Name: Rumi - I Am Thine and Thou Art Mine, read by Karen Golden
Uploaded: 2024-05-11T10:59:41+00:00
Duration: 1 min 39 s
Description: "I Am Thine and Thou Art Mine" is one of the most popular poems written by the great Persian poet Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273). Rumi was also a mystic, belonging to the Sufi tradition in Islam. He wr

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"I Am Thine and Thou Art Mine" is one of the most popular poems written by the great Persian poet Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273). Rumi was also a mystic, belonging to the Sufi tradition in Islam. He wrote in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and even (at times) Greek. So even in his own day, there was something universal and even cosmopolitan about Rumi’s wisdom and ideas.
"I Am Thine and Thou Art Mine" describes the speaker’s love for God, and how eternal life is obtained. The title references that which the speaker believes one should address to God.
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Eternal life is gained
By utter abandonment of one’s own life.
When God appears to His ardent lover,
the lover is absorbed in Him,
and not so much as a hair of the lover remains.
True lovers are as shadows,
and when the sun shines in glory
the shadows vanish away.
He is a true lover to God
to whom God says
“I am thine and thou art Mine.”
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Translated to English by R.A. Nicholson
Read by Karen Golden
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