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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