Don't try to hold on to this. You'll lose it. Don't pull the curtain. It will end. This moment with all of us here is paradise, but don't try to leave this...
Strange indeed is this thing called Love ... http://www.jaihoon.com/egoptics/strange.htm Ya Allah! Allow me To live little more For, Your Beloved I wish To...
This is love: to fly to heaven, every monent to rend a hundred veils; at first instance, to break away from breath --first step, to renounce feet; To disregard...
Speaking of Love, here is one I wrote. Love Love is that feeling that connects you with everything that you know is part of you. It is your heart, your senses,...
Hi all, There is a grassroots campaign underway to protest war in Iraq in a simple, but potentially powerful way: Place 1/2 cup uncooked rice in a small...
Book II. STORY XVI. The Gluttonous Sufi. In a certain convent there lived a Sufi whose conduct gave just offence to the brethren. They brought him before their...
Please note that I changed our group's name to Rumi_info Originally our Rumi list was at yahoo clubs but when yahoo merged clubs with the groups, they changed...
Hi everybody. Hope all are fine and in the pink of mesmerizing health. I really have frugal words to describe my overwhelming gratitude to all of you for...
Yoga Journal: Do you consider your work translations or transliterations that take greater liberties? Coleman Barks: It could be called many things, but I call...
THE ALCHEMY OF HAPPINESS BY AL GHAZZALI CLAUD FIELD, translator [b. 1863, d. 1941] [1909] CHAPTER I THE KNOWLEDGE OF SELF KNOWLEDGE of self is the key to the...
THE KASÎDAH OF HÂJÎ ABDÛ EL-YEZDÎ by Sir Richard Burton [1880] THE KASÎDAH I THE hour is nigh; the waning Queen walks forth to rule the later night; ...
The Masnavi I Ma'navi by Maulana Jalalu-'d-din Muhammad Rumi Abridged and Translated by E.H. Whinfield [1898] THE SPIRITUAL COUPLETS OF MAULANA JALALU-'D-DlN...
II. 126. jâg piyârî, ab kân sowai O FRIEND, awake, and sleep no more! The night is over and gone, would you lose your day also? Others, who have wakened,...
Good morning everyone, here is a great morning prayer to start our day. THE AWAKENING In the early dawn of happiness you gave me three kisses so that I would...
THE POEM OF IMRU-UL-QUAIS Stop, oh my friends, let us pause to weep over the remembrance of my beloved. Here was her home on the edge of the sandy desert ...
I call YOU with so sweet a name! ... http://www.jaihoon.com/egoptics/sosweet.htm Ya Samee'! Do You not hear the sound Of the tears dropping on the ground? Ya...
The Beloved When the rose has faded and the garden is withered, The song of the nightingale is no longer to be heard. The Beloved is all in all, the lover only...
... Reading this lovely poem was most difficult with a bright yellow ad and a flashing electric blue "CLICK HERE" next to it -- a painful aeshetic dissonance! ...
THE SPIRITUAL COUPLETS OF MAULANA JALALU-'D-DlN MUHAMMAD RUMI Book I. PROLOGUE. HEARKEN to the reed-flute, how it complains, Lamenting its banishment from its...
Listen to the story told by the reed of being separate. "Since I was cut from the reedbed, I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he ...
Jaihoon's on Air @ New York radio! What happened...to poetry? ... [Faisal Ahmed, a visionary DJ and a poet by himself from upstate New York, analyses this...
... And I say the answer is many things... Love is: That full feeling inside (I experience reading Rumi) Coleman Barks, my favorite Rumi translator, said,...
... young ... inside ... Exactly! There is nothing mysterious, nothing hidden or difficult about this we call love. But love is in reality an expression; one ...
Fall in Love the Rumi Way Intimacy with other people and with the divine is more about friendship--and hard work--than romance. Interview with Coleman Barks by...
Dear EdS Thank you. I agree: Allah is Love and has no opposite. However, I find the subject of 99 Names (attributes) a bit confusing. I find "the Loving"...
Dear group Being very interested in Mowlana and having studied Persian for years I feel insulted when I see Coleman Barks being presented as the "prime...
Dear cvworkshop_farsi I don't speak Farsi. I wouldn't speak as loudly as you, but in general I agree. There is a good web page pointing to "errors" in Mr barks...
