Omar and the man who thought he saw the new moon. OMAR was caliph; the month of the fast had come round. A crowd of people ran to the top of a hill to draw a...
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Mar 1, 2001 6:19 pm
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61-The mouse and the camel, a warning against spiritual pride A LITTLE mouse once caught in its paws a camel's head-rope and in a spirit of emulation went off...
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Mar 3, 2001 6:39 pm
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A THIEF IN THE NIGHT Suddenly (yet somehow unexpected) he arrived the guest... the heart trembling "Who's there?" and soul responding "The Moon..." came into...
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Mar 5, 2001 10:11 pm
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The Awakening In the early dawn of happiness you gave me three kisses so that I would wake up to this moment of love I tried to remember in my heart what I’d...
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Mar 9, 2001 12:51 pm
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22-The man who stole a snake, ano the answer to prayer A THIEF once stole a snake from a snake-catcher, and in his folly accounted it a rich prize. The...
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Mar 10, 2001 9:25 pm
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Poor copies out of heaven's originals, Pale earthly pictures mouldering to decay, What care although your beauties break and fall, When that which gave them...
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Mar 11, 2001 1:40 pm
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DESCENT I made a far journey Earth's fair cities to view, but like to love's city City none I knew At the first I knew not That city's worth, And turned in my...
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Mar 12, 2001 12:15 pm
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That moon, which the sky ne'er saw even in dreams, has returned And brought a fire no water can quench. See the body' s house, and see my. soul, This made...
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Mar 14, 2001 8:29 pm
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Sometimes I wonder, sweetest love, if you Were a mere dream in along winter night, A dream of spring-days, and of golden light Which sheds its rays upon a...
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Mar 16, 2001 10:39 pm
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Gratitude is a hunting and a shackling of benefits. When you hear the voice of gratitude, you get ready to give more. When God loves a servant He afflicts him;...
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Mar 19, 2001 9:10 pm
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Today is the Persian New Year, Novrouz, here is a poem for the Spring The springtime of Lovers has come, that this dust bowl may become a garden; the...
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Mar 21, 2001 4:26 pm
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Turn me like a waterwheel turning a millstone. Plenty of water, a Living River. Keep me in one place and scatter the love. Leaf-moves in wind, straw drawn...
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Mar 23, 2001 11:26 pm
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I Know I know There are no birch trees in Konya They grow further north under the silvery sky mirrored in brownish brooks in the Sarmathian steppe or in...
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Mar 24, 2001 8:07 pm
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The man of God is drunken without wine, The man of God is full without meat. The man of God is distraught and bewildered, The man of God has no food or sleep. ...
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Mar 25, 2001 8:31 pm
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Salams, I have recently added some new pages and with new content, a new contribution page, I'd like to thank Eliza Tasbihi [etasbi@...] for her...
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Mar 25, 2001 9:45 pm
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Everyone Is Dying Everyone in the world, whether man or woman, is dying and continually passing through the agony of death. Regard their words as the final...
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Mar 31, 2001 8:33 am
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Demolish this house, for a thousand houses may be made from the carnelian. A treasure lies beneath the house, So don't stand still, for there is no other way. ...
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Apr 1, 2001 11:30 am
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O thou who art my soul's comfort in the season of sorrow, O thou who art my spirit's treasure in the bitterness of dearth ! That which the imagination has not...
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Apr 1, 2001 5:42 pm
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what is this fragrance? is it from heaven? whose laughter is this? is it Houris in paradise? what wedding is this with moon for a platter and heaven for a...
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Apr 3, 2001 8:36 pm
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THE INTELLECT SAYS The intellect says: "The six directions are limits: there is no way out." Love says: "There is a way. I have travelled it thousands of...
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Apr 5, 2001 8:21 pm
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Oh God! I have discovered love! How marvellous! how good! How beautiful it is! My body is warm from the heat of this love How secret! How deep! How obvious it...
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Apr 8, 2001 8:59 pm
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Hello, you can now read the "Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz" edited and translated by R. A. Nicholson, Ist published in 1898 at ...
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Apr 8, 2001 9:58 pm
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Surrender I love nothing is eternal but drinking your wine There is no reason for bringing my life to you other than losing it I said, "I just want to know you...
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Apr 11, 2001 9:24 pm
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O YOU WHOSE NAME is food for drunken souls And days with whom illuminated my mind! My pale face turned the word into pure gold Until I saw your shining silver...
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Apr 13, 2001 5:26 pm
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Discourse 4 Some one said: Here is something I have forgotten. The Master said: There is one thing in this world which must never be forgotten. If you were to...
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Apr 14, 2001 11:10 pm
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67-The jackal that pretended to be a peacock A JACKAL once got into a dyeing-vat and there tarried for a space. Then he got out again, and his skin was stained...
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Apr 18, 2001 8:27 pm
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It is the rainy season, I dig a canal; In the hope of union I clap my hands. The clouds are pregnant with drops from the sea of love; I am pregnant with those...
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Apr 27, 2001 7:29 am
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Now sleeping, now awake, my hart is in constant fervor. It is a covered saucepan, placed on fire. O you! who have offered us from a cup a silencing wine; Each...
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May 1, 2001 8:04 am
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COME TO THE ROOF and look at the new moon! Come in the garden, pluck and apple soon! The apple gown in Anatolia- Its fragrance reaches tot he farthest East! ...
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May 8, 2001 11:40 am
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THROUGH LOVE all that is bitter will sweet Through Love all that is copper will be gold. Through Love all dregs will turn to purest wine Through Love all pain...
