Why Does Your Soul Keep Growing? (2/5/17) Is there a lip from which the smell of Soul doesn’t come? Is there a heart in which He doesn’t have a trace? If there are no provisions coming from that famous table, why is every particle chewing cud like a camel? More...
The Hidden Treasure (1/29/17) We are the hidden treasure of this muddy world. We are the owner of the land of Eternity. Once we pass through the darkness of this mud, We are Hizir* and the Fountain of Life. *Legendary Godsend who attained immortality by drinking from the water of More...
The Smoke and Saliva of Thought (1/22/17) If Love has the desire to embrace and kiss someone, who could resist, my friend, who could? When the Sultan goes hunting, the place where He hunts smiles. But, when the Sultan becomes the hunt, what can you say to that? More...
Only by the Heart (1/15/17) I asked an old wise mind secretly last night, “Open to me the secret of this world.” He lowered his voice and whispered in my ear, “Be silent. It cannot be said. It can be understood only by the heart.” Rubailer, Page 250, Rubai #3 More...
A Curtain to the Soul (1/8/17) The words which come from Soul are a curtain to the soul. The fog which comes from the sea hides the coast and the sea’s pearls. It is a great task to get involved in philosophical discourses. But, explanation is the curtain to More...
It Is Time (1/1/17)
Category: quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry
It Is Time (1/1/17) How long will we be satisfied by the shapes and appearances of time? How long will we watch and sniff after existence? I am tired of the materials and creatures of the present; it is time to see that Beauty of Beauties. But, when I look More...
Yes (12/25/16)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), Rumi Poetry
Yes, that door will be opened in the end. Yes, in the end, that silver-bodied charmer will appear, show his face. Our cupbearer remembers those drunks. Yes, he will come back again with glass and wine. Yes, the spring of beauty will come to the garden. Those fresh More...
O Wounded Heart, Relax (12/18/16) O wounded heart, relax. The time has come for relief. Breathe easy. That peerless Beloved, so kind and generous to lovers, has dressed as a human and come into this world. Rubailer, Page 222, Rubai #1 More...
You Are the Only One (12/12/16) You are the only one with us from the beginning of the beginning, O Love. Tell us the secrets one by one; You are in the same house as we are. We were afraid of Your fire. That’s why we closed our mouth, quit More...
Where Is Our End? (12/4/16) The wine which is forbidden to the body is served to the soul of the one who is free from the body’s bondage. Until the last drop, don’t say, “This is the end.” Who knows where our beginning is? Likewise, where is our end? Rubailer, Page 274, Rubai #4 More...