tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293384182024-03-08T01:06:29.165-08:00SunlightFor those who love the poetry and stories of Jalal al-Din Rumi, the 13th century Sufi Mystic. Daily posts present a variety of translators and translations. Many English speaking people are coming to an appreciation of Rumi's poetry through the translations of Coleman Barks and Camille and Kabir Helminski. Examples of those popular works are offered on Sunlight, along with the lesser known translations of Nader Khalili, Jonathan Star, Annemarie Schimmel, William Chittick and Ibrahim Gamard.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1763125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29338418.post-15765780095136512802013-11-02T10:31:00.000-07:002013-11-02T13:04:57.559-07:00[Sunlight] Announcement of Sunlight list retirement<!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br><br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> Dear Sunlight Subscribers,<div><br></div><div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial,monospace">After sending out posts for 15 years, retirement time has come for Sunlight. Although the daily posts have stopped, the archive of all Sunlight posts will continue to be available to subscribers at the Sunlight website: <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Sunlight/conversations/messages">http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Sunlight/conversations/messages</a>.</font></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial,monospace"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial,monospace">Thank you for your enthusiasm, your comments, and kind words of appreciation. May the coming years provide you with continued appreciation of and gratitude for the wisdom and insight of a most remarkable man.</font></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial,monospace"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial,monospace">It has been an honor to share Rumi with you.</font></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial,monospace"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';">Muni Gilbert</div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial,monospace" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sunlight </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial,monospace">moderator</font></div> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <div width="1" style="color: white; clear: both;"/>__._,_.___</div> <!-- Start Recommendations --> <!-- End Recommendations --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br><br> <tt> Archive for Sunlight can be accessed at:<BR> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight</a> /messages<BR> To subscribe, please send an email to : sunlight-subscribe@yahoogroups.com<BR> To unsubscribe, please send an email to: sunlight-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com<BR> </tt> <br><br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <img src="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97476590/grpId=4512/grpspId=1705077360/msgId=4267/stime=1383422693" width="1" height="1"> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 77%; border-top: 1px solid #666; padding: 5px 0;" > Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional <br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight/join;_ylc=X3oDMTJjb25vMjFvBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzQ1MTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDc3MzYwBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3N0bmdzBHN0aW1lAzEzODM0MjI2OTM-">Change settings via the Web</a> (Yahoo! 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Know that the lover's religion is<br> contrary to other ways, for false dealings from the Friend<br> are better than sincerity and kindliness.<br> What is unthinkable for Him is the actual state, His<br> chastisement the reward, all of His tyranny justice, His<br> slander equity.<br> His harshness is soft, His synagogue the Kaaba �<br> the thorn driven home by the Heart-ravisher is sweeter than<br> roses and basil.<br> When He is sour, He is more excellent than a house <br> of sugar; when He comes to you in annoyance, He is all <br> affection and kisses.<br> When He says to you, "By God, I am sick of you!",<br> that is Khidr's elixir from the Fountain of Life.<br> When He says "No!" a thousand yea's are hidden<br> within it; in this religion of the selfless, He becomes family<br> and self by remaining a stranger.<br> His unbelief is faith, His stones all coral, His miser-<br> liness generosity, His offenses all forgiveness.<br> If you taunt me and say, "Your religion is bent out<br> of shape!" � well, I have bought the religion of His bent<br> eyebrow for the price of my spirit.<br> This bent religion has made me drunk! Enough!<br> I will shut my lips � you continue, oh illuminated heart, and<br> recite the rest silently!<br> Oh Lord! Oh Shams of God Tabrizi! What sugar<br> you pour down! You voice a hundred arguments and<br> proofs from my mouth!<br> <br> -- Translation by William C. Chittick<br> "The Sufi Path of Love - The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi"<br> State University of New York Press, Albany, 1983<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> <br> A Sacred Blasphemy<br> <br> Be off and know<br> That the way of lovers is opposite all other ways.<br> Lies from the Friend<br> Are better than truth and kindness from others.<br> <br> For Him<br> The impossible is commonplace,<br> Punishment is reward,<br> Tyranny is justice,<br> Slander is the highest praise.<br> <br> His harshness is soft,<br> His blasphemy is sacred.<br> The blood that drips from the Beloved's thorn<br> is sweeter than roses and basil.<br> <br> When He's bitter<br> it's better than a candy-shop.<br> When He turns his head away<br> it's all hugs and kisses.<br> When He says, "By God, I've had enough of you!"<br> it's like an eternal spring<br> flowing from the fountain of life.<br> <br> A "No" from his lips is a thousand times "Yes."<br> On this selfless path<br> He acts like a stranger<br> yet He's your dearest friend.<br> <br> His infidelity is faith,<br> His stones are jewels,<br> His holding back is giving,<br> His ruthlessness is mercy.<br> <br> You may laugh at me and say,<br> "The path you're on is full of curves!"<br> Yes � for the curve of His eyebrow<br> I have traded in my soul!<br> <br> This curvy path has gotten me drunk,<br> I cannot say another word!<br> Carry on, my glorious heart,<br> finish the poem in silence . . .<br> <br> O Shams, Lord of Tabriz,<br> What sweetness you pour upon me � <br> All I need to is open my mouth<br> and all your songs flow out.<br> <br> -- Translation by Jonathan Star <br> "Rumi - In the Arms of the Beloved"<br> Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York 1997<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> <br> Go, know that the code of lovers is opposite to all other ways,<br> for from the Beloved lies are better than truth and beneficence.<br> His impossibility comes to pass, his insalubriousness is a <br> bonus, his injustice is all rectitude. Calumny from him is justice.<br> His hard is soft, his synagogue is the Kaaba, the Beloved's<br> thorn is better than roses and basil.<br> The moment when he is bitter is better than a sweetshop, and<br> the moment when he becomes weary, that is kissing and em-<br> bracing.<br> The moment when he says to you, "By Allah, I am indifferent to you" --<br> that is the water of Khidr from the fountain of life.*<br> The when he says "No," in his "No" are a thousand "Yeses"; his<br> strangerhood is kinship according to the code of the unselfed.<br> His infidelity becomes all faith, his stone all coral, his miser-<br> liness all benificence, his crime all forgiveness.<br> If you criticize, you say, "You have a crooked way of going<br> on"; I have bought the way of his brow and given my life.<br> I am drunk with this crooked way; I have made enough, and <br> closed my lips -- rise up, bright heart, and recite the rest of it.<br> Shams-al-Haqq Tabrizi! Dear Lord, what sugar you sprinkle!<br> You might say that out of my mouth proceed a hundred proofs<br> and demonstrations.<br> <br> -- Translation by A.J. Arberry<br> "Mystical Poems of Rumi 2"<br> University of Chicago Press, 1979, 1991<br> <br> *The Water of Life (Ab-e hayvan, or hayatI) is the Fountain of Life in the<br> Land of Darkness. Nizami, in his "Sikander-nama" describes how Alexander was<br> guided by the prophet Khidr to the Fountain but could not reach it. <br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> <br> ~<br> <br></div> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <div width="1" style="color: white; clear: both;"/>__._,_.___</div> <!-- Start Recommendations --> <!-- End Recommendations --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br><br> <tt> Archive for Sunlight can be accessed at:<BR> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight</a> /messages<BR> To subscribe, please send an email to : sunlight-subscribe@yahoogroups.com<BR> To unsubscribe, please send an email to: sunlight-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com<BR> </tt> <br><br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <img src="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97476590/grpId=4512/grpspId=1705077360/msgId=4265/stime=1383146613" width="1" height="1"> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 77%; border-top: 1px solid #666; padding: 5px 0;" > Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional <br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight/join;_ylc=X3oDMTJjNTZxYzduBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzQ1MTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDc3MzYwBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3N0bmdzBHN0aW1lAzEzODMxNDY2MTM-">Change settings via the Web</a> (Yahoo! 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His tears</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;">come easily like a quick rain.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;min-height:14px;"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;">He turns his face up, wet and shining.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;"><i>How can I say what you are with your light?</i></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;min-height:14px;"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;">Let this be a night like that one.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;">Each second the moon tells us, <i>Be more passionate.</i></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;">We should shine back and tell it the same thing.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;min-height:14px;"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;">It makes us restless. It grieves for us.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;">Take it inside you, that One whose Presence</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;">is water. We are the stream, searching along.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;">That One is musk. We are the way musk smells.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;">Why not spray ourselves?</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;min-height:14px;"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;"> - - Ghazal (Ode) 2544</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;"> Version by Coleman Barks</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;"> These Branching Moments</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;"> Copper Beech Press, 1988</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;min-height:14px;"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Geneva;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;min-height:14px;"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Geneva;">~</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;min-height:14px;"><br></div></div> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <div width="1" style="color: white; clear: both;"/>__._,_.___</div> <!-- Start Recommendations --> <!-- End Recommendations --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br><br> <tt> Archive for Sunlight can be accessed at:<BR> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight</a> /messages<BR> To subscribe, please send an email to : sunlight-subscribe@yahoogroups.com<BR> To unsubscribe, please send an email to: sunlight-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com<BR> </tt> <br><br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <img src="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97476590/grpId=4512/grpspId=1705077360/msgId=4262/stime=1382967313" width="1" height="1"> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 77%; border-top: 1px solid #666; padding: 5px 0;" > Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional <br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight/join;_ylc=X3oDMTJjYm9obzJxBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzQ1MTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDc3MzYwBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3N0bmdzBHN0aW1lAzEzODI5NjczMTM-">Change settings via the Web</a> (Yahoo! 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<br>O, how often have knowledge and wit
<br>become as deadly to the wayfarer as any demon or bandit!
<br>Most of those destined for Paradise are simple-minded,
<br>so that they escape from the mischief of philosophy.
<br>Strip yourself of useless learning and vanity,
<br>so that every moment Divine mercy may descend upon you.
<br>Cleverness is the opposite of humbleness and supplication:
<br>give up cleverness and take simplicity as your companion.
<br>Know that cleverness is a trap for victory and ambition:
<br>why should the pure devotee wish to be clever?
<br>The clever are content with an ingenious device;
<br>the simple have left all artifice
<br>to be at rest with the Artificer,
<br>because at breakfast time a mother will have gathered
<br>the little child's hands and feet in repose upon her breast.
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<br>Ay basâ `elm o zakâvât o fetan
<br>gashteh rah-raw-râ ghul o râh-zan
<br>Bish-tar as.hâb-e Jannat ablahand
<br>tâ ze sharr-e faylasufi mi rahand
<br>Khvish-râ `oryân kon az fazl o fozul
<br>tâ konad rahmat beh-to har dam nozul
<br>Ziraki zedd-e shekast ast o niyâz
<br>zireki bo-g'zâr o bâ guli be-sâz
<br>Ziraki dân dâm-e bard o tama` o gâz
<br>tâ cheh khvâhad zireki-râ pâk bâz
<br>Zirakân bâ san`ati qâne` shodeh
<br>ablahân az son` dar Sâne` shodeh
<br>Zânkeh tefl-e khord-râ mâdar nahâr
<br>dast o pâ bâshad nehâdeh bar kenâr
<br>
<br> -- Mathnawi VI:2369-2375
<br> Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
<br> "Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
<br> Threshold Books, 1996
<br> (Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)
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Jealousy has hidden me in a chador.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> On the day when I throw the chador* of the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">body off the spirit, you will see that I am the envy of the </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">moon and the stars.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> Wash your face and purify yourself so that you</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">may see me! Otherwise stay far away, for I am my own</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">witness!</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> I am not that witness who will become an old</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">crone tomorrow -- I will be young, heart-refreshing, and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">beautifully statured until Eternity-without-end.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> Even if that chador should wear out, the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">witness will not become old; the chador's life will come to an </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">end, but we are endless life.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> When Iblis* saw Adam's chador, he rejected him.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">Adam called to him, "You are rejected, not I."</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> The rest of the angels prostrated themselves and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">said, "We have found a witness!</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> Under the chador is an idol whose attributes</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">have confounded our intellects, so we have prostrated</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">ourselves!</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> If our intellects cannot discern the shapes of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">stinking hags from those of witnesses, then we are apostates in </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">Love.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> What place is this for 'Witnesses'? He is God's</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">lion -- we spoke like children, for we are speaking to children</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">just learning the alphabet.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> Children are decieved by walnuts and raisins --</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">otherwise, what have we to do with almonds and sesame </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">seeds?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> If an old crone should hide herself in helmet</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">and armor and say, 'I am Rustam* in God's battlelines,'</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> Everyone will know from her movements that</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">she is a woman. How should we make mistakes? We are </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">bathed in Muhammad's light!"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> The Prophet said, "The believer is discerning" --</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">now be silent! For without speech, I am rightly guided.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> Listen to the rest from Shams, the pride of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">Tabriz, for we have related but part of the story from that</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">king.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> -- Ghazal 1705, from Rumi's "Diwan-e Shams"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> Translation by Professor William C. Chittick</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> "The Sufi Path of Love"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> SUNY Press, Albany, 1983 </div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 16px; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">Sunlight footnotes by Peter Bridge:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">*chador -- the Persian variant of the traditional outer garment ("cover") </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">worn by Islamic women </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">*Iblis -- Another name for Satan</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">*Rustam -- Legendary Persian warrior king, whose story is set forth in </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">Ferdowsi's tenth century epic "Book of Kings" ("Shahnameh")</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 16px; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">~</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 16px; "><br></div> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <div width="1" style="color: white; clear: both;"/>__._,_.___</div> <!-- Start Recommendations --> <!-- End Recommendations --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br><br> <tt> Archive for Sunlight can be accessed at:<BR> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight</a> /messages<BR> To subscribe, please send an email to : sunlight-subscribe@yahoogroups.com<BR> To unsubscribe, please send an email to: sunlight-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com<BR> </tt> <br><br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <img src="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97476590/grpId=4512/grpspId=1705077360/msgId=4260/stime=1382621613" width="1" height="1"> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 77%; border-top: 1px solid #666; padding: 5px 0;" > Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional <br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight/join;_ylc=X3oDMTJjNzhyY2FpBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzQ1MTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDc3MzYwBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3N0bmdzBHN0aW1lAzEzODI2MjE2MTM-">Change settings via the Web</a> (Yahoo! 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font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">as superior to that of Jonah:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">mine was up to heaven; his was below into the belly of the fish,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">but nearness to God is beyond calculation."</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">Nearness to God is neither up nor down:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">to be near God is to escape the prison of existence.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">What room has nonexistence for "up" or "down"?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">Nonexistence has no "soon" or "far" or "late."</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">The laboratory and treasure house of God is in nonexistence.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">Since existence deludes you,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">how will you know what nonexistence is?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; ">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">Goft Payghambar keh "Me`râj-e merâ</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">nist bar me`râj-e Yunos ejtebâ</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">Ân-e man bar charkh va ân-e u neshib</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">zânke qorb-e Haqq berunast az hesâb"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">Qorb nah bâlâ nah pasti raftanast</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">qorb-e Haqq az habs-e hasti rastanast</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">Nist-râ cheh jâ-ye bâlâ ast o zir</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">nist-râ nah zud o nah durast o dir</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">Kâr-gâh o ganj-e Haqq dar nistist</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; ">gherreh-ye hasti cheh dâni nist chist</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> -- Mathnawi III: 4512-4516</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> "Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> Threshold Books, 1996</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Geneva; "> Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra</div><div style="margin: 0px; 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<br>
<br> Today, Sunlight offers two presentations of the verses from the
<br>Mathnawi, Volume VI, lines 216 - 227 -- the first an interpretive
<br>version by Coleman Barks, which Barks developed relying on Professor
<br>Reynold Nicholson's translation; the second, Nicholson's classic,
<br>literal translation:
<br>
<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<br>
<br>
<br>I am part of the load
<br>not rightly balanced.
<br>I drop off in the grass,
<br>like the old Cave-sleepers, to browse
<br>wherever I fall.
<br>
<br>For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains
<br>floating and flying in the will of the air,
<br>often forgetting ever being
<br>in that state, but in sleep
<br>I migrate back. I spring loose
<br>from the four-branched, time-and-space cross,
<br>this waiting room.
<br>
<br>I walk into a huge pasture.
<br>I nurse the milk of millennia.
<br>
<br>Everyone does this in different ways.
<br>Knowing that conscious decisions
<br>and personal memory
<br>are much too small a place to live,
<br>every human being streams at night
<br>into the loving nowhere, or during the day,
<br>in some absorbing work.
<br>
<br> -- Version by Coleman Barks,
<br> "We Are Three"
<br> Maypop, 1987
<br>
<br>
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<br>
<br> Let the ill-balanced load drop from me, that I may behold the
<br>meadow of the pious.
<br> (Then), like the Fellows of the Cave, I shall browse on the
<br>orchard of Bounty ˆ not awake, nay, they are asleep.*
<br> I shall recline on the right or on the left, I shall not roll save
<br>involuntarily, like a ball,
<br> Just as Thou, O Lord of the Judgement, turnest me over
<br>either to the right or to the left.
<br> Hundreds of thousands of years I was flying (to and fro)
<br>involuntarily, like the motes in the air.
<br> If I have forgotten that time and state, (yet) the migration in
<br>sleep (to the spiritual world) recalls it to my memory.
<br> (Every night) I escape from this four-branched cross and
<br>spring away from this (confined) halting-place into the (spacious)
<br>pasture of the spirit.
<br> For the nurse, Sleep, I suck the milk of those bygone days
<br>of mine, O Lord.
<br> All the (people in the) world are fleeing from their free-will
<br>and (self-) existence to their drunken (unconscious) side.
<br> In order that for awhile they may be delivered from sobriety
<br>(consciousness), they lay upon themselves the opprobrium of
<br>wine and minstrelsy.
<br> All know that this existence is a snare, that volitional thought
<br>and memory are a hell.
<br> They are fleeing from selfhood into selflessness either by
<br>means of intoxication or by means of (some engrossing) occupa-
<br>tion, O well-conducted man.
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<br> -- Translation by Reynold A. Nicholson
<br> "The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi"
<br> Gibb Memorial Trust
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<br>* Qua'an, XVIII, 17, slightly altered.
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<br>The mouse-soul is nothing but a nibbler.
<br>To the mouse is given a mind proportionate to its need,
<br>for without need, the Almighty God
<br>doesn't give anything to anyone.
<br>Need, then, is the net for all things that exist:
<br>man has tools in proportion to his need.
<br>So, quickly, increase your need, needy one,
<br>that the sea of abundance may surge up in lovingkindness.
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<br>Nafs-e mushi nist ellâ loqmeh-rand
<br>qadr-e hâjat mush-râ `aqli dehand
<br>Zanke bi hâjat Khodâvand-e `Aziz
<br>mi na-bakhshad hich kas-râ hich chiz
<br>Pas kamand-e hast-hâjat bud
<br>qadr-e hâjat mard-râ âlat bud
<br>Pas biyafzâ hâjat ay mohtâj zud
<br>tâ be-jushad dar karam daryâ-ye jud
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<br> -- Mathnawi II: 3273-3274; 3279-3280
<br> Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
<br> "Rumi: Daylight"
<br> Threshold Books, 1994
<br> Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra
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<br>If you do not possess the staff of caution and
<br>discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees.
<br>If there is no staff of caution and discrimination,
<br>do not wander on the road without a guide
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<br> -- Mathnawi III:277-278
<br> Translated by Muriel Maufroy
<br> Breathing Truth - Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi
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<br>The light of the senses and spirit of our ancestors
<br>doesn't perish like the grass,
<br>but, like the stars and moonbeams,
<br>they vanish in the radiance of the Sun.
<br>It's like the naked man who jumped into the water,
<br>so that he might escape from the hornets' stings:
<br>the hornets circled above him, and whenever he put out his head
<br>they would not spare him.
<br>The water is recollection of God,
<br>and the hornet is the thought, during this time,
<br>of such-and-such a woman or man.
<br>Hold your breath in the water of remembrance,
<br>so that you may be freed from old thoughts and temptations.
<br>After that, you will assume the nature of that pure water,
<br>entirely from head to foot.
<br>As the noxious hornet flees from the water,
<br>so it will be afraid of approaching you.
<br>After that be far from the water, if you wish;
<br>for in your inmost soul you are of the same nature as the water.
<br>Those persons then who have passed from the world
<br>are not nonexistent but are absorbed in the attributes of God,
<br>even as the star disappears in the presence of the sun.
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<br>Nur-e hess o jân-e bâbâyân-e mâ
<br>nist kolli fâni va lâ chon giyâ
<br>Lik mânand setâreh o mâhtâb
<br>jomleh mahvand az sho`â`-e âftâb
<br>Ân chonânke `ur andar âb jast
<br>tâ dar âb az zakhm-e zanburân be-rast
<br>Mi konad zanbur bar bâlâ tavâf
<br>chon bar ârad sar na-dârandesh mo`âf
<br>Âb zekr-e Haqq va zanbur in zamân
<br>hast yâd-e ân folâneh o ân folân
<br>Dam be-khvor dar âb-e zekr va sabr kon
<br>tâ rahi az fekr o vasvâs-e kohon
<br>Ba`d az ân to tab`-e ân âb-e safâ
<br>khvod be-giri jomlegi sar tâ beh pâ
<br>Ânchonânke az âb ân zanbur-e sharr
<br>mi gorizad az to ham girad hazar
<br>Ba`d az ân khvâhi to dur az âb bâsh
<br>keh be-serr ham tab`-e âbi khvâjeh tâsh
<br>Pas kasâni kaz jahân be-gozashteh-'and
<br>lâ niand va dar sefât âghashteh-'and
<br>Dar sefât-e Haqq sefât-e jomleh-shân
<br>hamcho akhtar pish-e ân khvor bi neshân
<br>
<br> -- Mathnawi IV: 432-433; 435-443
<br> Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
<br> "Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
<br> Threshold Books, 1996
<br> Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra
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He hurried, but he couldn't<br> prevent it. He hit the man several blows with his club.<br> <br> The man woke terrified, and ran beneath an apple tree<br> with many rotten apples on the ground.<br> "Eat!<br> You miserable wretch! Eat!"<br> "Why are you doing this to <br> me?"<br> "Eat more you fool."<br> "I've never seen you <br> before!<br> Who are you? Do you have some inner quarrel with my soul?"<br> <br> The wise man kept forcing him to eat, and then he ran him.<br> For hours he whipped the poor man and made him run.<br> Finally at nightfall, full of rotten apples,<br> fatigued, bleeding, he fell<br> and vomited everything,<br> The good and the bad, the apples and the snake.<br> When he saw that ugly snake<br> come out of himself, he fell on his knees<br> before his assailant.<br> "Are you Gabriel? Are you God?<br> I bless the moment you first noticed me. I was dead<br> and didn't know it. You gave me new life.<br> Everything I've said to you was stupid!<br> I didn't know."<br> "If I had explained what I was <br> doing,<br> you might have panicked and died of fear.<br> Muhammad said,<br> 'If I described the enemy that <br> lives<br> inside men, even the most courageous would be paralysed. No one<br> would go out, or do any work. No one would pray or fast,<br> and all power to change would fade<br> from human beings,'<br> so I kept quiet<br> while I was beating you, that like David<br> I might shape iron, so that, impossibly,<br> I might put feathers back into a bird's wing.<br> <br> God's silence is necessary, because of humankind's<br> faintheartedness. If I had told you about the snake,<br> you wouldn't have been able to eat, and if<br> you hadn't eaten, you wouldn't have vomited.<br> <br> I saw your condition and drove my donkey hard<br> into the middle of it, saying always, under my breath,<br> 'Lord, make it easy on him' I wasn't permitted<br> to tell you, and I wasn't permitted to stop<br> beating you!"<br> The healed man, still kneeling,<br> "I have no way to thank you for the quickness<br> of your wisdom and the strength of your guidance.<br> God will thank you."<br> <br> -- Mathnawi II, Verses 1858-1929 (Excerpts)<br> Version by Coleman Barks, based on the translation<br> by Nicholson<br> "The Essential Rumi"<br> HarperSanFrancisco, 1995<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> <br> The Rider and the Man Who Swallowed a Snake<br> <br> Mathnawi II: 1878-1915, 1923-1926, 1930<br> <br> A wise man was coming, riding on (his) horse, (while) a snake<br> was going into the mouth of a sleeping man.*<br> The rider saw that, and acted quickly so that he might scare away<br> the snake, (but) he found no opportunity.<br> Since he had the aid of great intelligence, he hit the sleeper<br> several times with a strong iron-covered club.<br> (The man) took the blows of that hard mace, and fled from him<br> until (he arrived) beneath a tree.<br> Many rotten apples had fallen (there), and (the rider) commanded:<br> "Eat these, O you (who) are dangling (helplessly) in pain!"<br> He gave so many apples for him to eat* that they were falling back<br> out of his mouth.<br> He was yelling, "O prince, why have you made (killing) me your<br> intention, (when) you haven't seen (any) injustice (from me)?*<br> "If you have an authentic quarrel against my life, (then) strike<br> (your) sword immediately (and) spill my blood!<br> "(What) an unlucky hour when I became visible to you! Oh happy<br> (is) the one who never saw your face!<br> "Without (any) crime or sin, without (doing) more or less-- (even)<br> heretics don't consider this (kind of) ill-treatment (to be)<br> permissible.<br> "Blood is leaping from my mouth (along) with (my) words. O<br> God, retaliate against him in the end!"<br> He was shouting new curses every moment, (while the rider) kept<br> beating him, (and) saying, "Run into the desert plain!"<br> Blows of the mace (continued), and a rider (in pursuit) like the<br> wind! (The man) was running, and again (and again), he fell on (his)<br> face.<br> He was full-fed, filled with drowsiness, and weak; his feet and<br> face were (covered with) a hundred thousand wounds.<br> (The rider) kept leading and releasing (him) up to night time, <br> until vomiting overcame him, caused by (excess) bile.<br> Everything consumed, bad or good, came up from him: the snake,<br> together with (everything else) that (was) eaten leaped out of him.<br> When he saw the snake outside of him, he fell on his face before<br> that benevolent (man).<br> (And) when he saw the terror of that big black ugly snake, those<br> sufferings left him.<br> He said, "You are (the angel) Gabriel, himself, or (else) you are<br> God, since you are the protecting friend of merciful kindness!<br> "Oh (what) a blessed hour (it was) when you saw me; I was dead<br> (and) you gave me a new life.<br> "You were seeking me like mothers [searching for their children]<br> (but) I was running away from you like donkeys.<br> "The donkey flees from (its) master because of (its) donkey-<br> nature, (while) its owner (follows) in (its) tracks because of<br> (his) good-nature;<br> "He seeks it, not because of profit or loss, but so that a wolf or<br> (other) wild animal may not tear it (to pieces).<br> "Oh (how) blessed (is) the one who sees your face, or (who)<br> suddenly comes upon your lane!<br> "O you, whom the pure spirit* has praised! (How) many babbling<br> and foolish (things) I said to you!<br> "O lord and emperor and prince! I didn't speak, (but) my<br> ignorance said (those words). Don't hold it (against me)!<br> "If I had known the least bit about this situation, I never would<br> have been capable of (such) foolish talk.<br> "I would have said many (things in) praise (of you instead), O you<br> of excellent qualities, if you had said one hint to me about the<br> situation.<br> "But you, acting in silence, were (so) disturbed, (and) were<br> quietly pounding my head!<br> "My mind became crazy (and) reason leaped out of my skull,<br> especially (since) this head has very little brain.<br> "Pardon (me), O you of fine appearance and manners! What<br> (ever) I said because of frenzy, let (it) pass!"<br> (The rider) answered, "If I had said (even) a hint about it, (all<br> of) your gall* would have turned (into) water that instant.<br> "If I had told you (about) the snake's qualities, the (resulting)<br> fear would have lifted the breath of life (right) out of your soul!"<br> Muhammad said:* "If I speak truly (about) the description of the<br> enemy which is within your souls,<br> "Even the gallbladders of brave men would burst; they* would not<br> travel on the roads, nor would they be concerned about any work.<br> "Nor would endurance remain in their hearts for supplications (to<br> God), nor would strength (remain) for fasting and ritual prayer.<br> "They would become as nothing, like a mouse before a cat, and<br> (deeply) troubled, like a lamb before a wolf.<br> "(And) no strategy or movement would remain to them.<br> Therefore, I am supporting you without speaking."<br> <br> . . . . . . . . . . . .<br> <br> (The rider said,) "You would not have had the strength for eating<br> (the apples), nor (would you have had) a way or care to vomit.<br> "I kept hearing (your) curses, but I kept 'driving the donkey<br> (forward).'* (And) I kept reciting in a whisper, 'O Lord, make (it)<br> easy!'<br> "I had no permission to speak about the cause (and yet) I had no<br> ability to talk about leaving you.<br> I kept reciting, every moment from (my) inward sorrow, '(O<br> God,) guide my people, for truly they do not know!'"*<br> . . . . . . . . . . . .<br> <br> This is the form of the "hostility" of the wise ones; their poison<br> is a joy for souls!*<br> <br> -- Translation from the Persian by Ibrahim Gamard<br> (with gratitude to R.A. Nicholson's for his 1926<br> British translation)<br> From "The Mathnaw�-y� Ma`naw�" (Rhymed<br> Couplets of Deep Spiritual Meaning) of <br> Jalaluddin Rumi.<br> Footnotes courtesy of Ibrahim Gamard.<br> (C) Ibrahim Gamard<br> <br> *sleeping man: "The Am�r [= Prince] in this Story represents a<br> murshid [= sufi guide], while the man who swallowed the snake is a<br> sensualist. The nafs [=ego] is frequently symbolised by a snake."<br> (Nicholson, Commentary)<br> *to eat: Nicholson later changed this, because of a misprint in his<br> Persian text, to: "He gave him so many apples to eat" (from: "He<br> gave the man...").<br> *you haven't seen (any) injustice (from me): Nicholson later<br> changed this, based on the earliest manuscript of the Mathnawi to:<br> "when you have not suffered injury" (from: "What have I done to<br> you?").<br> *the pure spirit: "probably refers to the angels, who paid homage to<br> the Perfect Man (Adam)." (Nicholson, Commentary)<br> *gall: means courage, based on ancient beliefs that courage was<br> linked to the "fiery" quality of bile from the gallbladder. This usage<br> exists in English, in the sense of rude fearlessness: "He had a lot of<br> gall to do a thing like that."<br> *Muhammad said: "Cf. the Had�th: a'd� 'aduwika nafsuka 'llat�<br> bayna janbayka, 'thy worst enemy is thy nafs [= ego] which is<br> between thy sides.'" (Nicholson, Commentary)<br> *they: literally, "he" in the following couplets.<br> *driving the donkey: Nicholson translated this as an idiom: "I heard<br> (your) abuse and went on with my work"-- "Literally, 'I was driving<br> my ass along.'" (Nicholson, footnote)<br> *they do not know: "The story goes that in the battle of Uhud a stone<br> hurled by one of the Quraysh broke the Prophet's teeth; but instead of<br> cursing his enemies he cried, 'O God, guide my people, for verily<br> they know not." (Nicholson, Commentary)<br> *a joy for souls: "i.e. the remedies they apply are drastic and bitter<br> as poison, but the result is spiritual happiness." (Nicholson,<br> Commentary)<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> <br> `�qil� bar asp m�-�m-ad sow�r<br> dar dah�n-� khofta-y� m�-raft m�r<br> <br> �n sow�r �n-r� be-d�d-o m�-shet�ft<br> t� ram�n-ad m�r-r�, furSat na-y�ft<br> <br> ch�n-ke az `aql-ash far�w�n bod madad<br> chand dab�s� qaw� bar khofta zad<br> <br> bord �-r� az zakhm-� �n dabb�s-� sakht<br> z-� gor�z�n t� ba z�r-� yak derakht<br> <br> s�b-� p�s�da bas� bod r�khta<br> goft az-�n khwar, ay ba-dard �w�khta<br> <br> s�b chand�n mar �-r� dar khward d�d<br> k-az dah�n-ash b�z b�r�n m�-fot�d<br> <br> gar to-r� z-aSl-ast b� j�n-am set�z<br> t�gh zan yak-barag� kh�n-am be-r�z<br> <br> sh�m s�`at ke shod-am bar t� pad�d<br> ay khonok �n-r� ke r�y-� t� na-d�d<br> <br> b�-jin�yat, b�-gonah, b�-b�sh-o kam<br> mulHid-�n j�yiz na-d�r-and �n setam<br> <br> m�-jah-ad kh�n az dah�n-am b� sokhon<br> ay khod� �khir muk�f�t-ash t� kon<br> <br> har zam�n m�-goft � nafr�n-� naw<br> �-sh m�-zad k-andar-�n SaHr� be-daw<br> <br> zakhm-� dabb�s-o sow�r-� hamch� b�d<br> m�-daw�d-o b�z dar r� m�-fot�d<br> <br> mumtal�-wo khw�b-n�k-o sost bod<br> p�-wo r�y-ash Sad haz�r-�n zakhm shod<br> <br> t� shab�n-gah m�-kash�d-o m�-gosh�d<br> t� ze-Safr� qay shodan bar way fot�d<br> <br> z-� bar �mad khwarda-h� zesht-o nek�<br> m�r b� �n khwarda b�r�n jast az-�<br> <br> ch�n be-d�d az khwad ber�n �n m�r-r�<br> sajda �ward �n nek�-kard�r-r�<br> <br> sahm-� �n m�r-� sey�h-� zesht-� zaft<br> ch�n be-d�d, �n dard-h� az way be-raft<br> <br> goft khwad t� jibra'�l-� raHmat-�<br> y� khod�y-� ke waliyy-� ni`mat-�<br> <br> ay mub�rak s�`at� ke d�d�-am<br> morda b�d-am, j�n-� naw bakhsh�d�-am<br> <br> t� ma-r� j�y-�n miS�l-� m�dar-�n<br> man gor�z�n az t� m�nand-� khar-�n<br> <br> khar gor�z-ad az khod�wand az khar�<br> S�Hib-ash dar pay ze-n�k�-gawhar�<br> <br> na az pay-� s�d-o zey�n m�-j�y-ad-ash<br> l�k t� gorg-ash na-darr-ad y� dad-ash<br> <br> ay khonok �n-r� ke b�n-ad r�y-� t�<br> y� dar oftad n�-gah�n dar k�y-� t�<br> <br> ay raw�n-� p�k be-set�da to-r�<br> chand goft-am zh�zh-o b�h�da to-r�<br> <br> ay khod�wand-o shahensh�h-o am�r<br> man na-goft-am, jahl-� man goft, �n ma-g�r<br> <br> shamma'y� z-�n H�l agar d�n-ast-am-y<br> goftan-� b�h�da kay taw�nast-am-y?<br> <br> bas San�yat goftam-y ay khwash-khiS�l<br> gar ma-r� yak ramz m�-goft-� ze-H�l<br> <br> l�k kh�mosh-karda m�-�sh�ft-�<br> kh�mush-�na bar sar-am m�-k�ft-�<br> <br> shod sar-am k�l�wa, `aql az sar be-jast<br> kh�SSa �n sar-r� ke maghz-ash kam-tar-ast<br> <br> `afw kon ay kh�b-r�y-� kh�b-k�r<br> �n-che goft-am az jun�n andar goZ�r<br> <br> goft agar man goft-am-y ranz� az �n<br> zahra-y� t� �b gasht-y �n zam�n<br> <br> gar t�-r� man goft-am-y awS�f-� m�r<br> tars az j�n-at bar �ward-y dam�r<br> <br> muSTaf� farm�d agar g�y-am ba-r�st<br> sharH-� �n doshman ke dar j�n-� shom�-st<br> <br> zahra-h�y-� por-del-�n ham bar dar-ad<br> nay raw-ad rah, nay gham-� k�r� khwar-ad<br> <br> na del-ash-r� t�b m�n-ad dar ney�z<br> na tan-ash-r� quwwat-� r�za-w' nam�z<br> <br> hamch� m�sh� p�sh-� gorba l� shaw-ad<br> hamch� barra p�sh-� gorg az j� raw-ad<br> <br> andar-� na H�la m�n-ad na rawesh<br> pas kon-am n�-gofta-t�n man parwaresh<br> <br> . . . . . . . <br> <br> mar to-r� na quwwat-� khwardan bod-y<br> na rah-o parw�y-� qay kardan bod-y<br> <br> m�-shen�d-am fuHsh-o khar m�-r�nd-am<br> rabbi yassir z�r-� lab m�-khw�nd-am<br> <br> az sabab goftan ma-r� dast�r nay<br> tark-� t� goftan ma-r� maqd�r nay<br> <br> har zam�n m�-goft-am az dard-� dar�n<br> ihdi qawm� innahum l� ya`lam�n<br> <br> . . . . . . . <br> <br> doshman�y-� `�qil-�n z-�n s�n bow-ad<br> zahr-� �sh�n ibtah�j-� j�n bow-ad<br> <br> -- Persian transliteration courtesy of Ibrahim Gamard<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> <br> ~<br> <br></div> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <div width="1" style="color: white; 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What I know<br> is growing inside me. Rain makes<br> every molecule pregnant with a mystery.<br> We groan with women in labor.<br> The ground cries out, I am Truth and Glory Is Here,<br> breaks open, and a camel is born out of it.<br> A branch falls from a tree, and there�s a snake.<br> <br> Muhammed said: A faithful believer is a good camel,<br> always looking to its Master, who takes perfect care.<br> He brands the flank.<br> He sets out hay.<br> He binds the knees with reasonable rules,<br> and now he loosens all bindings and lets his camel dance,<br> tearing the bridle and ripping the blankets.<br> <br> The field itself sprouts new forms,<br> while the camel dances over them, imaginary<br> plants no one has thought of, <br> but all these new seeds, no matter how they try,<br> do not reveal the other sun.<br> They hide it.<br> Still, the effort is joy,<br> one by one to keep uncovering<br> pearls in oyster shells.<br> <br> - Version by John Moyne & Coleman Barks<br> These Branching Moments<br> Copper Beech Press, 1988<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> <br> ~<br> <br></div> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <div width="1" style="color: white; clear: both;"/>__._,_.___</div> <!-- Start Recommendations --> <!-- End Recommendations --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br><br> <tt> Archive for Sunlight can be accessed at:<BR> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight</a> /messages<BR> To subscribe, please send an email to : sunlight-subscribe@yahoogroups.com<BR> To unsubscribe, please send an email to: sunlight-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com<BR> </tt> <br><br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <img src="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97476590/grpId=4512/grpspId=1705077360/msgId=4250/stime=1381420438" width="1" height="1"> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 77%; border-top: 1px solid #666; padding: 5px 0;" > Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional <br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight/join;_ylc=X3oDMTJjYjdlOHNyBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzQ1MTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDc3MzYwBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3N0bmdzBHN0aW1lAzEzODE0MjA0Mzg-">Change settings via the Web</a> (Yahoo! 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So long as man has riches, he<br> gathers together all the means of achieving his desires. Night<br> and day he busies himself with them. But as soon as he loses<br> his wealth, his ego weakens and he turns round about God.<br> <br>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â -- Discourses of Rumi (Fihi ma fihi) 233/240<br>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Translation by Prof. William C. 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And that the witch of Kabul,<br> who holds you with her color and her perfume,<br> is the world?<br> Say the words, I take refuge<br> with the Lord of the Daybreak.<br> <br> Avoid the hot breathing that keeps you tied<br> to her. She breathes on knots and no one<br> can unknot them. That's why the prophets came.<br> <br> Look for those whose breath is cool.<br> When they breathe on knots, they loosen.<br> <br> The old woman of the world has had you <br> in her net for sixty years. Her breathing<br> is the breathing of God's anger. But God's mercy<br> has more strength. Mercy is prior to wrath.<br> <br> You must marry your soul.<br> That wedding is the way.<br> Union with the world is sickness.<br> <br> But it's hard to be separated from these forms!<br> You don't have enough patience to give this up?<br> But how do you have enough patience<br> to do without God?<br> <br> You can't quit drinking the earth's dark drink?<br> But how can you not drink from this other fountain?<br> <br> You get restless, you say, when you don't sip<br> the world's fermentation. But if for one second<br> you saw the beauty of the clear water of God,<br> you'd think this other was embalming fluid.<br> <br> Nearness to the Beloved is the splendor<br> of your life. Marry the Beloved.<br> Let the thorn of the ego slide from your foot.<br> <br> What a relief to be empty!<br> Then God can live your life.<br> <br> When you stay tied to mind and desire, you stumble<br> in the mud like a nearsighted donkey.<br> <br> Keep smelling Joseph's shirt.<br> Don't be satisfied with borrowed light.<br> Let your brow and your face illuminate with union.<br> <br> -- Version by Coleman Barks<br> "One-Handed Basket Weaving"<br> Maypop, 1991<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> <br> ~Explaining that the prince is Man*, the vicegerent of God, and <br> that his father is Adam, the chosen one, the vicegerent of God, he to <br> whom the angels bowed in worship; and that the old hag of Kabul is <br> the World, which separated Man from his Father by succor, which the <br> prophets and saints are (like) the physician who applied the remedy.~<br> <br> O brother, know that thou art the prince born anew in the old <br> world.<br> The witch of Kabul is this World which made men captive to colour<br> and perfume.<br> Since she hath cast thee into this polluted stream, continually <br> recite and utter (the words), Say, I take refuge.<br> In order that thou mayst be delivered from this witchery and<br> this distress, beg of the Lord of the daybreak that thou mayst say "I <br> take refuge."<br> The Prophet called this world of thine an enchantress because <br> through her spells she lodged mankind in the pit.<br> Beware! The stinking hag hath hot (potent) spells: her hot <br> breath hath made kings captive.<br> She is the witches who blow (on knots) within (thy) breast: she <br> is the (means of) maintaining the knots of sorcery.<br> The sorceress, (who is) the World, is a mightily cunning<br> woman: `tis not in the power of the vulgar to undo her sorcery;<br> And if (men's) understandings could loose her knot, how<br> should God have sent the prophets?<br> Hark, seek one whose breath is pure, a looser of knots, one who <br> knows the mystery of God doeth whatso He willeth.<br> She (the World) hath imprisoned thee, like a fish, in her net:<br> the prince remained (there) one year, and thou sixty.<br> From (being enmeshed in) her net thou art in tribulation <br> sixty years: neither art thou happy nor (dost thou walk) in the way<br> of the Sunna.<br> Thou art a miserable unrighteous man: neither is thy worldly<br> life good (happy) nor art thou delivered from guilt and sins.<br> Her (the World's) breathing hath made these knots tight:<br> seek, then, the breathing of the unique Creator,<br> In order that "I breathed of My spirit into him" may deliver <br> thee from this (sorcery) and say (to thee), "Come higher!"<br> The breathing of sorcery is not consumed save by the breathing<br> of God: this (the former) is the breathing of (Divine) wrath, (while)<br> that (the latter) exhalation is the breathing of (Divine) love.<br> His mercy is prior to His wrath: (if) thou desirest priority (in<br> spiritual rank), go, seek that (attribute) which is prior.<br> That thou mayst attain unto the souls that are wedded; for lo,<br> this, O ensorcelled prince, is thy way of escape.<br> With the existence of the old woman*, there can be no undoing <br> (of the knots), (whilst thou art) in the net and in the arms of that <br> (paramour) full of blandishments.<br> Hath not the Lamp of the peoples* called this world and that<br> world the two fellow-wives (who are always quarrelling with each <br> other)?<br> Therefore union with this (world) is separation from that<br> (world): the health of this body is the sickness of the spirit.<br> Hard is the separation from this transitory abode: know, then<br> that the separation from that permanent abode is harder.<br> Since it is hard for thee to be separated from the form, how<br> hard must it be to be parted from its Maker!<br> O thou that hast not the patience to do without the vile world,<br> how, O friend, how hast thou the patience to do without God?<br> Since thou has not the patience to do without this black<br> water, how hast thou the patience to do without God's (pure)<br> fountain?<br> Since thou art restless without this (worldly) drink, how art<br> thou (remaining patiently) apart from the righteous and from<br> they shall drink (of the wine of Paradise)?<br> If for one moment thou behold the beauty of the Loving One<br> and cast thy soul and existence into the fire (of love),<br> After that thou wilt regard this (worldly) drink as a carcase,<br> when thou beholdest the glory and splendour of nighness (unto Him).<br> Like the prince, thou wilt attain unto thy Beloved: then thou<br> wilt draw out from thy foot the thorn of self.<br> Strive for selflessness, find thy (true) self as soon as <br> possible � and God best knoweth the right course.<br> Take heed, never be wedded to self: do not, like an ass, be<br> always falling into water and mud.<br> That stumbling arises from shortsightedness; for like a blind<br> man, he (such a one) does not see the ups and downs.<br> Make the scent of Joseph's shirt thy stay, because his scent<br> makes the eye clear.<br> The hidden Form and the Light of that Brow have made the<br> eyes of the prophets far-seeing.<br> The Light of that Countenance will deliver (thee) from the<br> fire; hark, be not content with borrowed light.<br> <br> -- Translation and Commentary by Reynold A. Nicholson<br> "The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi"<br> Published and Distributed by<br> The Trustees of The "E.J.W. Gibb Memorial"<br> <br> *Literally "the child of Adam"<br> *I.e. "So long as the World exists for thee."<br> *I.e. the Prophet<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> <br> ~<br> <br></div> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <div width="1" style="color: white; clear: both;"/>__._,_.___</div> <!-- Start Recommendations --> <!-- End Recommendations --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br><br> <tt> Archive for Sunlight can be accessed at:<BR> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight</a> /messages<BR> To subscribe, please send an email to : sunlight-subscribe@yahoogroups.com<BR> To unsubscribe, please send an email to: sunlight-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com<BR> </tt> <br><br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <img src="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97476590/grpId=4512/grpspId=1705077360/msgId=4247/stime=1381162392" width="1" height="1"> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 77%; border-top: 1px solid #666; padding: 5px 0;" > Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional <br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sunlight/join;_ylc=X3oDMTJjMmk4YTFlBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzQ1MTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDc3MzYwBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3N0bmdzBHN0aW1lAzEzODExNjIzOTI-">Change settings via the Web</a> (Yahoo! 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<br>A shaykh would go about, with a basket in hand, saying,
<br>"Give something for God's sake, if He prompts you to be generous."
<br>His inner experiences were higher than the Footstool*
<br>and the Throne** of God;
<br>his outer business was to cry,
<br>"Something for God's sake, something for God's sake!"
<br>The prophets, every one, ply this same trade:
<br>the people to whom they are sent are really destitute,
<br>yet the prophets practice begging,
<br>"Lend to God, lend to God"*** persevering in the absurdity, "Help God!"
<br>The shaykh goes from door to door,
<br>while spiritually a hundred doors are open to him,
<br>because his begging is for God's sake,
<br>not for the sake of satisfying his own need.
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<br>Shaykh bar mi gasht va zanbili be-dast
<br>"Shay' lillâh khvâjeh tawfiqiyet hast"
<br>Bartar az Korsi* o `Arsh** asrâr-e u
<br>"Shay' lillâh, shay' lillâh" kâr-e u
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<br>Anbiyâ har yek hamin fann mi zanand
<br>khalq mofles gedyeh ishân mi konand
<br>"Aqridu Allâh, Aqridu Allâh"*** mi zanand
<br>bâz-gun bar "unsuru Allâh" mi tanand
<br>Dar pah dar in shaykh mi ârad niyâz
<br>bar falak sad dar barâ-ye shaykh bâz
<br>K-ân gadâ'i kân beh-jedd mi kard u
<br>bahr-e Yazdân bud nah az bahr-e golu
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<br> -- Mathnawi V: 2698-2703
<br> Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
<br> "Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
<br> Threshold Books, 1996
<br> (Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)
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<br>*al-Kursi: the realm of the command to good and the prohibition of evil.
<br>**al-`Arsh: the realm of the Divine Names.
<br>***Qur'ân, al-Hadid, 11
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<br> Today, Sunlight offers two interpretations of Quatrain 1521:
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<br>It's good to leave each day behind,
<br>like flowing water, free of sadness.
<br>Yesterday is gone and its tale told.
<br>Today new seeds are growing.
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<br> -- Translation by Azima Melita Kolin
<br> and Maryam Mafi
<br> Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved
<br> HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999
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<br>happiness is to reach
<br>the next post every day
<br>like flowing water
<br>free from stillness
<br>and melancholy
<br>yesterday is gone and
<br>took away its talk
<br>today we must live
<br>a fresh story again
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<br> --Translation by Nader Khalili
<br> Rumi, Dancing the Flame
<br> Cal-Earth Press, 2001
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Arberry:<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> <br> ONLY THROUGH THIS<br> <br> Abandon this world<br> That you may become King of all worlds.<br> Throw away your handful of sugar<br> That you may become a sugar field.<br> <br> Leap like a flame through the sky.<br> Scatter the dark spirits<br> and become the pillar of heaven.<br> <br> When Noah sails upon the flooding waters<br> you will be his ark.<br> When the Prophet ascends to heaven<br> you will be his ladder.<br> When Jesus walks among the weary souls<br> you will be his healing breath.<br> When Moses goes forth as a shepherd<br> you will be his staff.<br> <br> A divine fire blazes within you.<br> Don't jump back like a coward.<br> Cook in the fire!<br> Bake like bread!<br> Soon you'll be the prize of every table,<br> the life-giving food of every soul.<br> <br> Walk patiently through this troubled world<br> and you'll find a great treasure.<br> Even though your house is small, look within it;<br> you will find the secrets<br> of the unseen world.<br> <br> I asked, "Why have I received only this?"<br> A voice replied,<br> "Only this will lead you to That!"<br> <br> No more words from my mouth.<br> I didn't come here to wag my chin,<br> I came here to chew on sugar-cane.<br> <br> -- Version by Jonathan Star<br> "Rumi - In the Arms of the Beloved "<br> Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York 1997<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> <br> Forget the world, and so command the world.<br> <br> Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.<br> Help someone's soul heal.<br> Walk out of your house like a shepherd.<br> <br> Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.<br> Be a well-baked loaf and lord of the table.<br> Come and be served to your brothers.<br> <br> You have been a source of pain.<br> Now you'll be the delight.<br> <br> You have been an unsafe house. Now you'll<br> be the One who sees into the Invisible.<br> <br> I said this, and a Voice came to my ear,<br> "If you become this, you will be That! " <br> <br> Then Silence,<br> and now more Silence.<br> <br> A mouth is not for talking.<br> A mouth is for tasting this Sweetness.<br> <br> -- Version by Coleman Barks <br> from a translation by A.J. Arberry<br> "Like This" <br> Maypop, 1990<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> <br> Leap, leap from the world, that you may be king of the world;<br> seize the sugar tray that you may be a sugar plantation.<br> Leap, leap like a meteor to slay the div*; when you leap out of<br> stardom, you will be the pole of heaven.*<br> When Noah sets out for the sea, you will be his ship; when the<br> Messiah goes to heaven, you will be the ladder.<br> Now like Jesus of Mary you become the soul's physician; and <br> now like Moses of Emran you will go forth to be a shepherd.<br> There is a spiritual fire for the sake of cooking you; if you leap<br> back like a woman, you will be a raw cuckold.<br> If you do not flee from the fire, and become wholly cooked<br> like well-baked bread, you will be a master and lord of the table.<br> When you come to the table and the brethren receive you, like<br> bread you will be sustenance of the soul and you will be the soul.<br> Though you are the mine of pain, by patience you will become<br> the treasure; though you are a flawed house, you will be a knower<br> of the unseen.<br> I said this, and a call came from heaven to my spirit's ear<br> saying, "If you become like this, you will be like that."<br> Silence! the mouth is intended for cracking sugar, not for you<br> to cast slack and become a chin-wagger.<br> <br> -- Translation by A. J. Arberry<br> "Mystical Poems of Rumi 2" <br> The University of Chicago Press, 1991<br> <br> *div: "demons," a Persian translation of the Quranic word "satans." Refers a<br> verse in the Qur'an (67:5) which describes how "shooting stars" drive away any<br> satans who attempt to eavesdrop on Heavenly secrets: "And We have adorned the<br> sky of the world with lamps, and We have made them as missiles to drive away the<br> evil ones." This verse is generally understood as symbolizing the fruitless<br> attempts of astrologers ("satans among the humans") to understand Heavenly<br> secrets. 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<br>
<br>
<br> Here, Sunlight offers three small excerpts from Rumi's Mathnawi,
<br>Book III, in versions by Coleman Barks and the Helminskis, and in
<br>translation by Reynold Nicholson:
<br>
<br>
<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<br>
<br>
<br>"Wean Yourself"
<br>
<br>
<br>Little by little, wean yourself.
<br>This is the gist of what I have to say.
<br>
<br>
<br>From an embryo, whose nourishment
<br>comes in the blood,
<br>move to an infant drinking milk,
<br>to a child on solid food,
<br>to a searcher after wisdom
<br>to a hunter of more invisible game.
<br>
<br>
<br>Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo.
<br>You might say, "The world outside is vast and intricate.
<br>
<br>There are wheatfields and mountain passes,
<br>and orchards in bloom.
<br>
<br>
<br>At night there are millions of galaxies,
<br>and in sunlight the beauty of friends
<br>dancing at a wedding."
<br>
<br>
<br>You ask the embryo why he, or she,
<br>stays cooped up in the dark with eyes closed.
<br>
<br>
<br>Listen to the answer:
<br>
<br>
<br>"There is no 'other world.'
<br>I only know what I've experienced.
<br>You must be hallucinating."
<br>
<br>
<br> -- Mathnawi III, 49-62
<br> Version by Coleman Barks
<br> "We Are Three"
<br> Maypop, 1987
<br>
<br>
<br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<br>
<br>
<br>Where is the nurse for the thirsty infant
<br>who with kindness would offer the taste of
<br>inner sweetness?
<br>
<br>
<br>Where is she who would bar the way to
<br>her self in order to open the way to
<br>a hundred gardens of delight?
<br>
<br>
<br>For the breast has become a barrier
<br>between the infant and other delicious
<br>tastes and countless nourishments.
<br>
<br>
<br>Our life depends on weaning.
<br>Strive to wean yourself little by little.
<br>
<br>
<br>Wean yourself from this world's food
<br>and become a healing sage like Luqman*.
<br>
<br>
<br>Become a hunter of the hidden game.
<br>
<br>
<br> -- Mathnawi III, 48-49; 52
<br> Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
<br> "Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
<br> Threshold Books, 1996
<br>
<br>
<br>*Sunlight footnote: Luqman -- The Qur'an, Chapter 31, mentions him as
<br>having received wisdom from God. Nicholson tells us, "He appears as a
<br>sagacious [wise] negro slave in several anecdotes related by Rumi."
<br>Nicholson notes elsewhere that one of these anecdotes "is identical
<br>
<br>with a story which occurs in the 14th cent. 'Life of Aesop' by
<br>Maximus Planudes. The medieval Arabic version of Aesop's Fables is
<br>ascribed to Luqman."
<br>
<br>
<br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<br>
<br>
<br> Where is a nurse for the suckling babe? - that with kindness
<br>she may sweeten the inner part of its mouth,
<br> And, though she bar its way to her teat, may open up for it
<br>the way to a hundred gardens (of delight)? -
<br> Because the teat has become to that feeble (infant) a barrier
<br>(separating it) from thousands of pleasures and dishes (of food)
<br>and loaves (of bread).
<br> Our life, then, depends on weaning. Endeavour (to wean
<br>yourself) little by little. The discourse is (now) complete.
<br> When man was an embryo his nourishment was blood: in like
<br>fashion the true believer draws purity from filth.
<br> Through (his) being weaned from blood, his nourishment
<br>became milk; and through (his) being weaned from milk, he
<br>became a taker of (solid) food.
<br> And through (his) being weaned from food he becomes (a
<br>sage) like Luqman*; he becomes a seeker (hunter) of the hidden
<br>game.
<br> If any one were to say to the embryo in the womb, "Outside
<br>is a world exceedingly well-ordered,
<br> A pleasant earth, broad and long, wherein are a hundred
<br>delights and so many things to eat,
<br> Mountains and seas and plains, fragrant orchards, gardens
<br>
<br>and sown fields.
<br> A sky very lofty and full of light, sun and moonbeams and a
<br>hundred stars.
<br> From the south-wind and from the north-wind and from the
<br>west-wind the gardens have (the appearance of) wedding-feasts
<br>and banquets.
<br> Its marvels come not into (are beyond) descriptions: why art
<br>thou in tribulation in this darkness?
<br> (Why) dost thou drink blood on the gibbet of this narrow place
<br>(the womb) in the midst of confinement and filth and pain?" -
<br> It (the embryo), in virtue of its present state, would be in-
<br>credulous, and would turn away from this message and would
<br>disbelieve it.
<br> Saying, "This is absurd and is a deceit and delusion," because
<br>the judgment of the blind has no imagination.
<br> Inasmuch as its (the embryo's perception has not seen any-
<br>thing of the kind, its incredulous perception would not listen (to
<br>the truth).
<br>
<br>
<br> -- Mathnawi III, 46-62
<br> Translation by Reynold A. Nicholson
<br> "The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi"
<br> Published and Distributed by
<br> The Trustees of The "E.J.W. Gibb Memorial"
<br>
<br>
<br>*Luqman -- see note accompanying preceding version
<br>
<br>
<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<br>
<br>
<br>~
<br>
<br>
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