of the earth.

Within this jar of the world I wander like a bee - look
not only at my wailful buzzing, for I have a house full of
honey!

Oh heart, if you are seeking us, come up to the blue
dome - my palace is a fortress that gives me the security
of the secure.

How awesome is the water than turns the millstone
of the heavens! I am the water's wheel - that is why my
cries are so sweet!

Since you see that devils, mankind, and jinn all follow
my command, can you not understand that I am Solomon
and that on my ring is a seal?

Why should I be withered? Every one of my particles
has blossomed! Why should I be an ass's slave? I am
mounted upon Buraq!*

Why should I be less than the moon? No scorpion has
bit my foot! Why should I not come out of this well? I
have grasped a strong rope!

I have built a house for the spirit's pigeons - fly in
this direction, oh bird of the spirit, for I possess a
hundred inaccessible towers!

I am a ray of the Sun, though I wander about all these
houses. I am carnelian and gold and rubies, though I was
born or water and clay!

Whatever pearl you see, seek another within it! Every
dustmote says, "Inwardly I am a treasure!"

Every jewel says to you, "Be not satisfied with my beauty,
for the light in my face derives from the candle of my
awareness!"

I will be silent, for you have not the intelligence to
understand - do not nod your head, try not to deceive me,
for I have an eye that discerns intelligence.

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

* Buraq: the name of the miraculous steed which carried the
Prophet Muhammad on his famous Night Journey [Mi`raaj]
from Mecca to the Temple site in Jerusalem, and straight up
into the Heavens. It was described as smaller than a mule,
but bigger than a donkey, and it had wings. It travelled as fast
as lightning [barq] to wherever its glance looked next.
(Footnote courtesy of Dr. Ibrahim Gamard.)

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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

[Sunlight] Open a window to God

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Listen, open a window to God
and begin to delight yourself
by gazing upon Him through the opening.

The business of love is
to make that window in the heart,
for the breast is illumined
by the beauty of the Beloved.

Gaze incessantly on the face of the Beloved!
Listen, this is in your power, my friend.

-- Mathnawi VI, 3095-3097
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996

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Monday, June 06, 2011

[Sunlight] "The Pleiades" -- Ghazal 2949

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"The Pleiades"

In absence, aloe wood burns fragrant.
The love we feel is smoke from that.

Existence gets painted with non-existence,
its source, the fire behind the screen.

Smoke born of this fire hides the fire!
Pass through the smoke. Soul, a moving

river; body, the riverbed. Soul can
break the circle of fate and habit.

Take hold the hand of absence and let
it draw you through the Pleiades,

giving up wet and dry, hot and cold.
You become a confidante of Shams Tabriz.

You see clearly the glory of nothing
and stand, inexplicably, there.

-- Ghazal (Ode) 2949
Version by Coleman Barks, with Nevit Ergin
"The Glance"
Viking-Penguin, 1999

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Friday, June 03, 2011

[Sunlight] Other wakefulness

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The more awake one is to the material world,
the more one is asleep to spirit.
When our soul is asleep to God,
other wakefulness closes the door of Divine grace.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Har keh bidârast dar khvâb-tar
hast bidâriyesh az khvâbash batar
Chun ba-Haqq bidâr na-bud jân-e mâ
hast bidâri cho dar bandân-e mâ

-- Mathnawi I:409-410
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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Thursday, June 02, 2011

[Sunlight] Love is a Stranger -- Ghazal 1769

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"Love is a Stranger"

Heart came on solid footing with breath refined
to warn the best of communities.
Heart placed your head
like a pen on the page of love.

We are joyous pennants in your just wind.
Master, to where do you dance?

"Toward the land of liberation,
toward the plain of non-existence."

Master, tell us which non-existence you mean.
"The ear of eternity knows the letter of eternity."

Love is a stranger with a strange language,
like an Arab in Persia. I have brought a story;
it is strange, like the one who tells it.
Listen to your servant.

Joseph's face enlightened the well in which he was suspended.
His imprisonment became a palace
with orchards and meadows, a paradise,
a royal hall, and a chamber of sanctity.

Just as you toss a stone into the water,
the water at that very moment parts to receive it.
Just as a cloudy night is dispelled by a clear dawn,
from his humiliation and loss he views high heaven.

Reason, do not envy my mouth.
God witnesses the blessings.
Though the tree drinks from hidden roots,
we see the display of its branches.
Whatever the earth took from heaven,
it yields up honestly in spring.

Whether you have stolen a bead or a jewel,
whether you have raised a flag or a pen,
the night is gone and the day has arrived
and the sleeper shall see what he has dreamed.

-- Ghazal (Ode) 1769
Version by Kabir Helminski
"Love is a Stranger"
Threshold Books, 1993

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Wednesday, June 01, 2011

[Sunlight] If you have newly become a lover -- Ghazal 742

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Out of jealousy, Love makes the lover appear
like everyone's enemy. Once it has made people reject him, he
turns to It.
He who is worthy of the creatures is not worthy
for Love -- only the whore's soul marries a hundred husbands.
Since the lover is not suited for "others," let
them all reject him -- then the King of Love will make him His
sitting companion.
When the creatures drive him from themselves,
he cuts himself off from their company; he accustoms his
outward and inward to sweet-natured Love.
But when the creatures accept him, his mind
drags him in their direction and his heart turns furtively this
way and that toward anyone's love.
When Love sees this It says, "My tresses have
thrown a shadow, so the lover smells there the fragrance of
musk and ambergris.
I will make these two scents the enemy of his
mind and brain -- he will have to abandon both.
Though the lover has sniffed the musk in
remembrance of Me, only a beginner on the Path wanders like
a child saying, 'Where? Where?'
Once he has left childhood, he will open the
eye of knowledge -- why should he run to and fro on the river
bank looking for water?"
If you have newly become a lover, take the
bitter medicine and drink it, so that Shirin may make you
sweeter than Khusraw's honey.*
Perhaps Shams-I Tabrizi will intoxicate you
from beyond the two worlds and remove you from
yourself!

-- Ghazal (Ode) 742
Translation by William C. Chittick
"The Sufi Path of Love"
SUNY Press, Albany, 1983

* King Khusraw and Shirin are a pair of lovers often
celebrated in Persian verse. Khusraw I or "royal" honey
was a famous kind of exquisite honey. Shirin, whose
name literally means "sweet," of course represents the
Beloved.

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