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Rumi dikter

Inläggav hamish » lör maj 30, 2009 17:57

It suits the generaous man to give money,

but truly the generosity of th lover

is to surrender his soul.

If you give bread for God's sake,

you will be given bread in return;

if you give your life for God's sake,

you will be given life in return.
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I am in Love!

All this advise--

what's the use?

I have drunk poison.

All this sugar

what's the use?

You say hurry,

tie up his feet.

But its my heart that's gone crazy,

all this rope

around my feet--

what's the use?

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Ever since you fled from my embrace

no one has seen me without tears

You are always in my heart and soul

I hope you too will not forget me

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The one who has not had a taste of love

Is but a piece of wood or stone to God.

Love extracts water from stones;

Love removes rust from mirrors.

infidelity seeks war, faith peace;

Love sets fire to war and peace alike.

Love opens its mouth in the sea of the heart;

It devours the two worlds like a whale.

Like a lion, love knows no ruse;

It does not change from a lion to a fox.

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Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands,

or your own genuine solitude?

Freedom, or power over an entire nation?

A little while alone in your room

will prove more valuable than anything else

that could ever be given you

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Beauty surrounds us,

but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

The body itself is a screen to shield and partially reveal

the light that's blazing inside your presence.


Water, stories, the body,

all the things we do, are mediums

that hide and show what's hidden.


Study them,

and enjoy this being washed

with a secret we sometimes know,

and then not.

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A Man Talking to his House

I say that no one in this caravan is awake and that while you sleep, a thief is stealing the signs and symbols of what you thought was your life. Now you're angry with me for telling you this!Pay attention to those who hurt your feelings telling you the truth. Giving and absorbing compliments is like trying to paint on water, that insubstantial.

Here is how a man once talked with his house, “Please, if you're ever about to collapse, let me know.” One night without aword the house fell. “What happened to our agreement?” The house answered, “Day and night I've been telling you with cracks and broken boards and holes appearing like mouths opening.

But you kept patching and filling those with mud, so proud of your stopgap masonry. You didn't listen.” This house is your body always saying, I'm leaving; I'm going soon. Don't hide from one who knows the secret.

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Rumi about Mawlana`s exalted station

Right now in the inhabited quarter, Mawlana has no equal in all the fields, whether it be theology, or jurisprudence, or grammar. In the speaking of logic with its masters, he voices the meaning strongly ---- better, with more flavor, and more beautifully than they ---- if he must do it, if he wants to do it, and if boredom doesn`t prevent him. What is distateful here is that, if I were to become young again and strive for hundred years, I couldn`t gain one-tenth of his knowledge and excellence. But he pretends not to know that. When he`s listening to me, he fancies himself ---- this is so shameful that i cant say it ---- like a two-year old child before its father, or like a new Muslim who has never heard anything about Islam.
What submission! (730)

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Rumi about Mawlana`s exalted station

Mawlanas attributes are such that not one of them can be reached by any fast-going wayfarer with a hundred thousand struggles ---- whether we talk of his clemency, his knowledge, his humulity, his generosity. That would be impossible. There would be no profit. Let him claim his rightful share (129-30)

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Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

Love alone is capable of revealing the

truth of Love and being a Lover.

The way of our prophets is the way of Truth.

If you want to live, die in Love;

die in Love if you want to remain alive.

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How shall we seek real knowledge?

By renouncing knowledge.

How shall we seek salvation?

By renouncing our own salvation.

How shall we seek Existence?

By renouncing our existence.

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Leave all worries behind

and make your heart totally pure,

like the face of a mirror

with no image or design.

Once your heart is cleansed of all images,

it will contain them all..

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If thou wilt be observant and vigilant,

thou wilt see at every moment the response

to thy action.

Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart,

for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.

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How very close

how very close

is your soul with mine

i know for sure

everything you think

goes through my mind



i am with you

now and doomsday

not like a host

caring for you

at a feast alone



with you i am happy

all the times

the time i offer my life

or the time

you gift me your love



offering my life

is a profitable venture

each life i give

you pay in turn

a hundred lives again



in this house

there are a thousand

dead and still souls

making you stay

as this will be yours



a handful of earth

cries aloud

i used to be hair or

i used to be bones



and just the moment

when you are all confused

leaps forth a voice

hold me close

i'm love and

i'm always yours

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One went to the door of the Beloved and

knocked. A voice asked, 'Who is there?'

He answered, 'It is I.'

The voice said, 'There is no room for Me and Thee.'

The door was shut.

After a year of solitude and deprivation he returned and knocked.

A voice from within asked, 'Who is there?'

The man said, 'It is Thee.'

The door was opened for him.

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I don’t need
a companion who is
nasty sad and sour

the one who is
like a grave
dark depressing and bitter

a sweetheart is a mirror
a friend a delicious cake
it isn’t worth spending
an hour with anyone else

a companion who is
in love only with the self
has five distinct characters

stone hearted
unsure of every step

lazy and disinterested
keeping a poisonous face

the more this companion waits around
the more bitter everything will get
just like a vinegar
getting more sour with time

enough is said about
sour and bitter faces

a heart filled with desire for
sweetness and tender souls
must not waste itself with unsavory matters

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The source of your arrogance and anger is your lust
and the rootedness of that is in your habits.

Someone who makes a habit of eating clay
gets mad when you try to keep him from it.
Being a leader can also be a poisonous habit,
so that when someone questions your authority,
you think, "He's trying to take over."
You may respond courteously, but inside you rage.

Always check your inner state
with the lord of your heart.
Copper doesn't know it's copper,
until it's changed to gold.

Your loving doesn't know its majesty,
until it knows its helplessness.

These gifts from the Friend, a robe
of skin and veins, a teacher within,
wear them and become a school,
with a greater sheikh nearby.
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Your thinking is like a camel driver and you are the camel:

it drives you in every direction under its bitter control.

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The tale of love must be heard from love itself.

For like a mirror it is both mute and expressive.

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To speak the same language is to share the same blood,

to be related

To live with strangers is the life of captivity

Many are Hindus and Turks who share the same language

Many are Turks who may be alien to one another

The language of companionship is a unique one

To reach someone through the heart is other than reaching them

through words.

Besides words, allusions and arguments

The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak

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Every part of you has a secret language

your hands and your feet

say what you've done

and every need brings in what's needed

pain bears its cure like a child



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The news we hear is full

of grief for that future,

but the real news inside here is


there's no news at all.


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God Almighty described Himself as

the All-Seeing in order to warn you

against evil, He described Himself

as the All-Hearing to admonish you

not to say anything bad, and He

described Himself as the All-Knowing

to inform you that He knows you and

therefore to exhort you to be alert

to corrupt thoughts and considerations.

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God hath not created

on the earth or in the

lofty mountains

any thing more occult

than the spirit of man


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They say I tell the truth.

Then they ask me to do a puppet show of myself

in the bazaar.

I'm not something to sell.

I have already been bought.

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I want to sing like birds sing;

not worrying who listens

or what they think

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No mirror ever became iron again;

No bread ever became wheat;

No ripened grape ever became sour again.

Mature yourself and be secure

From a change for the worse. Become the Light


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Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything
out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.
It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart,
so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.
It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have
room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart,
far better things will take their place.


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Human beings are like untanned hide: apply bitter acids and rub
them in vigorously and the leather will become soft and supple
and full of beauty.Similarly, if you tan the human soul with harsh discipline and suffering, it will gradually become pure, lovely, and very strong.

But if you cannot mortify yourself, accept the sufferings God sends you,for afflictions sent by the Friend are the means of your purification.The medicine becomes palatable to the sick when they focus on their health.

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If you could get rid of yourself just once,

The secret of secrets would open to you.

The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe

Would appear on the mirror of your perception.

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A lifetime without Love is of no account

Love is the Water of Life

Drink it down with heart and soul!


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A strange passion is moving in my head.

My heart has become a bird

which searches in the sky.

Every part of me goes in different directions.

Is it really so

that the one I love is everywhere?

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Take someone who doesn't keep score,

who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,

who has not the slightest interest even

is his own personality: he's free.


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For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.

From within, I couldn't decide what to do.

Unable to see, I heard my name being called.

Then I walked outside.

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Most of these shaykhs have been highwaymen of Muhammad`s religion. All these mice in the house of Muhammad`s religion have worked ruin. But, God has cats among His dear servants, and they clear away the mice. If a hundred thousand mice were to gather together, they wouldn`t have the gall to look at the cat, because the cat`s awesomeness does not leave them any togetherness.

The cat is togetherness itself. If the mice were to come together, they would cooperate. Some mice would be sacrifised. But when the cat caught one, it would be kept busy. Then another would scratch out its eyes, and another would attack its head. They would kill it, or at least it would flee. Otherwise, it`s just that their fear doesn´t allow the mice to have togetherness, but the cat is togetherness


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First

He

pampered me

with

a hundred favors.

Then

He

melted me

with

the fires of sorrows.

After

He

sealed me

with

the Seal of Love,

I became Him.

Then

He

threw my self

out of me.

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If you are irritated by every rub,

how will your mirror be polished?


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The poet digs a waterway

To flow through centuries

Each age has its own speakers, I know

But the poets of the past can help too

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The religion of love is separate from all forms of religions

Lovers are of one nation and one religion - love

And that is God.

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Someone asked: What is love?

I said: Don’t ask about this meaning.

You will see when you become like me.

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