August 2021 – Reading Rumi

This Glory (8/29/2021)

O Beloved, we are Your guest tonight.

Wait! Why did we say, “tonight?”

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We are the treasure of God’s secrets.

We are the endless ocean full of pearls.

We are the space between the Moon and the fish.

We are the One who sits on the throne of the Sultan.

Rubailer (2016), Rubai #2, page 339.

A Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (tent. pub. 12/2021)

Rubai #719, Volume 2.

Why are you sorry if you lose your profit, your capital?

Here I am. See My generosity?

Don’t fall into despair.

If the world disappears

and the sea becomes a drop of dew, who cares?

If it passes out and drops to the ground,

that doesn’t mean it has left My hand.

The world is a fish. Absence is an ocean.

There are so many fights in the heart of the fish.

But, I fish without a line.

Even if a fish disappears, I will still catch it.

Divan-i Kebir, Volume 15, Ghazal 98, verses 1116-1118, page 221.

I thought I could control the dog of my selfishness

by putting on him the chain of repentance.

Although he is getting tired and old,

whenever he sees a carcass,

he breaks the chain and attacks.

What can I do with this dog?

Rubailer (2016), Rubai #2, page 338.

A Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (tent. pub. 12/21), Rubai 717, Volume 2.

O heart, go. Go.

Turn to blood like you used to be.