Aren’t You Worth Hundreds of Pearls? (10/15/223)

Aren’t You Worth Hundreds of Pearls? (10/15/2023)

I am the wind. You are a leaf.

When I blow, how could you remain still?

If I give you an order, how could you ignore it?

Since I have thrown a stone and broken your jar,

aren’t you worth hundreds of oceans, hundreds of pearls?

Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 484.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Rubai 1036, Volume 3.

Become the Essence of Love (10/1/2023)

Become the Essence of Love (10/1/2023)

If you turn around Saturn,

you become Saturn.

If you turn around a saint, you become a saint.

If you turn around the mine of Truth, you become a ruby.

If you turn around the Beloved,

you become the Essence of Love.

Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 481.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, the Ergin Translations (apprx.pub.fall2023), Rubai 1031, Volume 2.

About Old Age (9/17/2023)

About Old Age (9/17/2023)

Sometimes You rip the curtain.

Sometimes You repair it.

Sometimes You get along with me.

Sometimes You break me apart and burn me.

I am learning about youth in my old age.

O people of the world, I can advise you about old age.

Rubailer (2016), Rubai 2, page 481.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (approx.pub.fall2023), Rubai 1030, Volume 3.

Your Being is the Curtain (8/20/2023)

Your Being is the Curtain (8/20/2023)

If you become God’s prey, you will be freed from sorrows.

If you run after your desires, you will be a slave to yourself.

You should know this very well:

your being is the curtain which conceals God from you.

Do not stay with you, or you will get hurt all the time.

Rubailer (2016), Rubai 2, page 474.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pub.fall2023), Rubai 1018, Volume 3.

The Pain in My Heart (8/6/2023)

The Pain in My Heart (8/6/2023)

If the pain in my heart were reflected outside,

every particle’s face would be darkened by sorrow.

If it found the way to my Essence,

that drunkenness, that agitation

would turn every drop into an ocean.

Rubailer (2016), Rubai 2, page 473.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pub.fall2023), Rubai 1013, Vol.3

If I Had Known (7/23/2023)

If I Had Known (7/23/2023)

If I had known my own value,

I would not have fooled around with this dirty world.

I would have emptied myself from self and ascended quickly.

I would have raised my head above the ninth level of the sky.

Rubailer (2016), Rubai 1, page 475.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pub.fall2023), Rubai 1456, Volume 4.

You are Smiling at My Words (7/9/2023)

You are Smiling at My Words (7/9/2023)

If hundreds of long days were joined together

as one very long day,

my soul would not complain about it.

On the contrary, it would be content.

It would stand still and cry from the pain of Love.

You are smiling at my words,

because you are still a cold man of knowledge,

not a crazy man of Love.

Rubailer (2016), Rubai 1, page 469.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pub.fall 2023), Rubai 1003, Volume 3.

Man’s Heart is Like a Candle (6/25/2023)

Man’s Heart is Like a Candle (6/25/2023)

Man’s heart is like a candle; It should be lit and allowed to shine.

There is a void in your soul because of the separation from the Beloved.

That void needs repair.

Know, O ignorant one

who knows none of what makes or breaks a heart, who avoids pain and burning,

Love is something to be encountered, not knowledge to be learned.

Rubailer (2016), Rubai  4, page 468

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pub.fall2023), Rubai 1002, Volume 3.

Why Don’t You…? (6/11/2023)

Why Don’t You…? (6/11/2023)

The Beloved said to me,

“Since you are buying kisses from every beauty,

why don’t you buy one from Me?”

I asked, “With gold?”

“No,” He said. “What can I do with gold?”

So I tried again, “With my life?”

“Yes, yes,” He said. “That’s what I want, yes.”

Rubailer (2016), Rubai 1, page 464.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (fall2023), Volume 3, Rubai 988.

How Could I? (5/28/2023)

How Could I? (5/28/2023)

You are in my eyes.

If this were not so, how could I see You?

You are in my mind.

If this were not so, how could I be an insane lover?

There is a wondrous place, although I don’t know where it is.

But, if there were not that place, how could I be there?

Rubailer (2016), Rubai 1, page 460.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pub.fall2023), Rubai 985, Volume 3.