[Sunlight] “You are the real object”

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Noah said, "I don't look at anyone but You;
even if I do, it's only a pretext,
for You are the real object of my glance.
I am in love with Your making—
both in the moment of thankfulness,
and when patience is required.
How should I be in love, like the unfaithful,
with that which You have made?"
The one who loves God's making is glorious;
the one who loves what God has made has no faith.

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Na-negaram kas-râ va gar ham be-negaram
u bahâneh bâshad va To manzaram
`sheq-e son`-e Tovam dar shokr o sabr
`âsheq-e masnu` kay bâsham cho gabr
`sheq-e son`-e Khodâ bâ far bud
`âsheq-e masnu` u kâfer bud

-- Mathnawi III: 1359-1361
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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[Sunlight] “You are the real object”

[Sunlight] "Come Out and Give Something"

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Come Out and Give Something

Every prophet is a beggar calling, "Something for God's sake!
Please lend something

to God." The people they ask this of are truly destitute, but
still prophets and teachers

go from door to door. Though all the doors of heaven are open
to them, they beg for

pieces of bread. They eat the bread they get, but they didn't
ask from appetite. In fact,

don't say they eat bread; they eat light. God has said be
moderate when eating and

drinking bread and wine, bu God never said be satisfied
when taking in light.

God offers a teacher the treasures of the world, and the
teacher responds, "To be

in love with God and expect to be paid for it!" A servant
wants to be rewarded for what he does.

A lover wants only to be in love's presence, an ocean whose
depth will never be known.

This cannot be said! Let us return, Husam, to the story of the
teacher begging in the street.

Listen to him: "Love is reckless. Love makes the sea boil
like a kettle. Love crumbles

a stone mountain to sand. Out of love God says to Muhammad,
'But for you, I would not have

created the universe.' Love says, 'This world is the egg. You
are the chick.' Everything

helps us understand this." The ground is low to ive some
notion of humility. Spring's

green comes to reveal an alchemy that happens inside us.
Every experience begs

like a dervish for us to come out and give something.

-- Mathnawi V: 2694-2743
Version by Coleman Barks
"The Soul of Rumi"
HarperSanFrancisco, 2001

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[Sunlight] "Come Out and Give Something"

[Sunlight] "The soul doesn't remember its ancient home"

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No wonder the soul doesn't remember its ancient home,
its original dwelling and place of birth,
since the sleep of this world covers it as clouds hide the stars.
It has walked through so many cities,
and the dust hasn't yet been wiped from its perception.
It hasn't yet worked to purify its heart and behold the past,
that its heart might peek from the aperture of mystery
and see its beginning with open eyes.

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Cheh `ajab gar ruh mawten-hâ-ye khvish
keh bodastesh maskan o milâd-e pish
Mi niyâyad yâd kin donyâ cho khvâb
mi feru pushad cho akhtar-râ sahâb
Khâsseh chandin shahr-hâ-râ kufteh
gard-hâ az darak-e u nâ-rufteh
Ejtehâd-e garm nâ kardeh keh tâ
del shavad sâf o be-binad mâ jarâ
Sar berun ârad delesh az bakhsh-e râz
avval o âkher be-binad cheshm-e bâz

-- Mathnawi IV: 3632-3636
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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[Sunlight] "The soul doesn't remember its ancient home"

[Sunlight] "What do you think will happen?" -– Ghazal 844

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if you distance yourself
only for an hour
from your endless thoughts
what do you think will happen

if you let yourself sink
just like a fish
into the ocean of our love
what do you think will happen

you are merely
a piece of straw
and we are
that eternal amber

if you leap forth
from your lowly house
to fuse with the amber
what do you think will happen

a hundred times
you've promised yourself
to depart from self-claim
to be humble as earth

only for once
if you keep your word
what do you think will happen

you're a precious
hidden diamond
sunken in the mud

if you wash away
all that impurity
from your gorgeous face
what do you think will happen

if you abandon
for a little while
your ego and greed
tear down your shield
rise with a quest
to unite with the divine
what do you think will happen

-- Ghazal (ode) 844
Translated by Nader Khalili
"Rumi, Fountain of Fire"
Cal-Earth Press, 1994

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[Sunlight] "What do you think will happen?" -– Ghazal 844

[Sunlight] “In one sweet moment” -- Quatrain 428

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Today, Sunlight offers an interpretation of Quatrain 428 :

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In one sweet moment,
She burst from my heart.
There we sat on the floor,
drinking ruby wine.
Trapped by Her beauty,
I saw and touched –
My whole face became eyes,
All my eyes became hands.

-- Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva
A Garden Beyond Paradise
Bantam Books, 1992

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[Sunlight] “In one sweet moment” -- Quatrain 428