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I NEVER HEARD ANYTHING BACK

Posted in Rumi, sufism, web media on Jun 15th, 2008 No Comments »

Reader: Coleman Barks

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I’M CONCEALED

Posted in Rumi, poetry, sufism on Oct 4th, 2007 No Comments »

I’m so close to you that I’m far apart,
So completely merged that I’m separate,
So vastly exposed that I’m concealed,
So whole and sound that I’ll never be healed.
#1121, from Rumi’s Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).
From translations of Rumi by Zara Houshmand

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TO HIM IT’S ALL ONE

Posted in Rumi, poetry, sufism on Jul 20th, 2007 No Comments »

The friend to whom flower and thorn are one,
In whose faith, Koran and Cross are the same –
Why should we worry? To him it’s all one:
The swiftest horse or a donkey that’s lame.
#454: From Rumi’s Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).
Translated by Zara Houshmand

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