Shams-e Tabrîzî said to Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Happy Birthday Beloved Rumi ♡

"A hundred more years from now,

My Poems will be your evening-talks,

Just like Joseph's beauty!"

-Rumi

Today (September 30, 2024) is Mv Rumi's 817th Birthday,

and just as he had said, Rumi's Wisdom is still enlightening our Globe.

                                                                      “Shams said to Rumi:

—You are a scholar, a leader, 

a guide, and an authority!

Rumi answered:

—I am no longer the scholar, leader, 

and guide of the external world… 

I am one of the poor on a journey 

in the world beyond reason, 

lit by the torch you sparked.

Shams said again:

—You still maintain rational thinking! 

Since you could not go beyond reason, 

you are not a native of this region!

Rumi responded:

—From now on, 

I will veil my mind with my heart… 

I became crazy… 

With your spiritual guidance, 

I became a native of this land.

Shams said:

—You still make calculations! 

You are not intoxicated with love! 

You are out of this world! 

This world is lit not by mind but by love. 

You cannot even see what is before you!

Rumi said to Shams:

—Since that moment, 

with your spiritual guidance, 

I became a fire from top to bottom 

entirely covered by love and ecstasy.

This time Shams said:

—You are the torch of this community! 

Your place is high.

Rumi said:

—From now on, my torch is extinguished. 

In my eye, it is no different 

from the May beetle. 

I am now walking under the light 

of other torches.

Shams said:

—You are not dead. 

You still maintain your external life. 

You cannot cross through this door 

like that to the other side. 

You have to completely abandon 

your mundane existence.

Rumi answered:

—It was in the past. 

After I met you, I am no longer alive 

in the conventional sense. 

I have died as I have come across 

a new type of existence.

Shams said to him:

—You still rely on your ego at some points. 

You still maintain your position and titles. 

Free yourself from them.

Rumi replied:

—From now on, I will be seeking position 

in the divine presence 

to which you are drawing me. 

I have abandoned my earlier existence 

and whatever belongs to it. 

I have surpassed it all.

Shams said:

—You still have arms and wings! 

Therefore, I cannot give you 

new arms and wings!

Rumi answered:

—From now on, I will break my arms and wings, 

so that I can become your arms and wings!”

At that moment, Shams was convinced 

that his mission was over 

as he had given him wings to travel 

to the horizons full of divine manifestations… 

And he left him alone in the world 

of blissful separation from the world of union.

From The Garden Of Mathnawi

TEARS OF THE HEART

Tranlators Sencer Ecer & Abdullah Penman

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