His Question (8/30/2020)
Category: quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry
His Question (8/30-2020) Yesterday, this slave was the moon of soul. In his search for proofs and explanations, he asked a difficult question. Although no answer came, his question just disappeared. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1, page 205. More...
Today is a Day of Joy (8/23/2020) Come. Today is a day of celebration for us. From now on, joy and pleasure will keep growing. Clap your hands and say, “Today is a day of joy. A beautiful day becomes apparent right at its beginning. Who in this More...
Only a Fool Says… (8/16/2020) Union with God cannot be achieved until a person completely annihilates his self. Such a Union is not the merging of two to make one. Union is your total annihilation. Absurdity doesn’t turn falsehood into Truth. Only a fool says, “Everything is God.” Rubailer (2016), More...
“Where is His Roof?” (8/9/2020) Come, O One who gives new life to the world. Stop the workings of this smart mind. I am like an arrow. I cannot fly unless You throw me. Come and set Your bow once more. Thanks to Your Love, the cup has More...
A One-Year-Old Love (8/2/2020) An eye which gazes upon that rose, that tulip fills the whirling sky with wails and cries. The intoxication you get from a one-year-old Love you could never get from a thousand-years-old wine. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1, page 186. More...
Enough for Us (7/26/2020) What is night, what is day for us as long as He is in our heart? He is the One who burns our heart. It doesn’t matter if the sun rises or sets. Our Beauty who enlightens and adds Soul to our soul is enough More...
From Behind Thousands of Curtains 7/19/2020 Once my soul had turned its face to the Essence and given up whys, whats and hows, it started to see eternity. The secret of Love and the meaning of creation which had been concealed from it up until then appeared from behind thousands More...
This Fire (7/12/2020)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), Rumi Poetry
This Fire (7/12/2020) If you want to enlighten the universe, if you want to increase the light of this world, all your body must turn into fire like the sun. If you want the Sun of suns to accept you, you have to melt and disappear like the circle More...
Hundreds of Sighs (7/5/2020) On a cloudless summer night when the stars are shining and the heart of the sky is turning into a rose garden, there are thousands of signs of Divine Love all around. Hundreds of sighs rise up from me which illuminate the mirror of my heart. More...
Songs and Screams (6/28/2020) Every night, the specter of my Beauty praises the attributes of my Essence and talks about the Absence of my Essence which proves my Existence. The Sultan of chess of the seven stars sends a sign from His ayn*-like eye and cim-like ear which checkmates More...