Name: Rumi - Did I not say to you - Great Mystic Poems read by Karen Golden
Uploaded: 2024-05-23T18:31:16+00:00
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Description: Mewlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273) is a Persian poet known simply as Rumi. Rumi was a mystic, belonging to the Sufi tradition in Islam. He wrote in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and even (at times) Gre

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Mewlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273) is a Persian poet known simply as Rumi. Rumi was 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.

Did I not say to you,
"Go not there, for I am your friend;
in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?"
Even though in anger
you depart a hundred thousand years from me,
in the end you will come to me, for I am your goal.
Did I not say to you,
"Be not content with worldly forms,
for I am the fashioner of the tabernacle of your contentment?"
Did I not say to you,
"I am the sea and you are a single fish;
go not to dry land, for I am your crystal sea?"
Did I not say to you,
"Go not like birds to the snare;
come, for I am the power of flight and your wings and feet?"
Did I not say to you,
“They will waylay you and make you cold,
for I am the fire and warmth and heat of your desire?"
Did I not say to you,
"They will implant in you ugly qualities
so that you will forget that I am the source of purity to you?"
Did I not say to you,
"Do not say from what direction the servant's affairs come into order?"
I am the Creator without directions.
If you are the lamp of the heart,
know where the road is to the house;
and if you are godlike of attribute,
know that I am your Master.
- Translated by A.J. Arberry
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