[Sunlight] There you are -- Ghazal 2778

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There You Are

You're inside every kindness. When
a sick person feels better, you're

that, and the onset of disease too.
You're sudden, terrible screaming.

Some problems require we go for help:
when we knock on a stranger's door,

you sent us. Nobody answers: it's
you! When work feels necessary, you

are the way workers move in rhythm.
You are what is: the field, the players,

the ball, those watching. Someone
claims to have evidence that you do

not exist. You're the one who brings
the evidence in, and the evidence

itself. You are inside the soul's
great fear, every natural pleasure,

every vicious cruelty. You are in
every difference and irritation.

Someone loves something; someone else
hates the same. There you are.

Whatever eyes see, what anyone wants
or not: political power, injustice,

material possessions, those are your
script, the handwriting we study.

Body, soul, shadow. Whether reckless
or careful, you are what we do. It's

absurd to ask your pardon. You're
inside repentance, and sin! The wonder

of various jewels, agate, emerald.
How we are during a day, then at night,

you are those moods and qualities.
The pure compassion we feel for each

other. Every encampment has a tent
where the leader is and also the wide

truth of your imperial tent overall.

-- Ghazal 2778
Version by Coleman Barks
"The Soul of Rumi"
HarperCollins, 2001

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[Sunlight] There you are -- Ghazal 2778

[Sunlight] The fair and the foul within

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Here, Sunlight offers two presentations of the Mathnawi verses from Book II, line 1416, et. seq., as interpreted by the Helminskis (with Persian transliteration), and Coleman Barks.


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Within the human being is a jungle.
You, born of the Divine Breath, be aware.
Wolves and pigs by the thousands are within,
the fair and the foul.
What dominates you is what you are.
If your gold outweighs your copper,
you will be known as gold. Whatever you most are
is the form in which you will resurrect.

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Bisheh-'i âmad vojud-e âdami
bar hazar shaw zin vojud ar zân dami
Dar vojud-e mâ hazârân gorg o khuk
sâleh o nâ-sâleh va khub o khashuk
Hokm ân khvor ast kân ghâleb-tarast
chonke zar pish az mes âmad ân zarast
Sirati kân dar vojudat ghâlebast
ham bar ân tasvir hashrat vâjebast

-- Mathnawi II: 1416-1419
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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A Goat Kneels!

The inner being of a human being
is a jungle. Sometimes wolves dominate,
sometimes wild hogs. Be wary when you breathe!

At one moment gentle, generous qualities,
like Joseph's, pass from one nature to another.
The next moment vicious qualities
move in hidden ways.

Wisdom slips for a while into an ox!
A restless, recalcitrant horse suddenly
becomes obedient and smooth-gaited.

A bear begins to dance.
A goat kneels!

Human consciousness goes into a dog,
and that dog becomes a shepherd,
or a hunter.

In the Cave of the Seven Sleepers
even the dogs were seekers.

At every moment a new species rises in the chest -
now a demon, now an angel, now a wild animal.

There are also those in this amazing jungle
who can absorb you into their own surrender.

If you have to stalk and steal something,
steal from them!

-- Mathnawi II: 1416-1429
Version by Coleman Barks
"Delicious Laughter"
Maypop, 1990

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[Sunlight] The fair and the foul within

[Sunlight] Come, come the Beloved has arrived! -- Ghazal 330

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Sunlight presents Ghazal (Ode) 330, from the "Diwan-e Shams",
in a version by Jonathan Star, in a translation by Kolin and Mafi, and in a translation by A.J. Arberry.

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Come, come,
The roses are in bloom!
Come, come,
The Beloved has arrived!

Now is the time to unite
the soul and the world.
Now is the time to see the sunlight
dancing as one with the shadows.

Laugh at those faithless men
who boast with loud voices.
Weep for that friend
who has turned away from the Friend.

The whole city is trembling with fear
now that the madman
has broken from his chains.

What a day!
What a day!
A day of upheaval!
A day of revolt!
Perhaps the scroll
that records every deed
is falling from the sky!

Beat the drum,
Speak no more –
The heart has gone,
The mind has gone,
The soul, too, has gone
to the Beloved.

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

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Come, come
the Beloved has arrived!
The rose garden is blooming
run and offer your life and the world
to the rising Sun.
Smile and see the beauty hidden
In an ugly face,
weep, weep for those who have turned
away from love.
What a day, what a day!
A day of resurrection!
The lover has once again broken free from his chains.
The scroll of our deeds brought by the angels lays open.
Beat the drum and say no more
The heart and mind have gone
the soul has flown to the Beloved!

-- Translation by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
Rumi: Hidden Music
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001

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Come, come, for the rosebower has blossomed; come, come,
for the beloved has arrived.
Bring at once altogether soul and world; deliver over to the
sun, for the sun has drawn a fine blade.
Laugh at that ugly one showing off airs; weep for that friend
who is severed from the Friend.
The whole city seethed when the rumour ran abroad that
madman had once again escaped from his chains.
What a day it is, what day is it, such a day of uprising?
Perchance the scroll of men's deeds has already fluttered from
the skies.*
Beat the drums, and speak no more; what place is there for
heart and mind? For the soul too has fled.

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

Notes from the Arberry text:
See Aflaki, "Manaqib" 161, on Rumi preaching to dogs at the
Crossroads.
* As on the Resurrection Day the scrolls of men's deeds will
flutter over their heads.

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[Sunlight] Come, come the Beloved has arrived! -- Ghazal 330

[Sunlight] So--no more complaining!

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Here, Sunlight offers Rumi's Ghazal Number 1380, in a poetic version by Coleman Barks, along with the literal translation by A.J. Arberry upon which Barks based his version:

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Yesterday you put a crown on my head
that, no matter how anyone strikes it,
will not fall off. Love's nightcap,
with your handstitching around the brow.

Even if my head's not in it,
because it is your gift to me,
my head becomes a pearl
lifted from the jewelbox.

Prove it. Here's a heavy mace.
See if I am more bone and marrow than soul.

Inside this skull-nut there's almond essence
to sweeten lip and throat and put light in the eyes.

So no more complaining.
Jesus didn't ask, "Where's my donkey?"
There was just one less in the donkey herd.

The strength of a rider
doesn't come from his lean mount
but from his love.

Don't say Ah, ah, when you're hurt.
Say Allah.

Joseph didn't talk about his time in the well,
but rather of sitting on the throne of Egypt.

-- Version by Coleman Barks
"These Branching Moments"
Copper Beech Press, 1988

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Yesterday my darling placed a golden crown on my head;
however many blows you may strike, it will not fall from my
head.
The cap-stitching king of eternity from his brows on my brows
sets the nightcap of love, so of course it remains for ever.
And even if my head does not remain with the cap, I will
become all head like the moon; for my pearl will appear brighter
without casket and shell.
Here is my head, and there a heavy mace; strike, to make proof;
and if this bone breaks, I am more full of marrow than intellect and soul.
That nut lacking pith which has chosen the husk – how shall
it have percieved the relish of the almond-essence of my Prophet?
A sweetmeat full of his nuts, his sugar, and almonds sweetens
my throat and lip, gives light to my eyes.
When you discover the pith, my son, and have learned to
disregard the husk, when you have entered the quarter of Jesus,
you will not any more say, "Where is my ass?"
My soul, how long will you complain? Give up one ass from
the head; behold the stoutness of the rider, not my lean draught-
horse.
Know that the stoutness of the lover derives from the
stoutness of his Beloved, for the pride of lovers arises from
"I am God Most Great."
O sighing pains, do not say "Ah, ah," say "Allah"; speak not
of the well, speak of the throne, O Joseph my soul-nourisher.

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

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[Sunlight] So--no more complaining!

[Sunlight] Turn me into patience and forbearance

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O You who have transmuted one clod of earth into gold,
and another into the Father of mankind,
Your generous work is the transmutation of essences;
my work is mostly forgetfulness and mistakes.
Transmute my mistakes and forgetfulness into knowledge:
With my imperfect nature, turn me into patience and forbearance.

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Ay mobaddal kardeh khâki-râ beh-zar
khâk-e digar-râ be-kardeh Bu al-bashar
Kâr-e To tabdil-e a`yân o `atâ
kâr-e man sahvat o nesyân o khatâ
Sahv o nesyân-râ mobaddal kon beh-`elm
man hameh halamam merâ kon sabr o helm

-- Mathnawi V: 780-782
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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[Sunlight] Turn me into patience and forbearance