[Sunlight] Break your anger, not the arrow

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Break your anger, not the arrow:
the eye of anger sees milk as blood.
Give the arrow a kiss and bring it to the King,
the arrow stained with your own blood.

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Khashm-e khvod be-shekan to ma-shekan tir-râ
chashm-e khashmet khun shomârad shir-râ
Buseh deh bar tir va pish-e Shâh bar
tir-e khun âlud az khun-e to tar

-- Mathnawi II: 1307-1308
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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[Sunlight] "Once the mirror of your heart is clear"

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Once the mirror of your heart is clear and
pure, you will see images beyond this
world of water and clay. You will see both
the image and the Maker of images, both
the carpet of the kingdom and Him who
lays the carpet.

-- Mathnawi II: 72,73
Muriel Maufroy
Breathing Truth - Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi
Sanyar Press - London, 1997

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[Sunlight] "Once the mirror of your heart is clear"

[Sunlight] Every sweet song is mine -- Ghazal 3365

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EVERY SWEET SONG IS MINE

You are my Sultan, you are my Lord;
You are my heart, my soul, and the faith of mine.

By your breath I am alive;
What is one life? – you are a hundred lives of mine.

Without you, bread cannot feed a man;
You are the water and the bread of mine.

By your touch, poison becomes medicine;
You are the cure and the sweet nectar of mine.

You are the garden, the grass, and the heavens;
You are the cypress, and the laughing jasmine of mine.

I have entered that supreme silence.
Please, you go on . . .
My mouth may open, words may come out,
But you are every sweet song of mine.

-- Ode 3365
Version by Jonathan Star
"A Garden Beyond Paradise: The Mystical Poetry of Rumi"
Bantam Books, 1992

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[Sunlight] "The senses of the heart"

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The Prophet said, "My eyes sleep,
but my heart is not asleep to the Lord of created beings."
Your eyes are awake,
and your heart is sunk in slumber;
my eyes are asleep,
but my heart is contemplating the opening
of the door of Divine grace.
My heart has five other senses than the physical:
both worlds are the theater
for the senses of the heart.

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Goft Payghambar keh "`Aynâya tanâm
lâ yanâmu qalb `an Rabb al-anâm"
Cheshm-e to bidâr va del khofteh be-khvâb
cheshm-e man khofteh delam dar fath-e bâb
Mar delam-râ panj hess digarast
hess-e del-râ har do `âlam manzarast

-- Mathnawi II: 3549-3551
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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[Sunlight] "The senses of the heart"

[Sunlight] "I am angry with God!"

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A black sky hates the moon. I am that dark
nothing. I hate those in power.
I'm invited in from the road to the house,
but I invent some excuse.
Now I'm angry at the road.

I don't need love. Let something break me.
I don't want to hear anyone's trouble.
I've had my chance for wealth and position.
I don't want those.

I am iron, resisting the most enormous Magnet there is.
Amber pulls straw to it. That makes me angry.
We're molecules spinning here, four, five, six of us.
What does that mean, five, six?
I'm angry at God.

You don't understand, being out of water.
You resemble the sun? I hate likeness.

-- Version by Coleman Barks & John Moyne
These Branching Moments
Copper Beech Press, 1988

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I am that black night who hates the Moon.
I am that wretched beggar who is
angry with the King.
Out of kindness He calls me in but I am angry
and invent excuses.
I have lost my peace but I will not sigh,
I am angry at sighing!
I had my chances for wealth and power
now I don't want them
I am angry.
I flee from the Magnet, I am a straw resisting
the pull of the Amber.
We are only tiny particles helpless I this world
I am angry with God!
You don't know how it feels to drown
you are out of the sea of love.
You are only a shadow of the Sun and
I am angry with the shadows!

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

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[Sunlight] "I am angry with God!"