tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31667106893433217172024-03-08T11:10:54.106-08:00Maulana Rumi OnlineUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger523125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166710689343321717.post-34159257978488897402017-12-31T12:00:00.000-08:002017-05-22T14:56:21.086-07:00Rumi's "Popular Versions" in Their Original Farsi Scripts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been receiving numerous emails requesting the original Farsi or Persian verses of Rumi's very famous and often quoted English "Versions" which are "translated" by the popular Rumi "version makers", particularly the incomparable Coleman Barks who has single-handedly made Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi Rumi a household name here in our beloved America. In some instances, it's virtually impossible to find Rumi's original Farsi verses, mainly due to non-Persian speaking 'version makers' not providing a reference to the original Rumi verses in their famous </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">new-agey </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">translation works.</span></div>
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Coleman Barks, the foremost Rumi translator and "version maker", not only openly admits, but also calls his Rumi translations as "versions," or "re-renderings" because he doesn't read Farsi: </span></div>
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<i> “Of course, as I work on these poems, I don’t have the Persian to consult. I literally have nothing to be faithful to, except what the scholars give. Ibrahim Gamard, Rawan Farhadi, William Chittick, and Franklin Lewis disapprove of making versions. I understand the objections. What I do is a homemade, amateurish, loose, many-stranded thing, without much attention to historical context, nor much literal faithfulness to the original.”</i><br />
—Coleman Barks, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rumi-Soul-Shams-Tabriz-Friendship/dp/0062350986" target="_blank">Rumi: Soul Fury</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my humble opinion, Coleman Barks deserves our huge amounts of appreciations and accolades for single handedly introducing and popularizing Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi Rumi to the mainstream American society. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's largely thanks to Coleman Barks and his truly groundbreaking book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Essential-Rumi-Expanded-Edition/dp/0062509594" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Essential Rumi</span></a>,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that Rumi is a household name and the widely read poet in America these days. And astonishingly, he accomplished it all without even speaking a word of Farsi!</span></div>
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Here are some of the most popular "Rumi Versions" in their original Farsi scripts:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;">The minute I heard my first love story,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">I started looking for you,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">Not knowing how blind that was</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">They are in each other all along.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;">تا پردهٔ عاشقانه بشناختهایم</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">از روی طرب پرده برانداختیم</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">با مطرب عشق چنگ خود در زدهایم</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">همچون دف و نای هردو در ساختهایم</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: center;">there is a field. I'll meet you there.</span><br style="color: black; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: center;" /><span style="color: black; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: center;">When the soul lies down in that grass,</span><br style="color: black; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: center;" /><span style="color: black; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: center;">the world is too full to talk about.</span><br style="color: black; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: center;" /><span style="color: black; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: center;">Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">doesn't make any sense.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><b>از کفر و ز اسلام برون صحرائیست</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><b>نه کفر و نه اسلام و نه آنجا جائیست</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In your light, I learn how to love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">In your beauty, how to make poems,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">You dance inside my chest.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">Where on one sees you,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">But sometimes I do</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">And that sight becomes this art.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;">مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۴۵۷</span></b><b style="color: #222222;"><br />
در نور یار صورت خوبان همینمود<br />
دیدار یار و دیدن ایشانم آرزوست<br />
این علم موسیقی بر من چون شهادتست<br />
چون مؤمنم شهادت و ایمانم آرزوست<br />
ای عشق عقل را تو پراکنده گوی کن<br />
ای عشق نکتههای پریشانم آرزوست</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today, like every other day, we wake up empty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and frightened. Don't open the door to the study</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and begin reading. Take down a musical </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let the beauty we love be what we do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۸۱</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dance, when you're broken open.<br />
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.<br />
Dance in the middle of the fighting.<br />
Dance in your blood.<br />
Dance, when you're perfectly free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>رقص آنجا کن که خود را بشکنی<br />
پنبه را از ریش شهوت بر کنی<br />
رقص و جولان بر سر میدان کنند<br />
رقص اندر خون خود مردان کنند<br />
چون رهند از دست خود دستی زنند<br />
چون جهند از نقص خود رقصی کنند</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are the mirror as well as the face in it.<br />
We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.<br />
We are pain and what cures pain both.<br />
We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۱۶۵۰</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هم آینهایم و هم لقائیم همه</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>سرمست پیالدهٔ بقائیم همه</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هم دافع رنج و هم شفائیم همه</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هم آب حیات و هم سقائیم همه</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are pain and what cures pain, both. </span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to hold you close like a lute, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so that we can cry out with loving. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Would you rather throw stones at a mirror?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am your mirror and here are the stones.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۱۰۷۹</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چون چنگ خودت بگیرم اندر بر تنگ</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>وز پردهٔ عشاق برآرم آهنگ</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گر زانکه در آبگینه خواهی زد سنگ</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در خدمت تو بیایم اینک من و سنگ</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Version by Coleman Barks</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t go back to sleep.</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You must ask for what you really want.</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t go back to sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People are going back and forth across the doorsill</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">where the two worlds touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The door is round and open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t go back to sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۹۰</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>این باد سحر محرم رازست مخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هنگام تفرع و نیاز است مخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بر خلق دو کون از ازل تا به ابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>این در که نبسته است باز است مخسب</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Quatrain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">555</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A secret turning in us<br />
Makes the universe turn.<br />
Head unaware of feet,<br />
And feet head. Neither cares.<br />
They keep turning.<br />
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مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۵۵۵<br />
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ای روز برآ که ذره ها رقص کنند<br />
آن کس که از او چرخ و هوا رقص کنند<br />
جانها ز خوشی بی سر و پا رقص کنند<br />
در گوش تو گویم که کجا رقص کنند</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">no light and no land anywhere,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cloud cover thick. I try to stay</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">just above the surface, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">yet I'm already under </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and living with the ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۱۱</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>افسوس که بیگاه شد و ما تنها</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در دریائی کرانهاش ناپیدا</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کشتی و شب و غمام و ما میرانیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در بحر خدا به فضل و توفیق خدا</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Let the lover be disgraceful</span><span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">, </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">crazy, absent-minded. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Someone sober will worry</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">about events going badly. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Let the lover be.</span></span></div>
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</b></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۵۵</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>عاشق همه سال مست و رسوا بادا</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>دیوانه و شوریده و شیدا بادا</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>با هشیاری غصهٔ هرچیز خوریم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چون مست شویم هرچه بادا بادا</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't let your throat tighten</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with fear. Take sips of breath</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">all day and night, before death</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">closes your mouth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۸۲۴</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مگذار که غصه در میانت گیرد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یا وسوسههای این جهانت گیرد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>رو شربت عشق در دهان نه شب و روز</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>زان پیش که حکم حق دهانت گیرد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come to the orchard in Spring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is light and wine, and sweethearts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the pomegranate flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you do not come, these do not matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you do come, these do not matter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۹۱۳</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گفتی که بیا که باغ خندید و بهار</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>شمعست و شراب و شاهدان چو نگار</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Quatrain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1540</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bird song brings relief to my longing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am just as ecstatic as they are;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But with nothing to say! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please, universal soul,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">practice some song, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or something through me!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۱۵۴۰</b></span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ای بلبل مست بوستانی برگو</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مستی سر و راحت جانی برگو</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>من مستم و تعیین نتوانم کردن</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ای جان جهان هرچه توانی برگو</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Ghazal/Ode not listed in Divan -</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Version by Coleman Barks</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>"Only Breath"</b></span></div>
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<span class="size12 TimesNewRoman12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, </span></div>
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<span class="size12 TimesNewRoman12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">not Hindu, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Buddhist, Sufi, or zen. <br />
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Not any religion </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">or cultural system. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">I am not from the East </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">or the West, <br />
not out of the ocean or up </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">from the ground, <br />
not natural or ethereal, <br />
not </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">composed of elements at all.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">I do not exist,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">am not an entity in this world or in the next,</span></div>
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<span class="size12 TimesNewRoman12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">did not descend from Adam and Eve<br />
or any </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">origin story. <br />
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My place is placeless, <br />
a trace </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">of the traceless.</span></div>
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<span class="size12 TimesNewRoman12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Neither body or soul.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">I belong to the Beloved, <br />
have seen the two </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">worlds as one </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">and that one call to and know,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">first, last, outer, inner, <br />
only that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">breath breathing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>غزل منصوب به مولانا</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>چه تدبیر ای مسلمانان که من خود را نمی دانم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>نه ترسا نه یهودم من، نه گبرم نه مسلمانم</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #222222;">نه شرقیم نه غربیم نه بریّم نه بحرّیم</b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>نه از کان طبیعیّم نه از افلاک گردانم</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #222222;">نه از خاکم نه از آبم نه از بادم نه از آتش</b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>نه از عرشم نه از فرشم نه از کونم نه از کانم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>نه از هندم نه از چینم نه از بلغار و سقسینم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>نه از دنیا نه از عقبی نه از جنت نه ازدوزخ</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>نه از آدم نه از حوّا نه از فردوس و رضوانم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>مکانم لا مکان باشد نشانم بی نشان باشد</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>نه تن باشد نه جان باشد که من از جان جانانم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>دوئی از خود بدر کردم، یکی دیدم دو عالم را</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>یکی جویم یکی دانم یکی بینم یکی خوانم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>هوالاول هوالاخر هوالظاهر هوالباطن</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>بجز یا هو و یامن هو کسی دیگر نمی دانم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>ز جام عشق سر مستم دو عالم رفته از دستم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>بجز رندی و قلّاشی نباشد هیچ سامانم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>اگر در عمر خود روزی دمی بی تو بر آوردم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>از آن وقت و از آن ساعت ز عمر خود پشیمانم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>اگر دستم رسد روزی دمی با تو درین خلوت</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>دو عالم زیر پای آرم همی دستی بر افشانم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>الا ای شمس تبریزی چنین مستم درین عالم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>که جز مستی و قلّاشی نباشد هیچ دستانم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Rumi - Ghazal/Ode 636 from Divan -</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Version by Coleman Barks</b></span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>"Quietness"</b></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inside this new love, die. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your way begins on the other side. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Become the sky. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Take an axe to the prison wall. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Escape. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Walk out like someone </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">suddenly born into color. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do it now. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You're covered with thick cloud. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Slide out the side. Die, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that you have died. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your old life was a frantic running </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from silence. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The speechless full moon </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">comes out now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مولانا - غزل شماره ۶۳۶ - دیوان شمس </b></span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بمیرید بمیرید در این عشق بمیرید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در این عشق چو مردید همه روح پذیرید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بمیرید بمیرید و زین مرگ مترسید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کز این خاک برآیید سماوات بگیرید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بمیرید بمیرید و زین نفس ببرید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> که این نفس چو بندست و شما همچو اسیرید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یکی تیشه بگیرید پی حفره زندان</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چو زندان بشکستید همه شاه و امیرید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بمیرید بمیرید به پیش شه زیبا</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بر شاه چو مردید همه شاه و شهیرید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بمیرید بمیرید و زین ابر برآیید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چو زین ابر برآیید همه بدر منیرید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>خموشید خموشید خموشی دم مرگست</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هم از زندگیست اینک ز خاموش نفیرید</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>"Who Says Words With My Mouth?"</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All day I think about it, then at night I say it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where did I come from, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and what am I supposed to be doing?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have no idea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and I intend to end up there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This drunkenness began in some other tavern.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I get back around to that place,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The day is coming when I fly off,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who says words with my mouth?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I cannot stop asking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If I could taste one sip of an answer,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I could break out of this prison for drunks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't plan it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I'm outside the saying of it,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shams Tabriz, if you would show your face to me again,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I could flee the imposition of this life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>که چرا غافل از احوال دل خویشتنم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>از کجا آمده ام آمدنم بهر چه بود</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>به کجا میروم آخر ننمایی وطنم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مانده ام سخت عجب کز چه سبب ساخت مرا</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یا چه بوده است مراد وی از این ساختنم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آنچه از عالم عِلوی است من آن می گویم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>رخت خود باز بر آنم که همانجا فکنم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مرغ باغ ملکوتم نِیم از عالم خاک</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چند روزی قفسی ساخته اند از بدنم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کیست آن گوش که او می شنود آوازم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یا کدام است سخن می کند اندر دهنم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کیست در دیده که از دیده برون می نگرد</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یا چه جان است نگویی که منش پیرهنم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تا به تحقیق مرا منزل و ره ننمایی</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یک دم آرام نگیرم نفسی دم نزنم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>می وصلم بچشان تا در زندان ابد</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>به یکی عربده مستانه به هم درشکنم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>من به خود نامدم اینجا که به خود باز روم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آنکه آورد مرا باز برد تا وطنم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تو مپندار که من شعر به خود می گویم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تا که هشیارم و بیدار یکی دم نزنم</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>شمس تبریزی اگر روی به من بنمایی </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>والله این قالب مردار زهم برشکنم</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who gets up early </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to discover the moment light begins? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who finds us here circling, bewildered, like atoms? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who comes to a spring thirsty </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and sees the moon reflected in it? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who, like Jacob blind with grief and age, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">smells the shirt of his lost son </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and can see again? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who lets a bucket down and brings up </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a flowing prophet? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Or like Moses goes for fire </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and finds what burns inside the sunrise?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus slips into a house to escape enemies, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and opens a door to the other world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Soloman cuts open a fish, and there's a gold ring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Omar storms in to kill the prophet </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and leaves with blessings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chase a deer and end up everywhere! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An oyster opens his mouth to swallow on drop. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now there's a pearl. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A vagrant wanders empty ruins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Suddenly he's wealthy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But don't be satisfied with stories, how things </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">have gone with others. Unfold </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">your own myth, without complicated explanation, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so everyone will understand the passage, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have opened you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Start walking toward Shams. Your legs will get heavy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and tired. Then comes a moment </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of feeling the wings you've grown, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یاران سحر خیزان تا صبح کی دریابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تا ذره صفت ما را کی زیر و زبر یابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آن بخت که را باشد کید به لب جویی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تا آب خورد از جو خود عکس قمر یابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یعقوب صفت کی بود کز پیرهن یوسف</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>او بوی پسر جوید خود نور بصر یابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یا تشنه چو اعرابی در چه فکند دلوی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در دلو نگارینی چون تنگ شکر یابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یا موسی آتش جو کرد به درختی رو</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آید که برد آتش صد صبح و سحر یابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در خانه جهد عیسی تا وارهد از دشمن</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>از خانه سوی گردون ناگاه گذر یابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یا همچو سلیمانی بشکافد ماهی را</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>اندر شکم ماهی آن خاتم زر یابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>شمشیر به کف عمر در قصد رسول آید</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در دام خدا افتد وز بخت نظر یابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یا چون پسر ادهم راند به سوی آهو</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تا صید کند آهو خود صید دگر یابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یا چون صدف تشنه بگشاده دهان آید</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تا قطره به خود گیرد در خویش گهر یابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یا مرد علف کش کو گردد سوی ویرانها</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ناگاه به ویرانی از گنج خبر یابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ره رو بهل افسانه تا محرم و بیگانه</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>از نور الم نشرح بیشرح تو دریابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هر کو سوی شمس الدین از صدق نهد گامی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گر پاش فروماند از عشق دو پر یابد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>"Of Being Woven"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The way is full of genuine sacrifice.<br />
The thickets blocking your path are anything<br />
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any fear that you may be broken<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This road demands courage and stamina, <br />
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Who are these companions?<br />
They are rungs in your ladder. Use them!<br />
With company you quicken your ascent.<br />
You may be happy enough going along, <br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Someone who goes cheerfully by himself <br />
to the customs </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">house to pay his traveler’s tax</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">will go even more</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lightheartedly <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A wall standing alone is useless, <br />
but put three or four walls </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">together, <br />
and they’ll support a roof and keep grain dry </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and safe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When ink joins with a pen,<br />
then the blank paper can say something.<br />
Rushes and reeds must be woven to be useful as a mat.<br />
If they weren’t interlaced; the wind would blow them away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like that, God paired up creatures,<br />
and gave them</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">friendship. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is how the fowler and the bird were arguing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">about hermitic living and Islam.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s a prolonged debate. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Husam shorten their controversy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Make the Mathnawi more nimble and less lumbering.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Agile sounds are more appealing to the heart’s ear.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در ره این ترس امتحانهای نفوس</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>همچو پرویزن به تمییز سبوس</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>راه چه بود پر نشان پایها</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یار چه بود نردبان رایها</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گیرم آن گرگت نیابد ز احتیاط</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بی ز جمعیت نیابی آن نشاط</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آنک تنها در رهی او خوش رود</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>با رفیقان سیر او صدتو شود</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>با غلیظی خر ز یاران ای فقیر</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در نشاط آید شود قوتپذیر</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گر نباشد یاری حبر و قلم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کی فتد بر روی کاغذها رقم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>این حصیری که کسی میگسترد</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گر نپیوندد به هم بادش برد</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>حق ز هر جنسی چو زوجین آفرید</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>پس نتایج شد ز جمعیت پدید</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>او بگفت و او بگفت از اهتزاز</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بحثشان شد اندرین معنی دراز</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مثنوی را چابک و دلخواه کن</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ماجرا را موجز و کوتاه کن</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Rumi - Masnavi - Book 5</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Version by Coleman Barks</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Love is reckless; not reason.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reason seeks a profit.<br />
Love comes on strong,<br />
consuming herself, unabashed.<br />
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Yet, in the midst of suffering,<br />
Love proceeds like a millstone,<br />
hard surfaced and straightforward.<br />
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Having died of self-interest,<br />
she risks everything and asks for nothing.<br />
Love gambles away every gift God bestows.<br />
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Without cause God gave us Being;<br />
without cause, give it back again.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مولانا - مثنوی - دفتر پنجم</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ترس مویی نیست اندر پیش عشق</b></span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span> <br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>جمله قربانند اندر کیش عشق</b></span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span> <br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>عشق وصف ایزدست اما که خوف</b></span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span> <br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>وصف بندهٔ مبتلای فرج و جوف</b></span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span> <br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>دیو بر دنیاست عاشق کور و کر</b></span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span> <br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>عشق را عشقی دگر برد مگر</b></span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>از نهانخانهٔ یقین چون میچشد</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>اندکاندک رخت عشق آنجا کشد</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>عشق نان مرده را می جان کند</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>جان که فانی بود جاویدان کند</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Rumi - Masnavi - Book 1</b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Version by Coleman Barks</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>“Chinese Art and Greek Art”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Prophet said, “There are some who see Me </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by the same Light in which I am seeing them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our natures are ONE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Without reference to any strands </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of lineage, without reference to texts or traditions, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we drink the Life-Water together.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's a story</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">about that hidden mystery:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Chinese and the Greeks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">were arguing as to who were the better artists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The King said,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> “We'll settle this matter with a debate.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Chinese began talking, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but the Greeks wouldn't say anything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Chinese suggested then </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that they each be given a room to work on </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with their artistry, two rooms facing each other </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and divided by a curtain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Chinese asked the King </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for a hundred colors, all the variations, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and each morning they came to where </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the dyes were kept and took them all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Greeks took no colors.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“They're not part of our work,”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They went to their room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and began cleaning and polishing the walls. All day </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">every day they made those walls as pure and clear </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as an open sky.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a way that leads from all-colors </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to colorlessness. Know that the magnificent variety </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the clouds and the weather comes from</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the total simplicity of the sun and the moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Chinese finished, and they were so happy. </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They beat the drums in the joy of completion.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The King entered their room, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">astonished by the gorgeous color and detail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Greeks then pulled the curtain dividing the rooms. </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Chinese figures and images shimmeringly reflected </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on the clear Greek walls. They lived there, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even more beautifully, and always</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">changing in the light.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Greek art is the Sufi way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They don't study books of philosophical thought.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They make their loving clearer and clearer. </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No wantings, no anger. In that purity </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">they receive and reflect the images of every moment, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from here, from the stars, from the void.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They take them in </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as though they were seeing </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with the Lighted Clarity </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that sees them.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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<b>مولانا - مثنوی - دفتر اول</b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"> <b>قصهٔ مری کردن رومیان و چینیان در علم نقاشی و صورتگری</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">چینیان گفتند ما نقاشتر</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">رومیان گفتند ما را کر و فر</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">گفت سلطان امتحان خواهم درین</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">کز شماها کیست در دعوی گزین</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">اهل چین و روم چون حاضر شدند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">رومیان در علم واقفتر بدند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">چینیان گفتند یک خانه به ما</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">خاص بسپارید و یک آن شما</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">بود دو خانه مقابل در بدر</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">زان یکی چینی ستد رومی دگر</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">چینیان صد رنگ از شه خواستند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">پس خزینه باز کرد آن ارجمند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">هر صباحی از خزینه رنگها</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">چینیان را راتبه بود از عطا</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">رومیان گفتند نه نقش و نه رنگ</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">در خور آید کار را جز دفع زنگ</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">در فرو بستند و صیقل میزدند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">همچو گردون ساده و صافی شدند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">از دو صد رنگی به بیرنگی رهیست</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">رنگ چون ابرست و بیرنگی مهیست</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">هرچه اندر ابر ضو بینی و تاب</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">آن ز اختر دان و ماه و آفتاب</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">چینیان چون از عمل فارغ شدند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">از پی شادی دهلها میزدند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">شه در آمد دید آنجا نقشها</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">میربود آن عقل را و فهم را</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">بعد از آن آمد به سوی رومیان</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">پرده را بالا کشیدند از میان</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">عکس آن تصویر و آن کردارها</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">زد برین صافی شده دیوارها</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">هر چه آنجا دید اینجا به نمود</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">دیده را از دیدهخانه میربود</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">رومیان آن صوفیانند ای پدر</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">بی ز تکرار و کتاب و بی هنر</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">لیک صیقل کردهاند آن سینهها</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">پاک از آز و حرص و بخل و کینهها</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">آن صفای آینه وصف دلست</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">صورت بی منتها را قابلست</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">صورت بیصورت بی حد غیب</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ز آینهٔ دل تافت بر موسی ز جیب</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">گرچه آن صورت نگنجد در فلک</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">نه بعرش و فرش و دریا و سمک</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">زانک محدودست و معدودست آن</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">آینهٔ دل را نباشد حد بدان</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">عقل اینجا ساکت آمد یا مضل</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">زانک دل یا اوست یا خود اوست دل</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">عکس هر نقشی نتابد تا ابد</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">جز ز دل هم با عدد هم بی عدد</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">تا ابد هر نقش نو کاید برو</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">مینماید بی حجابی اندرو</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">اهل صیقل رستهاند از بوی و رنگ</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">هر دمی بینند خوبی بی درنگ</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">نقش و قشر علم را بگذاشتند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">رایت عین الیقین افراشتند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">رفت فکر و روشنایی یافتند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">نحر و بحر آشنایی یافتند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">مرگ کین جمله ازو در وحشتند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">میکنند این قوم بر وی ریشخند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">کس نیابد بر دل ایشان ظفر</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">بر صدف آید ضرر نه بر گهر</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">گرچه نحو و فقه را بگذاشتند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">لیک محو فقر را بر داشتند</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">تا نقوش هشت جنت تافتست</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">لوح دلشان را پذیرا یافتست</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">برترند از عرش و کرسی و خلا</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ساکنان مقعد صدق خدا</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Rumi - Ghazal/Ode 314 from Divan</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Version by Coleman Barks</b><br />
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Those who don't feel this Love<br />
pulling them like a river,<br />
those who don't drink dawn<br />
like a cup of spring water<br />
or take in sunset like supper,<br />
those who don't want to change,<br />
let them sleep.<br />
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This Love is beyond the study of theology,<br />
that old trickery and hypocrisy.<br />
I you want to improve your mind that way,<br />
sleep on.<br />
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I've given up on my brain.<br />
I've torn the cloth to shreds<br />
and thrown it away.<br />
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If you're not completely naked,<br />
wrap your beautiful robe of words<br />
around you,<br />
and sleep. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">مولانا - دیوان شمس - غزل شمارهٔ ۳۱۴</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تو را که عشق نداری تو را رواست بخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>برو که عشق و غم او نصیب ماست بخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ز آفتاب غم یار ذره ذره شدیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تو را که این هوس اندر جگر نخاست بخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>به جست و جوی وصالش چو آب میپویم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تو را که غصه آن نیست کو کجاست بخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>طریق عشق ز هفتاد و دو برون باشد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چو عشق و مذهب تو خدعه و ریاست بخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>صباح ماست صبوحش عشای ما عشوه ش</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تو را که رغبت لوت و غم عشاست بخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ز کیمیاطلبی ما چو مس گدازانیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تو را که بستر و همخوابه کیمیاست بخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چو مست هر طرفی میفتی و میخیزی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>که شب گذشت کنون نوبت دعاست بخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>قضا چو خواب مرا بست ای جوان تو برو</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>که خواب فوت شدت خواب را قضاست بخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>به دست عشق درافتادهایم تا چه کند</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چو تو به دست خودی رو به دست راست بخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>منم که خون خورم ای جان تویی که لوت خوری</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چو لوت را به یقین خواب اقتضاست بخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>من از دماغ بریدم امید و از سر نیز</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تو را دماغ تر و تازه مرتجاست بخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>لباس حرف دریدم سخن رها کردم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تو که برهنه نهای مر تو را قباست بخسب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Rumi - Masnavi - Book- 5</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Version by Coleman Barks</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This being human is a guest house.<br />
Every morning a new arrival.<br />
A joy, a depression, a meanness,<br />
some momentary awareness comes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as an unexpected visitor.<br />
Welcome and entertain them all!<br />
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,<br />
who violently sweep your house<br />
empty of it's furniture,<br />
still, treat each guest honorably.<br />
He may be clearing you out<br />
for some new delight.<br />
The dark thought the shame, the malice,<br />
meet them at the door laughing,<br />
and invite them in.<br />
Be grateful for whoever comes,<br />
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مولانا - مثنوی - دفتر پنجم</b></span></div>
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هست مهمانخانه این تن ای جوان<br />
هر صباحی ضیف نو آید دوان<br />
هین مگو کین مانند اندر گردنم<br />
که هم اکنون باز پرد در عدم<br />
هرچه آید از جهان غیبوش<br />
در دلت ضیفست او را دار خوش<br />
فکر در سینه در آید نو به نو<br />
خند خندان پیش او تو باز رو<br />
هر دمی فکری چو مهمان عزیز<br />
آید اندر سینهات هر روز نیز<br />
فکر را ای جان به جای شخص دان<br />
زانک شخص از فکر دارد قدر و جان<br />
فکر غم گر راه شادی میزند<br />
کارسازیهای شادی میکند<br />
خانه میروبد به تندی او ز غیر<br />
تا در آید شادی نو ز اصل خیر</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Rumi - Ghazal/Ode 1826 from Divan</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Version by Coleman Barks</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If anyone asks you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">how the perfect satisfaction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of all our sexual wanting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">will look, lift your face</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and say,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When someone mentions the gracefulness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the nightsky, climb up on the roof</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and dance and say,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or what "God’s fragrance" means,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lean your head toward him or her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keep your face there close.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When someone quotes the old poetic image</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">slowly loosen knot by knot the strings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of your robe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">don’t try to explain the miracle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kiss me on the lips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like this. Like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When someone asks what it means</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to "die for love," point</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If someone asks how tall I am, frown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and measure with your fingers the space</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">between the creases on your forehead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This tall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The soul sometimes leaves the body, the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">returns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When someone doesn’t believe that,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">walk back into my house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When lovers moan,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">they’re telling our story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am a sky where spirits live.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stare into this deepening blue,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">while the breeze says a secret.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When someone asks what there is to do,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">light the candle in his hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Huuuuu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How did Jacob’s sight return?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Huuuu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A little wind cleans the eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Shams comes back from Tabriz,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he’ll put just his head around the edge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the door to surprise us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like this.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - غزل شمارهٔ ۱۸۲۶</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هر کی ز حور پرسدت رخ بنما که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هر کی ز ماه گویدت بام برآ که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هر کی پری طلب کند چهره خود بدو نما</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هر کی ز مشک دم زند زلف گشا که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هر کی بگویدت ز مه ابر چگونه وا شود</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>باز گشا گره گره بند قبا که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گر ز مسیح پرسدت مرده چگونه زنده کرد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بوسه بده به پیش او جان مرا که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هر کی بگویدت بگو کشته عشق چون بود</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>عرضه بده به پیش او جان مرا که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هر کی ز روی مرحمت از قد من بپرسدت</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ابروی خویش عرضه ده گشته دوتا که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>جان ز بدن جدا شود باز درآید اندرون</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هین بنما به منکران خانه درآ که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هر طرفی که بشنوی ناله عاشقانهای</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>قصه ماست آن همه حق خدا که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>خانه هر فرشتهام سینه کبود گشتهام</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چشم برآر و خوش نگر سوی سما که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>سر وصال دوست را جز به صبا نگفتهام</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تا به صفای سر خود گفت صبا که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کوری آنک گوید او بنده به حق کجا رسد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در کف هر یکی بنه شمع صفا که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گفتم بوی یوسفی شهر به شهر کی رود</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بوی حق از جهان هو داد هوا که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گفتم بوی یوسفی چشم چگونه وادهد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چشم مرا نسیم تو داد ضیا که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>از تبریز شمس دین بوک مگر کرم کند</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>وز سر لطف برزند سر ز وفا که همچنین</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Rumi - Ghazal/Ode 110 from Divan</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Version by Coleman Barks</b></span></div>
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Don't worry about saving these songs!<br />
And if one of our instruments breaks,<br />
it doesn't matter.<br />
We have fallen into the place<br />
where everything is music.<br />
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The strumming and the flute notes<br />
rise into the atmosphere,<br />
and even if the whole world's harp<br />
should burn up, there will still be<br />
hidden instruments playing.<br />
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So the candle flickers and goes out.<br />
We have a piece of flint, and a spark.<br />
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This singing art is sea foam.<br />
The graceful movements come from a pearl<br />
somewhere on the ocean floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge<br />
of driftwood along the beach, wanting!<br />
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They derive<br />
from a slow and powerful root<br />
that we can't see.<br />
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Stop the words now.<br />
Open the window in the center of your chest,<br />
and let the spirits fly in and out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - غزل شمارهٔ ۱۱۰</b></span></div>
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تو بشکن چنگ ما را ای معلا<br />
هزاران چنگ دیگر هست این جا<br />
چو ما در چنگ عشق اندرفتادیم<br />
چه کم آید بر ما چنگ و سرنا<br />
رباب و چنگ عالم گر بسوزد<br />
بسی چنگی پنهانیست یارا<br />
ترنگ و تنتنش رفته به گردون<br />
اگر چه ناید آن در گوش صما<br />
چراغ و شمع عالم گر بمیرد<br />
چو غم چون سنگ و آهن هست برجا<br />
به روی بحر خاشاکست اغانی<br />
نیاید گوهری بر روی دریا<br />
ولیکن لطف خاشاک از گهر دان<br />
که عکس عکس برق اوست بر ما<br />
اغانی جمله فرع شوق وصلیست<br />
برابر نیست فرع و اصل اصلا<br />
دهان بربند و بگشا روزن دل<br />
از آن ره باش با ارواح گویا</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Rumi - Masnavi - Book 2</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Version by Coleman Barks</b></span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>"Moses and the Shepherd"</b></span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moses heard a shepherd on the road, praying,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"God,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">where are you? I want to help you, to fix your shoes</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and comb your hair. I want to wash your clothes</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and pick the lice off. I want to bring you milk</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to kiss your little hands and feet when it's time</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for you to go to bed. I want to sweep your room</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and keep it neat. God, my sheep and goats</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are yours. All I can say, remembering you,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is ayyyy and ahhhhhhhhh."</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moses could stand it no longer.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Who are you talking to?"</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The one who made us,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and made the earth and made the sky."</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Don't talk about shoes</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and socks with God! And what's this with your little hands </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and feet? Such blasphemous familiarity sounds like</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you're chatting with your uncles.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only something that grows</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">needs milk. Only someone with feet needs shoes. Not God!</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even if you meant God's human representatives,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as when God said, `I was sick, and you did not visit me,'</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even then this tone would be foolish and irreverent.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use appropriate terms. Fatima is a fine name</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for a woman, but if you call a man Fatima,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it's an insult. Body-and-birth language</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are right for us on this side of the river,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but not for addressing the origin,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not for Allah."</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The shepherd repented and tore his clothes and sighed</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and wandered out into the desert.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A sudden revelation</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">then came to Moses. God's voice:</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have separated me</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from one of my own. Did you come as a Prophet to unite,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or to sever?</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have given each being a separate and unique way</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of seeing and knowing that knowledge.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What seems wrong to you is right for him.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is poison to one is honey to someone else.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Purity and impurity, sloth and diligence in worship,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">these mean nothing to me.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am apart from all that.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or worse than one another.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hindus do Hindu things.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Dravidian Muslims in India do what they do.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's all praise, and it's all right. </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's not me that's glorified in acts of worship.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's the worshipers! I don't hear the words</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">they say. I look inside at the humility.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That broken-open lowliness is the reality,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not the language! Forget phraseology.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want burning, 'burning'.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be friends </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with your burning. Burn up your thinking </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and your forms of expression!</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moses,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">those who pay attention to ways of behaving</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and speaking are one sort.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lovers who burn </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are another.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't impose a property tax</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on a burned-out village. Don't scold the Lover.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The "wrong" way he talks is better than a hundred</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"right" ways of others.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inside the Kaaba</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it doesn't matter which direction you point</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">your prayer rug!</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ocean diver doesn't need snowshoes!</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The love-religion has no code or doctrine.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only God.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So the ruby has nothing engraved on it!</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It doesn't need markings.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God began speaking</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">deeper mysteries to Moses. Vision and words,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which cannot be recorded here, poured into</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and through him. He left himself and came back.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He went to eternity and came back here.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many times this happened.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's foolish of me</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to try and say this. If I did say it,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it would uproot our human intelligences.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It would shatter all writing pens.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moses ran after the shepherd.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He followed the bewildered footprints,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in one place moving straight like a castle</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">across a chessboard. In another, sideways,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">like a bishop.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now surging like a wave cresting,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">now sliding down like a fish,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with always his feet</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">making geomancy symbols in the sand,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">recording </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">his wandering state.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moses finally caught up</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with him.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I was wrong. God has revealed to me</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that there are no rules for worship.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Say whatever</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and however your loving tells you to. Your sweet blasphemy</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is freed.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Loosen your tongue and don't worry what comes out.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's all the light of the spirit."</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The shepherd replied,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Moses, Moses,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've gone beyond even that.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You applied the whip and my horse shied and jumped</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">out of itself. The divine nature and my human nature</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">came together.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bless your scolding hand and your arm.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can't say what's happened.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I'm saying now</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is not my real condition. It can't be said."</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The shepherd grew quiet.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When you look in a mirror,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you see yourself, not the state of the mirror.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The flute player puts breath into a flute,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and who makes the music? Not the flute.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The flute player!</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whenever you speak praise</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or thanksgiving to God, it's always like</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this dear shepherd's simplicity.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When you eventually see</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">through the veils to how things really are,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you will keep saying again</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and again,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"This is certainly not like</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we thought it was!"</span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> دید موسی یک شبانی را براه</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کو همیگفت ای گزیننده اله</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تو کجایی تا شوم من چاکرت</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چارقت دوزم کنم شانه سرت</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>جامهات شویم شپشهاات کشم</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>شیر پیشت آورم ای محتشم</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>دستکت بوسم بمالم پایکت</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>وقت خواب آید بروبم جایکت</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ای فدای تو همه بزهای من</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ای بیادت هیهی و هیهای من</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>این نمط بیهوده میگفت آن شبان</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گفت موسی با کی است این ای فلان</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گفت با آنکس که ما را آفرید</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>این زمین و چرخ ازو آمد پدید</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گفت موسی های بس مدبر شدی</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>خود مسلمان ناشده کافر شدی</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>این چه ژاژست این چه کفرست و فشار</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>پنبهای اندر دهان خود فشار</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گند کفر تو جهان را گنده کرد</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کفر تو دیبای دین را ژنده کرد</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چارق و پاتابه لایق مر تراست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آفتابی را چنینها کی رواست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گر نبندی زین سخن تو حلق را</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آتشی آید بسوزد خلق را</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آتشی گر نامدست این دود چیست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>جان سیه گشته روان مردود چیست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گر همیدانی که یزدان داورست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ژاژ و گستاخی ترا چون باورست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>دوستی بیخرد خود دشمنیست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>حق تعالی زین چنین خدمت غنیست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>با کی میگویی تو این با عم و خال</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>جسم و حاجت در صفات ذوالجلال</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>شیر او نوشد که در نشو و نماست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چارق او پوشد که او محتاج پاست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ور برای بندهشست این گفت تو</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آنک حق گفت او منست و من خود او</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آنک گفت انی مرضت لم تعد</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>من شدم رنجور او تنها نشد</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آنک بی یسمع و بی یبصر شدهست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در حق آن بنده این هم بیهدهست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بی ادب گفتن سخن با خاص حق</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>دل بمیراند سیه دارد ورق</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گر تو مردی را بخوانی فاطمه</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گرچه یک جنساند مرد و زن همه</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>قصد خون تو کند تا ممکنست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گرچه خوشخو و حلیم و ساکنست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>فاطمه مدحست در حق زنان</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مرد را گویی بود زخم سنان</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>دست و پا در حق ما استایش است</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در حق پاکی حق آلایش است</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>لم یلد لم یولد او را لایق است</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>والد و مولود را او خالق است</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هرچه جسم آمد ولادت وصف اوست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هرچه مولودست او زین سوی جوست</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>زانک از کون و فساد است و مهین</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>حادثست و محدثی خواهد یقین</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گفت ای موسی دهانم دوختی</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>وز پشیمانی تو جانم سوختی</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>جامه را بدرید و آهی کرد تفت</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>سر نهاد اندر بیابانی و رفت</b></span><br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><a href="http://ganjoor.net/moulavi/masnavi/daftar2/sh36/" target="_blank"><b>عتاب کردن حق تعالی موسی را علیه السلام از بهر آن شبان</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://ganjoor.net/moulavi/masnavi/daftar2/sh37/" target="_blank"><b>وحی آمدن موسی را علیه السلام در عذر آن شبان</b></a></li>
<li><b><a href="http://ganjoor.net/moulavi/masnavi/daftar2/sh38/" target="_blank">پرسیدن موسی از حق سر غلبهٔ ظالمان را</a></b></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When you’re with those in whom you can’t confide</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You’re like a prisoner in chains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many Indians and Turks speak the same tongue</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet many pairs of Turks find they’re foreigners</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tongue of mutual understanding is quite special:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be one of heart is better</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مرد با نامحرمان چون بندی است</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ای بسا هندو و ترک همزبان</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ای بسا دو ترک چون بیگانگان</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>پس زبان محرمی خود دیگرست</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Get up and circle round polestar of salvation.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">Like pilgrims around the Kaa’ba </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">and the plain of Arafat.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">Haw did you become stuck </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">to the ground like mud?</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">In the end, </span></span></div>
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مولانا - دیوان شمس - غزل شمارهٔ ۲۶۰</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گرد چنین کعبه کن ای جان طواف</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گرد چنین مایده گرد ای گدا</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بر مثل گوی به میدانش گرد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چونک شدی سرخوش بیدست و پا</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Quatrain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">377</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh My Moon, without you I wept like a cloud,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Without you, I am wounded, worn and lonely</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Banished from life, to sit here without you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have died of the shame of living without you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۳۷۷</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ای ماه چوابرگریستم بی تو</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ازدست فراق تو بخستم بی تو</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>برخاستم ازجان چو نشستم بی تو</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>وزشرم بمردم چوبزستم بی تو</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The nightingale comes to the garden, no more the crow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Light of my eyes, to the garden with you I will go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like lilies, like roses, we'll open out in blossom,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And we, like water running through gardens, will flow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بلبل آمد به باغ و رستیم ز زاغ</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آئیم به باغ با تو ای چشم و چراغ</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چون سوسن و گل ز خویش بیرون آئیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چون آب روان رویم از باغ به باغ</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You, who make all my hardship easy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the garden, trees, flowers, drunk with your gifts;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rose is drunk, the thorn is lost in dream;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pour one more cup, they'll join in your wine's stream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ای آن که زتو مشکلم آسان گردد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>سرو و گل و باغ مست احسان گردد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گل سر مسث و خار و بد مست و خمار</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>جامی در ده که جمله یکسان گردد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Delicate moon, who ripens the harvest of life,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At my little window you show your face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My garden of life, bright light of my eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When will I hold your light in my embrace?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ای ماه لطیف جانفزا خرمن من</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>وی ماه فرو کرده سر از روزن من</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ای گلشن جان و دیده ی روشن من</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کی بینمت آویخته بر گردن من</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Version by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now that your lover has shown you her face,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Extinguish yourself at her feet, my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Put out the candle that burns in the sun,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And with you dies this sorrow: moan no more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۴۶۶</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>اي دل چو وصال يار ديدي حالي</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در پاي غمش بمير تا كي نالي</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>شرطست چو آفتاب رخ بنمايد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گر شمع نميرد بكشندش حالي</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Version by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The moment you find a companion in joy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is the moment you find your life's own fate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beware that you don't waste that moment in vain:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will find very few such moments again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>خودرا چودمی بیار خرم یابی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ازعمر نصیب خویش آندم یابی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>زنهار که ضایع نکنی آندم را</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>زیرا که چنان دمی کم یابی</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Quatrain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1094</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are the road of love, and at the end, my home,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the crowd, and yet I see you crowned;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I see you in stars, in the sun, in the moon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here in the green leaves, and high on the throne.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هم منزل عشق و هم رهت می بینم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در بنده و در مرو شهت می بینم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در اختر و خورشید و مهت می بینم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در برگ و گیاه و درگهت می بینم</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Quatrain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">116</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Version by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ravishing moon last night upon me shone:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not tonight,I told her, go away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As she left, I heard her say, Well done, moody one,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You don't even open the door when riches come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آمد بر من دوش مه یغمائی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گفتم که برو امشب اینجا نائی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>میرفت و همی گفت زهی سودائی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>دولت بدر آمده است و در نگشائی</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Quatrain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">110</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Version by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's joy in my heart: I have joined my lover tonight;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally free from the pain of our parting tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I dance with my lover I pray, oh Lord, in my heart:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May the keys to morning be lost forever tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هستم بوصال دوست دلشاد امشب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>وز غصهی هجر گشته آزاد امشب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>با یار بچرخم و دل میگوید</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یارب که کلید صبح گم باد امشب</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumi - Masnavi - Book 1</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Listen to the reed and the tale it tells, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">how it sings of separation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ever since they cut me from the reed bed, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my wail has caused men and women to weep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بشنو از نی چون حکایت می کند</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>از جدایی ها شکایت می کند</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کز نیستان تا مرا ببریده اند</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در نفیرم مرد و زن نالیده اند</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Quatrain 1111</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Version by </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These sweet words we shared between us,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The vault of heaven has concealed in its heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One day, they will pour down like rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our secrets will germinate in the soil of the universe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آن خوش سخنان که ما بگفتیم به هم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در دل دارد نهفته این چرخ به خم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یکروز چو باران کند او غمازی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بر روید سر ماز صحن عالم</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Ghazal/Ode 1761 from Divan</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Version by </span>Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We stood together hand in hand in primordial time;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">now at last, we are one again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are all of one soul struggling along one path,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And all drunk with the same wine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A ray from the Sun came in through an opening</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And raised us up in dignity, however low we were.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Sunlight! Don’t withhold Your loving radiance from us!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aren’t we sitting in the robes of your radiance?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ما همه از الست همدستیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>عاقبت شکر بازپیوستیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ما همه همدلیم و همراهیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>جمله از یک شراب سرمستیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ما ز کونین عشق بگزیدیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>جز که آن عشق هیچ نپرستیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چند تلخی کشید جان ز فراق</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>عاقبت از فراق وارستیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آفتابی درآمد از روزن</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کرد ما را بلند اگر پستیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آفتابا مکش ز ما دامن</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>نی که بر دامن تو بنشستیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>از شعاع تو است اگر لعلیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>از تو هستیم ما اگر هستیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>پیش تو ذره وار رقصانیم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>از هوای تو بند بشکستیم</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Ghazal/Ode 2840 from Divan</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Version by </span>Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What have you seen of your own still-concealed beauty?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of these days at dawn,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will rise from within yourself like a Sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تو هنوز ناپدیدی ز جمال خود چه دیدی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>سحری چو آفتابی ز درون خود برآیی</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Ghazal/Ode 132 from Divan</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Version by </span>Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Love, if you are comfortable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the space of a breath</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What right do you have to stand with the lovers?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can not approach the Beloved</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With your mind sharp as a thorn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Become like a rose and the Beloved will fall into your arms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - غزل شمارهٔ ۱۳۲</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>عاشقان دردکش را در درونه ذوقها</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>عاقلان تیره دل را در درون انکارها</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هین خمش کن خار هستی را ز پای دل بکن</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تا ببینی در درون خویشتن گلزارها</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Ghazal/Ode 2960 from Divan</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Version by </span>Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Particle, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s time to dance!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t you know</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are the very source</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of abundance, and whatever</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are seeking,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are its very essence?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Sun will soon reveal its face</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And invite the particles to dance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s good to be dancing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your clothes flying</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Through the air!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Particle,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Particle! One day you will clasp</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Sun to your breast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will put your head</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next to His.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That’s the point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And He will bring out the wine, telling you:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Particle! Drink it down!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And once you drink it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will merge into the soulful Sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>رقصان شو ای قراضه کز اصل اصل کانی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>جویای هر چه هستی میدانک عین آنی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>خورشید رو نماید وز ذره رقص خواهد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آن به که رقص آری دامن همیکشانی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>روزی کنار گیری ای ذره آفتابی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>پیش آردت شرابی کای ذره درکش این را</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>خوردی و محو گشتی در آفتاب جانی</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Ghazal/Ode 13 from Divan</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Version by </span>Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Heart, I said, what a gift it has been</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To enter this circle of lovers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To see beyond seeing itself,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To reach and feel within the breast.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - غزل شمارهٔ ۱۳</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گفتم که دلا مبارکت باد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در حلقه عاشقان رسیدن</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ز آن سوی نظر نظاره کردن</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در کوچه سینهها دویدن</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Masnavi - Book 6</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Version by </span>Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a street where the beautiful One</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is known to take a stroll.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When a certain radiance is noticed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Through the latticed windows</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of that neighborhood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People whisper” The Beloved must be here”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Listen! </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Open a window to God</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And breathe. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Delight yourself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With what comes through opening.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>مولانا - مثنوی - دفتر ششم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>خانهای را کش دریچهست آن طرف</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>دارد از سیران آن یوسف شرف</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>عشقورزی آن دریچه کردنست</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کز جمال دوست سینه روشنست</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>پس بگفتندی درون خانه در</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>یوسفست این سو به سیران و گذر</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>زانک بر دیوار دیدندی شعاع</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>فهم کردندی پس اصحاب بقاع</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هین دریچه سوی یوسف باز کن</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>وز شکافش فرجهای آغاز کن</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Quatrain 466</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Version by </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Beloved shines like the sun</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the lover whirls like the planet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When love’s spring breeze blows</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every moist branch starts dancing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۴۶۶</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آن ذره که جز همدم خورشید نشد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بر نقد زد و سخرهٔ امید نشد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>عشقت به کدام سر درافتاد که زود</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>از باد تو رقصان چو سر بید نشد</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Quatrain 1501</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Version by </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My heart wandered through the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Constantly seeking after cure,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the sweet and delicious water of life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Had to break through the granite of my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کس نیست به غیر از او در این جمله جهان</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>نی زشت و نه نیکو و نه پیدا و نهان</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هر تیر که جست هست از آن سخت کمان</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هر نکته که هست جست از آن شعله دهان</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Masnavi - Book 5</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Version by </span>Kabir and Camille Helminski</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are like water and we are like millstones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are like wind and we are like dust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The wind is hidden, the dust is plainly seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are the invisible spring </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and we are your lush garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تو بهاری ما چو باغ سبز خوش</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>او نهان و آشکارا بخششش</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تو مثال شادی و ما خندهایم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>که نتیجهٔ شادی فرخندهایم</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>گردش سنگ آسیا در اضطراب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>اشهد آمد بر وجود جوی آب</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>تو چو جانی ما مثال دست و پا</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Quatrain 1616</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are puppets in the hands of God</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why are we always trying to outdo each other</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we have all come from the same Home?</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">بازچیهٔ قدرت خدائیم همه</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>او راست توانگری گدائیم همه</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>بر یکدگر این زیادتی جستن چیست</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Ghazal/Ode </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">326</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Give me ecstasy, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">give me naked wonder, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O my Creator!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Give birth to the Beloved in me, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and let this lover die.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let a thousand wrangling desires</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">become o</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ne Love.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - غزل شمارهٔ ۳۲۶</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>حالت ده و حیرت ده ای مبدع بیحالت</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>لیلی کن و مجنون کن ای صانع بیآلت</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>ای عشق تویی کلی هم تاجی و هم غلی</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هم دعوت پیغامبر هم ده دلی امت</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Quatrain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1561</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a gathering of Lovers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this gathering, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">there is no high, no low,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">no smart, no ignorant,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">no special assembly, no grand discourse, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">no proper schooling required.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is no master, no disciple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This gathering is more like a drunken party,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">full of tricksters, fools, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mad men and mad women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a gathering of Lovers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>مولانا - دیوان شمس - رباعی شمارهٔ ۳۱۳</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در مجلس عشاق قراری دگر است</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>وین بادهٔ عشق را خماری دگر است</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>آن علم که در مدرسه حاصل کردند</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>کار دگر است و عشق کاری دگر است</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Quatrain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1561</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When your chest is free of your limiting ego,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then you will see the ageless Beloved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can not see yourself without a mirror;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From Thief of Sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چون پاک شد از رنگ خودی سینهٔ تو</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>خودبین گردی ز یار دیرینهٔ تو</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در یاد نگر که اوست آئینه تو</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Quatrain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">822</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And you lift me up out of the two worlds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want your sun to teach my raindrops</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From Thief of Sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>معشوقه چو آفتاب تابان گردد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>عاشق به مثال ذره گردان گردد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>چون باد بهار عشق جنبان گردد</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>هر شاخ که خشک نیست رقصان گردد</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi - Ghazal/Ode 1379</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Divan </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Version by </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Deepak Chopra</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my hallucination</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I saw my beloved's flower garden</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my vertigo, in my dizziness</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my drunken haze</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I saw myself as the source of existence</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was there in the beginning</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I was the spirit of love</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now I am sober</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is only the hangover</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the memory of love</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And only the sorrow</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I yearn for happiness</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I ask for help</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want mercy</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And my love says:</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look at me and hear me</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because I am here</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just for that</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am your moon and your moonlight too</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am your flower garden and your water too</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have come all this way, eager for you</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Without shoes or shawl</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want you to laugh</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To kill all your worries</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To love you</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To nourish you</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>در چشم مست من نگر کز کوی خمار آمدم</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rumi and Whitman both admire the body and the soul, the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">material as well as the spiritual, evil and good. Therefore, one can find elements from various </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">religions, non-religious and philosophical concepts in their literary works; elements of Hinduism, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Rumi’s Mathnawi contains the roots of religion, and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">deals with the discovery of the mysteries of reunion and certain knowledge..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Despite the fact that Confucius and Rumi were born in different periods and places, both were born at a time of social upheaval and political turmoil. Consequently, both thinkers tried to provide the means for their people to overcome the times of difficulty, first by understanding, cultivating, and realizing their human potentialities, and then by transforming themselves, their families, and their societies. Interestingly, Rumi and Confucius share more in common than most people would think and their teachings are still meaningful and relevant to the modern world. </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">The wisdom of Confucius and Rumi provides today’s readers with spiritual resources to overcome the challenges of our time and to build bridges of understanding and dialogue among different cultures and civilizations.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> This paper examines the core ideas of these two great thinkers and provides anthropocosmic insights into their ideas on nature, family and music."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Jalaluddin Rumi and William Shakespeare are considered to be the greatest poets of Persian and English literature, respectively. However, there is much more in common between these two titans of poetry who lived some 350 years and 2,000 miles apart. In his Sonnets, Shakespeare acknowledged that his writings were inspired by Rumi’s poetry. He referred to Rumi as one of “Alien pens” whom he was asked to study. He described Rumi as “He of tall building, and of goodly pride”. Shakespeare admitted that Rumi’s verses were so powerful that they were stopping his thoughts before he was able to formulate them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although Shakespeare was strongly influenced by Rumi’s poetry, it should be emphasized that his writings were not merely some adaptations of Rumi’s illustrations from an Eastern environment into the Western culture. Such understanding would greatly diminish Shakespeare’s role. Shakespeare was charged with the task of projecting these aspects of spiritual technology that were needed at his time in order to keep the evolution of human mind in sync with changes of the cosmic matrix.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Rumi’s and Shakespeare’s writings are primarily instrumental, i.e., they are not meant for enjoyment, emotional stimulation, or display of their skills.</b> The function of their writings was to project specific evolutionary concepts and ideas ahead of their actual realization. In this way the human mind could be prepared for their correct assimilation. In other words, Rumi’s and Shakespeare’s writings were based on the same inner design; they both belonged to the same school that operated in different places and at different times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Shakespeare’s writings allow us to discern the complexities and intricacies of the evolutionary process that was described by Rumi. In this context one may look at Shakespeare’s writings as a sort of magnifying glass that unveils further dimensions of Rumi’s teaching.</b> <b>By analyzing Shakespeare’s and Rumi’s writings together it is possible to gauge if, and to what extent, humanity made any evolutionary progress between the 13th and the 16th centuries.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Shakespeare’s Sequel to Rumi’s Teaching” is an attempt at answering this question and at defining what sort of evolutionary gains were achieved during that time. The answers may be found by looking at the techniques and methodologies of the spiritual technology introduced in 13th century Asia Minor and how this technology was advanced and used at the end of the 16th century in Western Europe."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>~ My translation ~</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Though a mother's love is filled with kindness,</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look at me, look at me as your father, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and not as the husband of your mother.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cherish your relationship with your father </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">while he is still alive and still around,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not talking to him is a wrong thing to do.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You won't become a righteous son</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by blaming all your failures on your father.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blaming him to hide your own bad choices</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">will only make you stay in total denial. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Listen to your father since you are his son,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and he considers you as his sultan and king.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Give your father a hand, help him out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">until the break of dawn if you have to.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See the divine beauty emanating from</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">your father's ragged old face. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you've become successful and prosperous,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it's thanks to your father's constant prayers and </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O the son of enlightenment, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">learn from your devout father who constantly </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Forgive us O Lord! We have wronged ourselves."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the fasting month of Ramadan has come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Tie up some tight knots in your tablecloths,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the upward path towards reaching God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">has just become wide open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">this is the perfect month for you to come back to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">How long will you keep on searching </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">for some halwa-sweets?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Dig deeper, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">search for the actual halwa-maker [God].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">stay dry for the sake of a glimpse of Beloved's wet lips.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">for the sake of being heard by Beloved's attentive ears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Go become completely empty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You haven't lost anything by giving up on some food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Just don't ask: Where is my soul-nourishing Beloved?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Where is the abundant divine meal on my tablecloth?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It's through pain and endurance that we become purified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It's through purity that we reach spiritual self-sufficiency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">And it's precisely through spiritual self-sufficiency<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">that a mortal bird becomes the immortal phoenix bird.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Though hardship of fasting turns our faces yellow,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">from that sacrifice we reach the soft white Hand of God.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Throughout the rest of the year, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">we never really get</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to clear </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">all the mud and debris </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">clogging our inner streams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It's during the fasting month of Ramadan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">when we finally </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">flush the clogged up streams </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to irrigate our beautiful inner gardens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Go ahead and throw all your food into the flowing stream,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">so every single part of your body is brought back to life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">by the rejuvenating divine waters of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The Prophetic saying "We've closed the Gates of Hell"<br />
actually means: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Go and close your gates of gluttony!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The Prophetic saying "We've opened the Gates of Paradise"<br />
actually means: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Polish and purify your own heart!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You have been working so hard</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">taking loads of hay and straw </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to Christ's donkey,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It's high time for you to also offer </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">your good services to Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Follow the shining examples of Jesus, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">so you can get to see </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the abundant divine meal </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">being laid out on your tablecloth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Follow the shining examples of Jesus,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">so you can get to finally see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The Soul of all souls and the Soul of both worlds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">O Jesus who are ascended </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">into the heavenly spheres,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">take a look down here </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and pull us high up there with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">O my dearest fasting friends </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">who're seeking </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the blessings </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">of Soul of both worlds, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">go and do something good for your own soul</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and for your world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Sacrifice your soul for the sake of well beings of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Never embrace the soulless habits of jealousy and envy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The more your burn yourself like a bright candle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">for the good of the others, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the more the shining divine rays </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">will be bestowed upon you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">from high above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Go straight into the lion's den,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">if you really want to hunt some wild deer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Go straight into the King's reception hall,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">if you really want to taste some genuine royal wine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>شعرعرفاني مولانا در تجليل رمضان و روزه</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">ماه رمضان آمد ای یار قمر سیما</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">بربند سر سفره بگشای ره بالا</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">ای یاوهی هر جایی وقتست که بازآیی</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">بنگر سوی حلوایی تا کی طلبی حلوا</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">بر یاد لب دلبر خشکست لب مهتر</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">خوش با شکم خالی مینالد چون سرنا</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">خالی شو و خالی به لب بر لب نابی نه</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">چون نی زدمش پر شو وانگاه شکر میخا</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">گر توبه ز نان کردی آخر چه زیان کردی</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">کو سفرهی نانافزا کو دلبر جان افزا</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">از درد به صاف آییم وز صاف به قاف آییم</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">کز قاف صیام ای جان عصفور شود عنقا</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">صفرای صیام ارچه سودای سر افزاید</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">لیکن ز چنین سودا یابند ید بیضا</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">هر سال نه جوها را می پاک کند از گل</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">تا آب روان گردد تا کشت شود خضرا</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">بر جوی کنان تو هم ایثار کن این نان را</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">تا آب حیات آید تا زنده شود اجزا</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">بستیم در دوزخ یعنی طمع خوردن</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">بگشای در جنت یعنی که دل روشن</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">بس خدمت خیر کردی بس کاه و جوش بردی</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">در خدمت عیسی هم باید مددی کردن</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">تا سفره و نان بینی کی جان و جهان بینی</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">رو جان و جهان را جو ای جان و جهان من</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">جانبخش و مترس ای جان بر بخل مچفس ای جان</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">مصباح فزون سوزی افزون دهدت روغن</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">ای عیسی بگذشته خوش از فلک آتش</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">از چرخ فرو کن سر ما را سوی بالا کش</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">در بیشهی شیران رو تا صید کنی آهو</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">You're a Guest of God during the Fasting Month of Ramadan</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>by Rumi ~ My Translation ~</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">O heart, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">you're a guest of God </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">during this holy month of fasting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You'll get to taste His divine heavenly meals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">throughout this holy month of fasting.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In the fasting month of Ramadan,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the gates of hell are closed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and the gates of paradise </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">are a thousand fold open.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">O Lord,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">teach me how to properly behave and act<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">as the head of my own household.</span><br />
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O Lord,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">my soul is humbly begging for Your forgiveness.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">O Lord forgive me, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You are the One who forgives all sinful believers.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">O Lord, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">accept my sincere confessions in this holy month of fasting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">O Lord, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You are the Only One who is Perfect and Sinless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">O Lord forgive me, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Forgive me O my Lord, for I have sinned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I fast and envision my Lord smiling upon me and saying:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"I AM reaching out and grabbing your hand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">during this holy month, since you're fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I Know how unsettled and confused</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">you often feel </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">about yourself. I KNOW.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Remember: I AM THE LORD, YOUR GOD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I AM The Physician </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">who prescribed you </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">because I know how much you're </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">suffering </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and deeply </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">afflicted </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">by your own </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">fears, uncertainty and doubts."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I shall take a vow of silence now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and let Lord, my Beloved explains it all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">My All-Knowing Lord is </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the soul-stirring Soul of all souls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">خطا كردیم ای ترك خطایی</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">بخنده گوید او: دستت گرفتم</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">كه می دانم كه بس بی دست و پایی</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">كه تو رنجور این خوف و رجایی</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Ramadan Mubarak! - Happy Ramadan!</span><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Ramadan Mubarak! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The month of fasting has come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">O you who're on the fasting path, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">blessed be all your fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I climbed up on top of the roof to see the new moon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I've been impatiently waiting heart and soul to start fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I kept on looking for so long that my hat fell off my head!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Now my head feels all intoxicated by the arrival of Ramadan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">O Muslims,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I've been God-intoxicated ever since that moon sighting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What a good fortune! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What a good luck is this </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Holy month of fasting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Beside this moon, there is a also another "Moon"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">hiding like a glowing Turk inside the tent of fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Anyone who wants to know more about that "Moon",<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">needs to come to the happy harvest month of fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Anyone whose fasting face </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">is actually wearing the silk robes of honor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">while fasting.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">during this fasting of month of Ramadan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The skies will be torn apart </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">by your sighs of impatience during fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Just like Joseph who never gave up on Love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and ultimately became the Prince of Egypt,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">you will also be rescued and elevated</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">if you </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">patiently wait </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">by the well of fasting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">during the Suhur or Predawn-Meal in Ramadan,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">so the ones who do fast can concentrate </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">on starting another tough day of fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Come, O Shamsuddin, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">O the Sun of Faith and the pride of Tabriz,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You're the commander-in-chief of</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">رهت خوش باد ای همراه روزه</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">شدم بر بام تا مه را ببینم</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">که بودم من به جان دلخواه روزه</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">نظر کردم کلاه از سر بیفتاد</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">سرم را مست کرد آن شاه روزه</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">مسلمانان سرم مست است از آن روز</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">زهی اقبال و بخت و جاه روزه</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">بجز این ماه ماهی هست پنهان</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">نهان چون ترک در خرگاه روزه</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">بدان مه ره برد آن کس که آید</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">بپوشد خلعت از دیباه روزه</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">فلکها را بدرد آه روزه</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">بیا ای شمس دین و فخر تبریز</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">When you close your mouth to food while fasting,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">your spiritual mouth opens </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to take </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">generous bites </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">of secret divine meals </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">sent down from above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Close your mouth to food and drink, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">rush towards </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the spread out divine meal </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">being set up on the heavenly dining table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Once you completely empty </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">your inner warehouse </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">it will be filled up all the way to the top </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">with the precious divine pearls and jewels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and let it comfortably rest </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">in the arms of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">its motherly Angel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">How long will you keep on staying captive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">by your own spiritual sleepiness?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Awaken out of your spiritual sleepiness for just one night,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">so you can reap the wealth and blessings of fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">تا خورندهء لقمههای راز شد</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">سوی خوان آسمانی کن شتاب</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">گر تو این انبان ز نان خالی کنی</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">پر ز گوهرهای اجلالی کنی</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">طفل جان از شیر شیطان باز کن</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">چند خوردی چرب و شیرین از طعام؟</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Fasting has come like a kind mother<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Hey kiddos, don't act so weak,<br />
hang on tight to your mothers' veil of fasting!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Gaze upon her beautiful fasting face,<br />
suck her delicious breast milk, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">fast exactly as she fasts, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and wait patiently by her door of fasting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Look how fasting makes you<br />
generously give a helping hand to a charity.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Look how fasting fully blossoms<br />
like </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Lord's beautiful Spring season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> gets filled up </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">with the heavenly<br />
narcissus flowers of fasting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Come on now,<br />
stop acting so fragile like a flower bud</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">while you are fasting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So what if you happen to feel a bit weak while fasting? </span><br />
So what if you had to give up your daily routine for a while?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You are the fearless falcon of Spring season,<br />
fly up high and join the circles of fasting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You look like a blood dripping rose,<br />
how come you are so happy and smiling?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Don't tell me you are Issac son of Abraham<br />
happily smiling under the knife of fasting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Why are you so in love with eating?</span><br />
Why are you so addicted to food?<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Look at this new world of fasting </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">unfolding right in front of your eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Go collect some wheat grains</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">for your starving and fasting soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Hurry Up! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Go down the wheat fields of your own soul,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and keep on searching for your </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">soul's harvest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">in the haystacks of fasting.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">سوی اطفال بیامد به کرم مادر روزه</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>مهل ای طفل به سستی طرف چادر روزه</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>بنگر روی ظریفش بخور آن شیر لطیفش</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>به همان کوی وطن کن بنشین بر در روزه</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>بنگر دست رضا را که بهاری است خدا را</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>بنگر جنت جان را شده پرعبهر روزه</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>هله ای غنچه نازان چه ضعیفی و چه یازان</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>چو رسن باز بهاری بجه از چنبر روزه</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>تو گلا غرقه خونی ز چیی دلخوش و خندان</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>مگر اسحاق خلیلی خوشی از خنجر روزه</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>ز چیی عاشق نانی بنگر تازه جهانی</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>بستان گندم جانی هله از بیدر روزه</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">There is no worshiping practice in this world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">that could brighten your dark heart </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">or awaken your soulless being<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">like the illuminating practice of the fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Fasting does indeed bring physical hardship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and makes a fasting believer feel really weak,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">but the very inner essence </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">of a fasting believer </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">gets perfected through fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">our materialistic lives </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">get constantly darkened </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">a brand-new kitchen can be built through fasting!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">than the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">blood-thirsty and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">heart and soul betraying</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Satan </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">quickly reaping the fasting rewards, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and receiving the eternal divine blessings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">are all possible </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">by patiently waiting </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the way the heart and soul of a fasting believer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">gets totally refreshed by the waters of the fasting!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to hundreds of regular stones laying around us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">by the rays of sunlight brightly shining through fasting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Fasting is Perfect Strainer for Your Corroded Soul</span><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">rinsing it hard to get rid of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">all your </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Fasting even </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">illuminates the Saturn high up in the Sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The time for patience has come!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The fasting month of Ramadan has come.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Go rise up high into the Sky,<br />
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Go and humbly beg Him<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So the cotton of your soul can be </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>The Holy Month of Fasting Has Come</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The holy month of fasting has come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The inner-struggle signal from our King has come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">source </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">of your soul </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">has just come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">my soul rescues itself from my mundane life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">twisting the hand of my otherwise abstract lifestyle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">now that the backup forces of my faith has come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We shall sacrifice our body </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">now that our guest has come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Patience is a thick cloud </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">pouring down </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">rain of mercy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and our soul ascends high up into the heavens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and our soul finally joins the Soul of all souls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This is the month when we shred</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and our purified heart flies high into the sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">My heart belongs to the pure Angels high up there,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">so it's basically joining its own kind!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Pull yourself up from the dark well of your own being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Stand on top of the water well and shout out loud:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Joseph of Canaan has come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Jesus let go of his donkey and his prayers were accepted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Go wash your hands clean, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the divine dining-table </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">has just been </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">sent down from the heavens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Just wash your hands and rinse your mouth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">but neither eat yet nor say a word!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">دست بدار از طعام مایده جان رسید</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">قلب ضلالت شکست لشکر ایمان رسید</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">روزه چو قربان ماست زندگی جان ماست</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">تن همه قربان کنیم جان چو به مهمان رسید</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">صبر چو ابریست خوش حکمت بارد از او</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">زانک چنین ماه صبر بود که قرآن رسید</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">نفس چو محتاج شد روح به معراج شد</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">زود از این چاه تن دست بزن در رسن</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">عیسی چو از خر برست گشت دعایش قبول</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">دست بشو کز فلک مایده و خوان رسید</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>Be Patient While Fasting &Stand Steadfast in Your Faith</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Be patient while fasting and stand steadfast in your faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Breath by breath, patiently wait to be empowered by God.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Remember that the Forbearing and Righteous God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">always bestows generous gifts upon His patient believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Any fasting believer who's spiritually fed, needs no food.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">To the spiritually full and proudly fasting believer,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">it doesn't matter if days are dragging on too long </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">or the daily tasks seeming so daunting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">O fasting man of the house, man up and wait up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Patiently wait for the heavenly dinning-table</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to be sent down </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">from the heavens above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Any fasting believer who's </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">exhausted and hungry, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">shall receive the divine strengths from high above<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to make it until the end of the fasting day.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">shall illuminate the starving ones </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">who are patiently fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Any fasting and starving believer who breaks the fast<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">by eating just a few spoons of soup out of moderation,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">shall get to taste the most delicious divine soup<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">especially made by the Soup-Maker Himself (God).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">باش در روزه شکیبا و مصر</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">دم به دم قوت خدا را منتظر</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">که آن خدای خوبکار بردبار</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">هدیهها را میدهد در انتظار</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">انتظار نان ندارد مرد سیر</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">که سبک آید وظیفه یا که دیر</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">ای پدر الانتظار الانتظار</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">از برای خوان بالا مردوار</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">هر گرسنه عاقبت قوتی بیافت</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Finding Salvation in Fasting is Deep Within You</span><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The fasting month of Ramadan has come<br />
but the Eid Festival is also with us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The fasting lock has come</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">but the salvation key is also with us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">By fasting, our mouths get closed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and our inner spiritual eyes widely opened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The shining Light of God</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">that our eyes are seeking is also with us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The Fasting month of Ramadan has come </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">for the purposes of purification of our heart,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">but the Righteous Owner of our heart is also with us.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Even if we face challenging difficulties during our fasting,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the treasure of our solid perseverance is also with us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">No matter how impure and sin-filled our body might be,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Fasting silently teaches us these lessons:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Go become nothing! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Go crush your own ego!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Go become disciple of a fasting Sufi master!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Since my Sufi master, Salahuddin Zarkub</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I feel that </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Mansoor Hallaj and </span><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Wishing All Moms a Very Happy Mother's Day</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> ~ Sunday, May 14, 2017 in United States ~</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>~ Rumi's Tribute To Mothers ~</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">My mother, she is simply the best mom ever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">My father, he is pure perfection and greatness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">I am joy, son of joy, son of joy, son of joy!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">When a mother cries out to her infant:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"Come my child, let me breastfeed you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">It's me, your mom, talking to you."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Does a hungry baby ever respond:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"Show me the proof first that you're my mom,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Before I get comforted sucking your milk?"</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">A mother is naturally soft, fragile, and special,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Yet she fiercely protects her child</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Like a seasoned hunter chasing down a prey.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">A mother travels a</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> thousand miles-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">If she has to- for the sake of her child's </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Happiness and w</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">ell-being.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">A mother instinctively lets loose a hundred</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"Oh No...Oh God No.." cries of despair,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">When her child is going through hard times.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">When a mother loses her child,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">She cries and grieves so deeply</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">That burning flames of sadness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Pour out of her grieving heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">For the rest of her life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A mother willingly risks her own life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">To keep her child out of danger.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">A mother gives up her own life-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">A hundred times over if needed-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">To save the life of her precious child.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">A sick child shivers in fear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">While having blood drawn for analysis.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">But the caring mother feels overjoyed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Knowing her sick child will be cured soon.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Don't you ever judge and criticize a mother</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">For always overprotecting her child.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>God did not want to be everywhere,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>So He created mothers to represent Him.</b></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">God created the patient mothers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">To comfort their crying babies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">God created the innocent babies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">To cry out loud and helplessly beg</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">For their mothers' comforting milk.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">No child can be born</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Unless a pregnant mother first going</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Through excruciating childbirth pain.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Pregnancy, labor pain, contractions,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Giving birth, and motherhood experiences;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">They are all God's blessings for a mother.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">God deposits His divine mercy and trust</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Inside the heart of a pregnant mother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Thus a mother's heart becomes pregnant </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">With a precious gift from God.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>That's why a mother's love is ever-eternal.</b></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Just as a mother gives birth to a beautiful baby,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">This transitory material world we all live in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Shall also one day give birth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">To an eternal and beautiful Hereafter.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">With all my above teachings and tributes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">To mothers, motherhood, and pregnancy experiences,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">I sure sound like a highly experienced male nanny!</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #990000;">~ Rumi ~ my translation </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial";">~</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>فرح ابن الفرح ابن الفرح ابن الفرحم</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>که بیا من مادرم هان ای ولد</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>طفل گوید مادرا حجت بیار</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>تا که با شیرت بگیرم من قرار</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>لیک مادر هست طالب در کمین</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>از پی فرزند صد فرسنگ راه</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>او بگردد در حنین و آه آه</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>آتش و دود آید از خرطوم او</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>الحذر زان کودک مرحوم او</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>غایبی مندیش از نقصانشان</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>کو کشد کین از برای جانشان</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>مادر مشفق در آن دم شادکام</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>نیم جان بستاند و صد جان دهد</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>تا که کی آن طفل او گریان شود</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>طفل حاجات شما را آفرید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>تا بنالید و شود شیرش پدید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>این جهان و آن جهان زاید ابد</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>هر سبب مادر اثر از وی ولد</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>درد باید درد کودک را رهیست</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>درد خیزد زین چنین دیدن درون</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>این امانت در دل و دل حاملهست</b></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166710689343321717.post-66805033204366363582016-10-10T11:30:00.000-07:002016-10-11T12:13:19.783-07:00Happy & Blessed Yom Kippur 2016!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Jewish Holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, begins on Tuesday, October 11, 2016. I sincerely Wish all the Jews throughout the world a very blessed and rewarding Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). <b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Happy Yom Kippur 2016!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Eid Al-Adha, Eid Qurban in Persian/Farsi, or Islamic Festival of Sacrifice commemorates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his own son, Ishmael, at God's Command (according to Biblical teachings and within the Judeo-Christian traditions, Abraham's other son, Isaac was offered by Abraham to be sacrificed).</span><br />
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Within the Islamic traditions, at the end of Hajj (Muslims' annual Pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia), the three-day Festival of Sacrifice is commemorated throughout the Islamic world by offering prayers, visiting families and friends, and exchanging of 'Eid Mubaraki' greetings and gifts. <br />
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As an integral part of the sacrificial ceremony to remember and honor Abraham's willingness to obey God's Command, an animal- traditionally a ram, goat, lamb, cow, or a camel- is sacrificed. A major part of the sacrificial meat is then distributed to the poor and needy families as an Islamic act of generosity and charity giving.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.363636016845703px;">"And Abraham said [after being saved from the fire]: ‘Verily, I am going to my Lord. He will guide me!’ ‘My Lord! Grant me (offspring) from the righteous.’ So We gave him glad tidings of a forbearing boy. And, when he [his son] was old enough to walk with him, Abraham said: ‘O my son! I have been seeing in a dream that I am offering you in sacrifice [to Allah]. So look what you think!’ He [Ishmael/Isaac] said: ‘O my father! Do that which you are commanded, Insha Allah [God willing], you shall find me of the patient. Then, when they had both submitted themselves [to the Will of Allah], and he had laid him prostrate on his forehead, We called out to him: ‘O Abraham! You have made the dream a reality.’ Verily, thus do We reward the good-doers. Verily, that indeed was a manifest trial. And We ransomed him with a great sacrifice [a ram]; And We left for him [a goodly remembrance] among the later generations. Peace be upon Abraham."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> The most astonishing aspect of the following verses by Rumi in praise of the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice lies in the fact that on numerous occasions, Rumi mentions Isaac instead of Ishmael to be sacrificed. As we all know, within the Islamic perspectives, it was Ishmael who was offered for sacrifice by Abraham, while the Judeo-Christian and Biblical teachings mention Isaac. Was Rumi deliberately trying to reconcile the holy teachings of the three eternally interconnected Abrahamic Faiths, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by repeatedly mentioning Isaac instead of Ishmael?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , "arial" , serif;">He (God) said: "O My servant,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: , "arial" , serif;">Only an exceptional one like <b><span style="color: red;">Isaac</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: , "arial" , serif;">Would happily sacrifice himself at My Command.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: , "arial" , serif;">It takes a righteous messenger like<b><span style="color: red;"> Isaac</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: , "arial" , serif;">To accept being sacrificed and scattered like dust at My Doorstep.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: , "arial" , serif;">Even the fatherly love of Abraham for <b><span style="color: red;">Isaac</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;">Did not deter him from sacrificing h</span><span style="font-family: , "arial" , serif;">is beloved son </span><br />
<span style="font-family: , "" , serif;">Like a sacrificial ram at My Command.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: , , serif;">Abraham then said to his son: "You are <b><span style="color: red;">Isaac</span></b>,<br />
You are my son, y</span><span style="font-family: , "" , serif;">ou are my joy and pride. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;">I'm your father, h</span><span style="font-family: , "" , serif;">ow can I lose you o my precious pearl?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;">But I must obey my Lord's Command."</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: , , serif;">As I listened to my Lord's Divine Words,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;">I felt the soft breeze of dawn passing over me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;">Then tears started flowing down my face...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;">~Rumi~ my translation~</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: , , serif;"><b>گفتا نشود قربانی من</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;"><b>جز نادرهای ای چاکر من</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">اسحاق</span> نبی باید که بود</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;"><b>قربان شده بر خاک در من</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;"><b>عشق است پدر عاشق رمه را</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;"><b>زاینده از او کر و فر من</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">اسحاق</span> تویی من والد تو</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;"><b>کی بشکنمت ای گوهر من</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;"><b>این گفت و بشد چون باد صبا</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;"><b>شد اشک روان از منظر من</b></span><br />
<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: , , serif;"> مولانا جلال الدین بلخی رومی</span></b><br />
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Since Abraham's willingness<br />
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Was compensated by holding back his hand,<br />
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Sacrificing <span style="color: red;"><b>Isaac</b></span> wouldn't have caused him any harm.</div>
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<b>چون عنایتهای ابراهیم باشد دستگیر</b><br />
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<b>سر بریدن کی زیان دارد دلا <span style="color: red;">اسحاق</span> را</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: , , serif;"> مولانا جلال الدین بلخی رومی</span></b><br />
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I'm intoxicated and bewildered by You (God)<br />
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I pay good attention to obey all Your Commands.</div>
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I'm the <span style="color: red;"><b>Isaac</b></span> to be sacrificed at<span style="font-family: "";"> Your Command</span><br />
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This is my Festival of Sacrifice.<br />
<span style="font-family: , "" , serif;">~Rumi~ my translation~</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: '';">مست و پريشان توام موقوف فرمان توام</b><br />
<b><span style="color: red;">اسحاق </span>قربان توام این عید قربانی است این</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: , , serif;"> مولانا جلال الدین بلخی رومی</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: , , serif;">Overly eager to obey his Lord's Command,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;">The soul of Abraham has started to act</span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;">Like the mad-lover Majnun:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;">Abraham has placed his sharp knife</span><br />
<span style="font-family: , , serif;">Under the throats of both <span style="color: red;"><b>Ishmael</b></span> and <b><span style="color: red;">Isaac</span></b>!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: , "" , serif;">~Rumi~ my translation~</span><br />
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</b> <b>جان ابراهیم مجنون گشت اندر شوق او</b><br />
<b>تیغ را بر حلق <span style="color: red;">اسماعیل</span> و <span style="color: red;">اسحق</span> میزند</b><br />
<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: , , serif;"> مولانا جلال الدین بلخی رومی</span></b><br />
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Jirjis <b><span style="color: red;">(Saint George)</span></b> got martyred a hundred times over<span style="color: red;">*</span><br />
For the sake of His Divine Love.<br />
<b><span style="color: red;">Isaac</span></b> was willing and ready to be sacrificed<br />
By His Sacrificial Dagger.<br />
<span style="font-family: , "" , serif;">~Rumi~ my translation~</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: red;">*</span>Saint George - known among Muslims as Jirjis - is deeply venerated as a righteous Saint. He's also widely recognized as a symbol of bravery, love, and devotion within the Islamic traditions and Middle Eastern culture and folklore. Hence Rumi's using St. George in above verse as a metaphor for love and sacrifice.<br />
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</b> <b>همچو <span style="color: red;">جرجیس</span> شود کشته عشقش صد بار </b><br />
<b>یا چو <span style="color: red;">اسحاق</span> شود بسمل از آن خنجر او</b><br />
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You're covered in blood like the red rose flower<br />
How come you're so happy and in such a good mood?<br />
Don't tell me you are <span style="color: red;"><b>Isaac son of Abraham</b></span><br />
Happily going under the knife while fasting!<br />
<span style="font-family: , "" , serif;">~Rumi~ my translation~</span><br />
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</b> <b>تو گلا غرقه خونی ز چیی دلخوش و خندان</b><br />
<b>مگر <span style="color: red;">اسحاق خلیلی</span> خوشی از خنجر روزه</b></div>
<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: , , serif;"> مولانا جلال الدین بلخی رومی</span></b><br />
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Stick your neck out, become our<b><span style="color: red;"> Isaac</span></b>.<br />
Take a vow of silence, become our ocean.<br />
So your ship doesn't get wrecked<br />
So you don't end up shipwrecked on our island!<br />
<span style="font-family: , "" , serif;">~Rumi~ my translation~</span><br />
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</span> <b><span style="color: red;">اسحاق</span> شو در نحر ما خاموش شو در بحر ما</b><br />
<b>تا نشکند کشتی تو در گنگ ما در گنگ ما</b><br />
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Like <span style="color: red;"><b>Ishmael</b></span>, sacrifice your own self in this love.<br />
A night's sacrifice brings the dawn of a new day.<br />
<span style="font-family: , "" , serif;">~Rumi~ my translation~</span><br />
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</b> <b>چو <span style="color: red;">اسماعیل</span> قربان شو در این عشق</b><br />
<b>که شب قربان شود پیوسته در روز</b><br />
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I go around in circles for Your Love.<br />
I sacrifice my own self for Your Love.<br />
Eid Al-Adha or Festival of Sacrifice<br />
Doesn't even compare to my kind of sacrifice!<br />
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</b> <b>بر عشق گذشتم من قربان تو گشتم من</b><br />
<b>آن عید بدین قربان یعنی بنمی ارزد</b><br />
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Go and sacrifice the best cow in the world<br />
For this Eid Al-Adha or Festival of Sacrifice.<br />
Unless you are a poisonous scorpion<br />
Crawling crooked through the thick mud!<br />
<span style="font-family: , "" , serif;">~Rumi~ my translation~</span><br />
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</b> <b>اندر این عید برو گاو فلک قربان کن</b><br />
<b>گر نهای چون سرطان در وحلی کژرفتار</b><br />
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We should all gain weight and get fat<br />
Like those well-fed sacrificial animals of<br />
Eid Al-Adha or Festival of Sacrifice!<br />
Because that 'Butcher of Lovers' knows perfectly<span style="color: red;">*</span><br />
How to cut and slice our sacrificial meats!<br />
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</span> <span style="color: red;">* </span>By 'Butcher of Lovers' metaphor, Rumi is referring to God. Rumi has also used 'Sacrificial Meats' as a Sufi metaphor for devout believers in God.<br />
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<b>خویش فربه مینماییم از پی قربان عید</b><br />
<b>کان قصاب عاشقان بس خوب و زیبا میکشد</b><br />
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Tell the Candlelight of Holy Quran</div>
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Tell the Pride of Paradise:</div>
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The drunkard Sufi mystics are sending </div>
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Their warmest Feast of Sacrifice greetings!</div>
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آن عيد قربان را بگو وآن شمع قرآن را بگو</b></span></div>
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<b>آن فخر رضوان را بگو مستان سلامت ميکنند</b></div>
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The blessed Eid Al-Adha or Festival of Sacrifice is here.<br />
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Just like its sacrificial ceremony,<br />
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As you celebrate the blessed Festival of Sacrifice,</span><br />
May you be surrounded by all your friends and loved ones.<br />
<span style="font-family: "";">May you are bestowed the best of lucks.</span><br />
May you have a happy heart,<br />
and may you enjoy the best of health.<br />
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<b>عيد فرخنده و در عيد به رسم قربان</b><br />
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<b>سر بريده عدويت همچو شتر زار و نزار </b><br />
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<b>دوستان جمع و نديمان خوش و دولت باقي</b><br />
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<b>سر تو سبز و دلت شاد و تنت بيآزار</b><br />
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Open your eyes and see<br />
How I'm so happily taking my soul towards my Beloved.<br />
To celebrate the blessed Eid Al-Adha or Festival of Sacrifice,<br />
I'm also taking my humble soul to be sacrificed.<br />
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</b> <b>چشم بگشا جان نگر کش سوی جانان می برم</b><br />
<b>پیش آن عید ازل جان بهر قربان می برم</b><br />
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You (God) are the Soul of this Festival of Sacrifice<br />
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all Your lovers get sacrificed by Your Presence.<br />
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Sacrifice me in Your Divine Kitchen<br />
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I'm ready to get scarified for Your Soul.<br />
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<b>تو عيد جان قرباني و پيشت عاشقان قربان</b><br />
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<b>بکش در مطبخ خويشم که قربانم به جان تو</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: , , serif;"> مولانا جلال الدین بلخی رومی</span></b><br />
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He (God) said with a smile:<br />
"Go and be grateful that it's Eid Al-Adha<br />
and you've been finally sacrificed for Me."<br />
I asked: "I've been sacrificed for whom?"<br />
"FOR ME! FOR ME! FOR MY SAKE,"<br />
The Beloved loudly responded!<br />
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</span> <b>گفت به خنده که برو شکر کن</b><br />
<b>عید مرا ای شده قربان من</b><br />
<b>گفتم قربان کیم یار گفت</b><br />
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O Most Beautiful Moon (God),<br />
May all the rams, calves and cows<br />
Of this whole world be sacrificed for You.<br />
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Because all the sacrificed ones<br />
Become immortal by Your Eternal Grace<br />
During Your Eid Al-Adha or Festival of Sacrifice.<br />
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</span> <b>گاو و بزغاله و بره گردون چرخ</b><br />
<b>باد ای ماه بتان قربان تو</b><br />
<b>ز آنک قربانها همه باقی شوند</b><br />
<b>در هوای عید بیپایان تو</b><br />
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Everyone else celebrates two Eids per year.<span style="color: red;">*</span><br />
For us, Sufi soul-seekers though,<br />
Every instant brings a couple of new Eids!<br />
<span style="font-family: , "" , serif;">~Rumi~ my translation~</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: red;">*</span> By 'Two Eids', Rumi is referring to Eid Al-Fitr of Festival of Breaking the Fast at the end of fasting month of Ramadan, and Eid Al-Adha or Festival of Sacrifice at the end of Hajj-Pilgrimage commemorating Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his own son (Ishmael or Isaac) at God's Command.<br />
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</b> <b>سالی دو عید کردن کار عوام باشد</b><br />
<b>ما صوفیان جان را هر دم دو عید باید</b><br />
<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: , , serif;"> مولانا جلال الدین بلخی رومی</span></b><br />
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You (God) has given us both the Sacred Day of Arafa<span style="color: red;">*</span><br />
and Eid Al-Adha of Festival of Sacrifice.<br />
I am a Hajj-Pilgrim shouting cries of devotion<span style="color: red;">*</span><span style="color: red;">*</span><br />
During Dhu al-Ḥijjah or the Sacred Month of Pilgrimage<span style="color: red;">*</span><span style="color: red;">*</span><span style="color: red;">*</span><br />
But I can neither reach You nor fully know You yet.<br />
<span style="font-family: , "" , serif;">~Rumi~ my translation~</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: red;">*</span> By Day of Arafa, Rumi is referring to second and holiest day of Hajj-Pilgrimage to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia when Pilgrims stand on the plains of Mount Arafat to fast and pray, commemorating prophet Muhammad's Final Sermon. The very next day after 'Day of Arafa', Eid Al-Adha or Festival of Sacrifice begins.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">*</span><span style="color: red;">* </span>By<span style="color: red;"> </span>"Shouting Cries of Devotion", Rumi is referring to Hajj-Pilgrims' devotional chants of "Labaik Allahum Labaik/I am responding O Lord, I am responding to Your Call.", as they make their way towards Mount Arafat - near the holy city of Mecca - to offer prayers and also engage in remembrance.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">*</span><span style="color: red;">*</span><span style="color: red;">*</span> By Dhu al-Ḥijjah, Rumi is referring to the Sacred Month of Pilgrimage in Islamic Calendar when Muslims embark on Hajj-Pilgrimage to Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.<br />
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</b><b>چون عرفه و عید تویی غره ذی الحجه منم</b><br />
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Rumi's following mystical poem is one of my all time favorites. This deeply meaningful poem clearly manifests Rumi's profound mystical Sufi argument that a believer's "Inner" reality always outweighs the "Outer" practices and rituals of his/her faith. Through these highly mystical and meaningful verses, Rumi is effectively teaching us that while it's a noble Islamic cause and a Muslim's lifelong obligation to embark on the Hajj Pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, our genuine pilgrimage must first start by not only helping our next-door neighbors and loved ones under our own roofs , but also by embarking on the Sufi mystical pilgrimage deep within own self in search of our hidden inner realities.<br />
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Hajj Pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the 'Five Pillars' of the Islamic faith, and also a once-in-a-lifetime obligation for any Muslim who has the physical and financial ability to undertake the journey. Rumi is simply at his best in this short poem. I hope my translation can capture Maulana's intended Sufi mystical messages and teachings. By Kaaba (House of Allah/God), Rumi is referring to the Cube-shaped structure in Mecca, Saudi Arabia where Muslim make their annual Hajj-Pilgrimage after which Eid al-Adha or Festival of Sacrifice is celebrated (see above image).<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">O People Gone On Hajj Pilgrimage, Where Are You?</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">By Rumi (Ghazal/Ode # 648 from Divan-e Shams)</span><br />
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O people gone on Hajj Pilgrimage<br />
Where are you? Where are you?<br />
The Beloved is right here<br />
Come on back! Come on back!<br />
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Your Beloved is your next-door neighbor -<br />
Wall-to-Walls -<br />
Why are you wandering in the Arabian deserts?<br />
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If you take a good look at Beloved's Faceless Face,<br />
You 'll get to see clearly that<br />
The Master, the Holy House, and the Kaaba<br />
Are all in reality You!<br />
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You've already journeyed like ten times<br />
On the path of Hajj-Pilgrimage<br />
To visit that Holy House.<br />
For once in your life,<br />
Also climb up to the roof of your own house.<br />
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That Holy House is indeed magnificent<br />
You've already talked about its many wonders.<br />
But from the Master of that House,<br />
Did you even get its correct address?<br />
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Where is your flower bouquet<br />
If you've seen that Divine Garden?<br />
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Where is your soul's pearly essence<br />
If you now belong to the Ocean of God?<br />
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Well, despite of it all,<br />
May all your sufferings turn into your treasures.<br />
Alas, you're always veiling your own treasures.<br />
~Rumi~ my translation~<br />
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</b> <b><span style="color: #660000;">غزل شماره ۶۴۸ مولانا جلال الدین بلخی رومی از دیوان شمس تبریزی یا دیوان کبیر</span></b><br />
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</b> <b>ای قوم به حج رفته کجایید کجایید</b><br />
<b>معشوق همین جاست بیایید بیایید</b><br />
<b>معشوق تو همسایه و دیوار به دیوار</b><br />
<b>در بادیه سرگشته شما در چه هوایید</b><br />
<b>گر صورت بیصورت معشوق ببینید</b><br />
<b>هم خواجه و هم خانه و هم کعبه شمایید</b><br />
<b>ده بار از آن راه بدان خانه برفتید</b><br />
<b>یک بار از این خانه بر این بام برآیید</b><br />
<b>آن خانه لطیفست نشانهاش بگفتید</b><br />
<b>از خواجه آن خانه نشانی بنمایید</b><br />
<b>یک دسته گل کو اگر آن باغ بدیدیت</b><br />
<b>یک گوهر جان کو اگر از بحر خدایید</b><br />
<b>با این همه آن رنج شما گنج شما باد</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tomorrow, Friday, April 22, 2016 marks the beginning of Jewish Holiday of Passover (Pesach) - The Jewish Holiday of the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt to freedom in the Promised Land. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'd like to wish all the Jews throughout the world a very happy and blessed Passover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If the Almighty doesn't start raining down </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His Grace upon me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I shall also elevate my supplications</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the way t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o the Firmament,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just like how the Jews would pray</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During their Feast of Freedom or The Passover.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sa'di Shirazi </b></span><b style="color: #990000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(1210-1291)</b><b style="color: #990000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </b><b style="color: #990000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">~ the e</b><b style="color: #990000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">minent 13th century Persian Sufi poet ~ </b><b style="color: #990000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">My Translation ~.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">گر نبارد فضل باران عنایت بر سرم</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">لابه بر گردون رسانم چون یهودان در فطیر</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #990000;">سعدي شيرازي</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This coming Sunday, March 27, 2016 marks the Christian Holiday of Easter or the Resurrection of Jesus Christ . I'd like to wish all the Christians throughout the world a very happy and blessed Easter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus never lost his faith in Lord on the cross</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even when he saw his holy virgin mother, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary immaculate crying her heart out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Light which struck and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">crucified </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus on the cross, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was already deposited </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">into the immaculate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">heart of Mary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't try finding Jesus' miracles or healing hands,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">while ignoring his teachings here on Earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once Christ was risen up high into the Heaven,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">his miracles touched only those </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">who truly reached out to him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Muslims don't, but Christians do believe</span><br />
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That Jesus was indeed crucified on the cross.<br />
Today, don't look for any healing by Jesus<br />
For Christ is still roaming the Earth.<br />
When Jesus ascended into the Heaven <br />
His healing miracles also died for us.<br />
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Where is our sweet-breathed Jesus<br />
Who no longer needs the motherly interventions of<br />
His immaculate virgin mother, Mary?<br />
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Where is our sweet-breathed Jesus<br />
To tear to pieces the veil which has darkened<br />
The hearts of so many Christians these days?</span><br />
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The biggest fire of sorrows and despairs,<br />
Don't be afraid of the those fake flames;<br />
Jesus will finally draw his sword<br />
To punish the wrongdoer Antichrist.<span style="color: #660000;">*</span><br />
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Jesus is the good health to an aging body.<br />
Jesus is the promise of hereafter to an immortal soul.<br />
Keep on waiting for the sign of Jesus in his Second Coming.<br />
Believe in Christ's ultimate return on the Judgment Day.<br /><span style="color: #660000;"><i>
Rumi - my translation</i></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">*</span>Pondering deeper over this line 'Jesus will finally draw his sword to punish the wrongdoer Antichrist' from my above translation, we can clearly grasp Rumi's in-depth theological knowledge and understanding of the Holy Bible, particularly Passages from the New Testament. Rumi's mentioning of "Jesus will finally draw sword" is in reference to the following Biblical Teachings: Jesus was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane and saw the traitor Judas arriving with Roman soldiers to arrest him. Christ's devoted disciples drew their swords to defend him, but Jesus immediately stopped them, teaching them and the humanity that violence is unacceptable for those who truly follow Jesus Christ and his peaceful teachings; "Jesus said to them 'Put your sword back in its place, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.'"</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><i> New Testament - Matthew 26:52.</i></span></span><i> </i></span></span><br />
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مولانا دربزرگداشت عيسي مسيح </span><br /><br /><b>
آن گمان ترسا برد مــؤمن نــدارد آن گمــان</b><br /><b>
كــو مسيح خــويشتن را بــر چليپا مي كشد</b><br /><b>
اکنون مکن دوا که مسیح تو برزمینست</b><br /><b>
چون شد مسیح بسوی فلک فوت شد دوا</b><br /><b>
کو آن مسیح خوش دمی بیواسطه مریم یمی</b><br /><b>
کز وی دل ترسا همی پاره کند زنار را</b><br /><b>
دجال غم چون آتشی گسترد ز آتش مفرشی</b><br /><b>
کو عیسی خنجرکشی دجال بدکردار را</b><br /><b>
تن را سلامتها ز تو جان را قیامت ها ز تو</b><br /><b>
عیسی علامت ها ز تو وصل قیامت وار را</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>From Rumi's Masnavi - Book # 3 - Story of the sick and needy ones who showed up every early dawn at the door of Christ’s House hoping to get healed and cured by Holy Jesus. </i></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The House of Jesus always has a table spread</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-weight: normal;">for the people of the heart.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-weight: normal;">O the sick and needy ones of this world,</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-weight: normal;">haste, haste,</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-weight: normal;">go and wait by the door of Christ's </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">House</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-weight: normal;">From every corner,</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the poor, the maimed, the deaf and the blind</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-weight: normal;">would all gather in the early hours of dawn,</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and patiently wait at the door of House of Jesus</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-weight: normal;">hoping to be healed by the Breath of Christ.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">in solitude and silence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Holy Jesus would come out around noon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">to witness a large multitude of sick and needy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">waiting to be cured and healed by him.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Jesus would then address the crowd:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"O my Lord's afflicted ones,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">by the infinite kindness and grace of Almighty,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">your prayers and wishes had just been answered.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Get up and walk without any pain and suffering,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">GET UP!"</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">By the sheer power of miracles and prayers of Christ,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">they all quickly got up -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">like a bunch of freed camels whose legs had been</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">tied up in chains for so long -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">and rushed back happily towards their loved ones</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">completely healed and cured.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">That's how Jesus performed his miracles...</span><br />
<i style="color: #660000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">~Rumi ~ my translation</i><br />
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</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial";">مثنوی معنوی - دفتر سوم - مولانا</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial";">جمع آمدن اهل آفت هر صباحی بر در صومعهٔ عیسی علیه السلام جهت طلب شفا به دعای او</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">هان و هان ای مبتلا این در مهل</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">جمع گشتندی ز هر اطراف خلق</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">از ضریر و لنگ و شل و اهل دلق</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">بر در آن صومعهٔ عیسی صباح</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">تا بدم اوشان رهاند از جناح</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">او چو فارغ گشتی از اوراد خویش</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">چاشتگه بیرون شدی آن خوبکیش</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">جوق جوقی مبتلا دیدی نزار</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">شسته بر در در امید و انتظار</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">گفتی ای اصحاب آفت از خدا</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">حاجت این جملگانتان شد روا</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">هین روان گردید بی رنج و عنا</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">سوی غفاری و اکرام خدا</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">جملگان چون اشتران بستهپای</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">که گشایی زانوی ایشان برای</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">خوش دوان و شادمانه سوی خان</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";">از دعای او شدندی پا دوان</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The son of Mary, Jesus,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as though a wild animal </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">were chasing him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Someone following him asks,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Where are you going?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No one is after you.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus keeps on, saying nothing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">across two more fields.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Are you the one who says</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">words over a dead person,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so that he wakes up?’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I am."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Did you not make the clay birds fly?'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Yes."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Who then could possibly cause you to run like this?'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus slows his pace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I say the Great Name over the deaf and the blind,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">they are healed. Over a stony mountainside,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and it tears its mantle down to the navel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over non-existence, it comes into existence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But when I speak lovingly for hours, for days,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with those who take human warmth </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and mock it, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when I say the Name to them, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nothing happens. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They remain rock, or turn to sand,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">where no plants can grow. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other diseases are ways </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for mercy to enter, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but this non-responding</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">breeds violence and coldness toward God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am fleeing from that."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As little by little air steals water, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so praise is dried up and evaporates with</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">foolish people who refuse to change. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like cold stone you sit on, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a cynic steals body heat. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He doesn't feel the sun.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus wasn't running from actual people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was teaching in a new way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The way of Jesus was wrestling with solitude </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and not gratifying lust. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The way of Muhammad was to endure the oppression</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and agonies inflicted by men and women upon each other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you cannot go by the way of Muhammad, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at least go by the way of Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so you won't remain completely outside the spiritual path.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do not hesitate asking Jesus </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to also perform miracles in my life.</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I am fully versed in the knowledge of his religion.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus, son of Mary, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is a spiritual form of Divine Compassion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From the water of Virgin Mary or </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the breath of Archangel Gabriel,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus, the Spirit and the Word, came to be </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in an essence purified of nature.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God has said, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Jesus is a sign for mankind and a mercy from Me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And We made the son of Mary and his mother a sign."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is the Seal of the Saints.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is the possessor of the highest Divine Knowledge. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is the example of Service and Sacrifice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is the Man of Sorrows.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is the Prince of Peace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is the embodiment of Perfect Man.</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Jesus is the Model Sufi; ascetic and pious.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is the example of detachment from the material world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is the symbol of engendering.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is the Light and Fragrance of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is indeed the Word of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is indeed the Spirit of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is indeed alive and living in the fourth heaven.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is indeed the promised Messiah.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus raised up the dead and made birds from clay. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus healed the deaf and mute.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus healed the lame and the blind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God purified Jesus in body and exalted him in spirit. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God made of him a symbol of love and purity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first words of Jesus in the cradle were, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Truly I am the Servant of God.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Had there not been a meddler in the midst, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus would have revealed the "Mystery"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">line by line.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He would have closed the road of the mouth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and opened the secret way. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus would have escaped </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by one cup of d</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ivine wine </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the frenzy of speech.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Jesus is the Word of God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The difference lies in the form of the doctrine, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not in the real nature of the Way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People neither have any perception of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unicolority of Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nor they are dyed in the Tub of Jesus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which would make a hundred colors </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as simple and one-colored as the Light.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O people who have faith in Christ, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This epoch is the epoch of Jesus. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Embrace Christ's faith and his miraculous life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with all your heart and with all your soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Jesus' sake, go and yield your life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Confess myriads of your obligations to Christ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't let grief coming over you, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when you witness that Christ's faith </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">perishes among those who're ignorant of it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks be to God and to Jesus </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that I've become acquainted with his faith.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I see that the desire of Christ's faith</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is purification of Self, and the liberty</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from bondage of this material world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also see the desire for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a sanctuary of the soul,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a blessed portal of unity, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and a nest of the Eternal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God's Spirit, Jesus who proceeds </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the blessed Holy Spirit,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">taught this doctrine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In you is placed a soul</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which is a mirror of Jesus' blessed Spirit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Find release from humanity's carnal desire</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and you will enter the Divine Kingdom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyone who's pure and sinless like Jesus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Will be carried up to the fourth heaven.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You should be as Jesus, son of Mary,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on the way of sincerity,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to grasp the value and verity </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the chapters </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and verses of the Gospel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If for only a moment you free yourself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from this prison </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">called </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the material world,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you will be like Jesus, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">unique in detachment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Jesus has said, "You must be in the world, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>but not of the world;</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>be of the oppressed and not of the oppressors; </b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>receive abuse and return it not; </b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>let the motive of all your actions </b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be the love of God, </b><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>and rejoice in suffering."</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus has given me a message:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be in seclusion and to live in silence. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wish to be dead so I may sit with Jesus </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at the top of the fourth heaven.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since God has bestowed upon you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a spiritual connection with Himself,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">stroke my head with your healing hand,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Messiah!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the Sufis, there is the practice of tasawuri: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The perception of Sufi Master being always present,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">though he might be long gone. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If a Sufi's perception is on Jesus-the ever-present Master- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">then the Sufi begins to walk and breathe like Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and draws in deep from the divine qualities</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that were clearly manifested in Master Jesus. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then the Sufi becomes Christ-like, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not in a poetic sense, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not in an oratorical sense, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but in actual reality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then the perception becomes reality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Certainly it is right to say that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God honored Jesus and drew him close, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so that whoever serves Jesus has served the Lord, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">whoever obeys Jesus has obeyed the Lord,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and whoever loves Jesus has loved the Lord.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The faithful companions of Jesus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">saw what Christ had told and seen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with the eye of the heart and the light of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">certainty and sincerity of faith.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They sought the other world, abstaining</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the pride and allurements of this world,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and thus being saved from the slavery of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this material world and its lusts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They put on patched garments and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">traveled with Jesus from place to place.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Love God, your Lord with all your heart and with all your soul, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what is the difference between these two loves?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus said, "You love your neighbor for yourself, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christ the promised Messiah, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Walked on water as well as land.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus the Spirit of God, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Danced on the sea l</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ike a carefree waterbird.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This miracle occurred as a result of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus' strong faith in God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Indeed, Jesus is the Miracle of God</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus indeed walked on the water.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Walk with Jesus as he once said,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Walk on the water of life in my company, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and you will be safe from drowning."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the sheer power of his life-giving breath and prayers, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus brought the already dead and buried Lazarus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lazarus was revived by the Breath of Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but he died again as mortal ones would die. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some question why Lazarus had to die again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">if he was delivered from death by Jesus?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is why: No one is resurrected into immortality,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">except Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Antichrist has taken over the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and plunged it into darkness and tyranny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But Christ, the promised Messiah,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">shall come down from the fourth heaven</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to defeat the wrongdoer Antichrist and his armies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This world belongs to Christ, from end to end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is no room here for Antichrist's deceptive tricks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look at Jesus, son of Mary,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">standing tall in the midst of the battlefield</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with his sharp sword drawn for the Final Battle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to slay the Antichrist and defeat his wicked armies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Open the way for Christ, the promised Messiah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keep on blowing the Resurrection Trumpet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the Judgment Day is quickly approaching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those who truly love Christ, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">give up the donkey to buy Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those who don't love Christ, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">give up Jesus to buy his donkey.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have to be a real dumbass </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to give up Jesus and buy the ass!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus sits before you, but out of sheer stupidity,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you decide to serve his donkey's hooves!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You took the snack which was to serve Jesus-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to the stable and put it in front of his donkey!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O simple man, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How could Jesus eat from the same meal </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as his donkey?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How could Jesus go up to heaven </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on back of a donkey?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How could a lover be joined to sensuality?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even if you take Jesus' donkey to Mecca,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it will still be a donkey when it returns!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When you enter the quarter of Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you don't ask, “Where is your donkey?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do You?!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You've abandoned Jesus and nurtured his donkey.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That is why, like a donkey, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you must remain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">outside the curtain!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't buy donkey grain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with the Gospel of Jesus! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't buy the world's sympathy </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by faking you are a man of faith.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your Jesus is dying of weakness, alas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are occupied solely in feeding his donkey!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have been working yourself to death </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by taking </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">loads of hay and straw to Christ's donkey.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You've served his donkey enough;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You carried its grasses and straw.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You cleaned its hooves and washed it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, it's time for you to also serve</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Jesus! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Love and piety are the good fortunes of Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not of the ass, O asinine man!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The death of Jesus' donkey was difficult to watch, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but in my case, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it was sheer good luck. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because now that his donkey is gone, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is standing right beside me!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus, son of Mary went to heaven,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and his donkey remained below.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Jesus was freed from his donkey,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">his prayers were answered.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus turns the drunkard into gold, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and if he be gold, makes him into a jewel; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">if a jewel, Jesus makes him better still, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">better than the moon and Jupiter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are not a Jupiter without worth, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but the Light of God has purchased: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you have anything of Joseph, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you take the scent of this shirt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus was once asked, "O Spirit of God,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">why do you not get yourself a donkey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to ride upon for your needs?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus answered, "I am more honorable in my </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lord's Sight than that He should provide me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with something which may distract me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from Him."</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Follow the shining examples of Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so you can enjoy the abundant divine meal </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">being lavishly laid out on your table. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Follow the shining examples of Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so you can enjoy the cherished company of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the soul of all souls and the king of both worlds. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Jesus who are ascended </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">high up there </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">into the heavenly spheres, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">take a good look down here upon us, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and pull us high up there alongside with you.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus on the lean donkey,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this is an emblem of how the rational intellect</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">should control the animal-soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let your spirit be strong like Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If that part becomes weak,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">then the worn-our donkey grows to a dragon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be grateful when what seems unkind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">comes from a wise person.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Everything you touch will reach its goal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and fly with the wings of an angel. . . .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But wings cannot carry you to God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like the donkey that carried Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only love can carry you to triumphal entry.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Without the donkey, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus could not ride to Jerusalem, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which is to say that without the body, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the spirit cannot reach its true beloved.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Too often, we put saddlebags on Jesus </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and let the donkey run loose in the pasture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't make the body do </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what the spirit does best, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and don't put a big load on the spirit </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that the body could carry easily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are thousands of wines</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that can take over our minds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't think all ecstasies </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are the same!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus was lost in his love for God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His donkey was drunk with barley.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am not like his donkey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">who's drunk with barely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O friends, Jesus gives me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The red wine of monks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Son, once you find what's inside,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you don't look at the shell.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wherever Jesus stands,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you don't look at his donkey.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do You?!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be silent like Mary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let the one who has the Breath of Jesus talk.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who told you to be a friend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of Jesus' donkey between your jobs?! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O eye, don't look at the people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O ear, don't hear good or bad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O mind, don't act like his donkey,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are going to finally see Jesus!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your are the Jesus of time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Journey without food to the wilderness. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Walk on water like Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't sleep in the mud like his lazy donkey!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus doesn't like people </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who talk a lot, make lots of noise, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">who fight a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nd create unnecessary hardships for others.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus doesn't eat halva-sweets in their houses,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">because that is the barn for his donkey!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nowadays, i</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">f you are looking for a donkey,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'd say, go ahead! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lots of donkeys are roaming around out there!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't search for Jesus though. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No Jesus can be found among the ignorant.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus was separated from his donkey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">w</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ith a hallowed heart. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the heart of Jesus is not filled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With layer upon layer of dirt like a pouch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The heart of Jesus is sacred and pure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just like the immortal soul of Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">our immortal souls shall also be risen to Heaven.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't worry if the lean donkey of Jesus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is left behind in this world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Jesus, reason was strong;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">his donkey was made lean by a strong rider.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus didn't withhold candy from his donkey,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but the ass was naturally pleased with straw.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If candy had aroused delight in the ass,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus would have poured out a hundred pounds for it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your lower-self (ego) is just like Jesus' donkey:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It can't stop thinking of how to get its fodder.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But if you have a guide like Jesus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and he has made you heartsick,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">don't forget that your health, too, is from him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't run away from Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How do you deal with affliction,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O you who have the healing Breath of Jesus inside?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have pity on Jesus, not on the donkey!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't let your animal nature rule over your intellect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For in this world, there is always a snake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">guarding the treasure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where is our sweet-breathed Jesus </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">who no longer needs the motherly interventions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of his holy virgin mother, the immaculate Mary?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where is our sweet-breathed Jesus </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to tear into pieces </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the dark veil which has covered </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the hearts of so many so-called Christians these days?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even if the Antichrist manages to ignite </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the biggest fire of sorrows and despairs in the World, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">don't be afraid of those fake fires. Don't be afraid!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus shall come back again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus shall draw his sharp sword </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to defeat the wrongdoer Antichrist and his wicked armies</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is indeed the Prince of Peace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus was ascended into the Heavens </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and in his honor, even the immortal Angels </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">made peace with the mortal humans. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O people of faith quarreling over doctrinal </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">differences,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the blessings of the life-giving Breath of Jesus </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">will be also </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bestowed upon you, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you decide to reconcile with each other. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The miracle of Jesus is himself, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not what he said or did about the future. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every one of us is a living Christ for the nations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just like the healing hands of Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">every pain and sufferings in this world</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">can be also healed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by a touch of our healing hands.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The immaculate heart of virgin Mary</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was not ready to carry the light of Christ,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">until the Holy Spirit got invisibly deposited </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">into the womb of Mary mother of Jesus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">through the breath of Archangel Gabriel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Virgin Mary, whose soul was shredded into pieces</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by the anxieties over her immaculate conception,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">became pregnant with the charming Christ</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">through Holy Spirit breathed by Archangel Gabriel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary was always silent and never spoke about </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">herself,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but she was a truly eloquent speaker </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">whenever she </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">spoke about her dear son, Jesus Christ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Christ who doesn't belong to Earth or Sea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Christ who transcends the boundaries of both Worlds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our Mother Earth shall also get divinely impregnated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">like the holy virgin mother of Jesus, Mary immaculate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus made his appearance via Mary, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but as a matter of fact, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that Divine Light which had illuminated Mary </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">also drew Jesus back up high into the Heaven. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was reconciliation between </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the Angels and the human beings,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the Messiah was raised to the spiritual realm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The speech of Jesus is derived </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the spiritual beauty of Mary </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which itself is a reflection of the Divine Breath.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mary is the embodiment of purity, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>and Jesus, the embodiment of love. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the son of Mary, Jesus is human; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but as one who could revive the dead, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus was of God as Spirit.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus appeared from Gabriel's breath, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but how could he be similar or comparable to him in form?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Man is from clay, but does he resemble clay? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No grape looks like the vine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the cradle, Jesus raises a cry: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Without having become a youth,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am already a master and an old man!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you see an ugly face, that is you; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and if you see the beautiful faces of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus and Mary, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that is also you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the fire of the Divine Love, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Behold I saw a whole universe. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each particle there possessed </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The healing Breath of Jesus. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was Divine Love that breathed the glow of life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Which made the immaculate Mary pregnant with Jesus. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was Divine Love that produced the Holy Spirit </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Which made </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary deliver the miracle of Christ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sore distress is the evidence of worthiness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To receive the Divine Bounty. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was Mary's want and pain that made </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Baby Jesus to begin speaking in the cradle.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whatever comes, comes from a need,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a sore distress, a hurting want.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary's pain made the baby Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her womb opened its lips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and spoke the Word.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />We are like that story of Mary. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every one of us has a Jesus within, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but unless we experience the pain of birthing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">our Jesus is not born.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If there is no pain,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">our Jesus return by that hidden way</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to the original place from which</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he came, and we will be left deprived.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The healing Breath of Jesus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is the gift of a new life to a dead body,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the promise of Hereafter to an immortal soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The healing Breath of Jesus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is the surest sign of of his second coming, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and Christ's ultimate return before the Judgment Day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By nature, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">every spirit has the life-giving Breath of Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but one breath wounds, while another heals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If spirits were freed from the body’s veils,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">everyone’s words could be like the Messiah’s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sweetness from the Breath of Jesus </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is like a new life to an already dead person. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From Jesus Christ's sweet taste of life,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even the angels of death are left</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with their mouths wide open!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Breath of Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which hourly brings forth another dawn, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">causes a sleeping world </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to raise its head </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look at Jesus, son of Mary,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and how he gives life to the dead,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">like water from the fountain of life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To me, as to Mary, dates come forth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from a withered branch without cause; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to me, like Jesus, Master-ship comes unasked</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the cradle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The life-bestowing Breath of Jesus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is the equivalent of a kiss.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If someone asks you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"How did Jesus bring the dead back to life?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't say a word.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just kiss her softly on the cheek.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like this!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If I kiss you once,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will become the Holy Spirit, like Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If I smell your apple,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will give my soul, like Moses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus’s Breath made water mixed with clay.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grow wings, become a bird and fly away!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your praise is now hot air, but will appear </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A bird of heaven if your heart’s sincere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moses’s light made Sinai dance and spin,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Becoming thus a dervish, free of sin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mountains can change to dervishes each day,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moses’s body used to be mere clay!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May that Breath of Jesus serve as your cure </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And make you like itself so blessed and pure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t claim in Spring on stone some verdure grows,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be soft like soil to raise a lovely rose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Antichrist of grief is raising hell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With separation in my head.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I need Jesus, the Commander of Lover's Army,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To come and defeat the Antichrist and his army.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I should ask for the Breath of Jesus to get well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The meaning of dying is need. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Make yourself dead in need and poverty,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So that Jesus' Breath may bring you back to life,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And make it like itself: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beautiful and auspicious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’ve seen a world without a trace of death,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All atoms here have Jesus’s pure breath,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A world that’s dead in form, but lives in essence,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While that world lives in form, the realm of transience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus, by his Breath, made the dead to be living.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am in the hand of the Creator of Jesus though.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How should I remain dead in the grasp of God? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Likewise, do not hold this to be impossible </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the hand of Jesus who once said,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I am Jesus son of Mary, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyone who's been revived by my life-giving breath </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">will remain unto everlasting."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The dead man was made living by Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but he died again. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lucky is the one who gives up life for Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O early dawn, source of awareness,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you have such a fresh breath.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blow the Breath of Jesus upon those</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">whose hearts are already dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Lovers of Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">die in self-abasement and spiritual poverty, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So that the Breath of Jesus may revive you, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and make you richly blessed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Religious raptures depend on feelings and will,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but the true Lovers of Jesus are transported</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">into the rapture and ecstasy</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by the life-giving Breath of Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christ is the kindest and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">most caring Doctor of Love.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But how can Jesus possibly heal you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you keep hiding your pain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and sufferings </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from him?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The physician of the soul </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">brought a tray as a present and said, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"If you are a doting old man </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you will become fair and youthful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It gives life to the body, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">intoxication to the soul;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it takes away from the heart’s slackness, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the cheeks’ pallor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That was the Tray of Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it became the inheritance of the physicians; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you will find in it the antidote, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">if you have swallowed the poison of death.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You who seek that Tray of Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">pay good attention to Christ's teachings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and shining examples.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where Jesus lives, the great-hearted gather.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christ has a door that's never locked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are suffering any kind of pain,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">stay near his door. Open it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I called through your door,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'The Sufi Mystics are gathering</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the street. Come on out!'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Leave me alone. I'm sick."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'I don't care if you're dead!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is here, and he wants</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to resurrect somebody!'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why should I suffer from heartache?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus, the Physician of Souls, is with me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why should I be afraid of the dogs? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christ, the Master of the Hunt, is with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus used to fast all the time, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">never breaking the fast, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and stayed up during the night, never sleeping.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus not only spent the nights awake, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but he also spent them in devotions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus was manifest in the world </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with the divine name, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Time' during the day, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and with the divine name, 'Self-Subsisting', or </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'He who is neither overcome by sleep nor slumber', </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christ said, "That's me, Jesus with a beautiful smile.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This world shall be visited by me once again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm now living in my Lord's heavenly realms,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I no longer needs the motherly care of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My holy virgin mother, Mary immaculate."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus said, "There are four qualities which are </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not found in one person without causing wonder:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Silence which is the beginning of worship.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sincere humility before God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An ascetic attitude </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">towards this material world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Living in poverty which is to live in abundance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus was asked, "O Word of God,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is the most difficult thing in this world and the next?” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus said, “The Wrath of God.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They asked again, “And what can save us from that?” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus answered, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Master your own wrath and suppress your own rage."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus said to his disciples:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"A sinner who honestly repents before God,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is a better believer than a pious man </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">who makes a display of devotion."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus sat humbly on the back of a donkey, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my child. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How could a zephyr ride a donkey? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why did Jesus ride on a donkey? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Jesus, the sovereign of sovereigns, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not a donkey’s back but riding horses was worthy of him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Child, Jesus sat on a donkey for humility’s sake.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was showing us how to be humble. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The humility of Jesus was such </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that he had commanded his community</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to completely humble themselves:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That if they were struck on one cheek,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">they should also turn the other,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and not hit back or seek retribution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christ passed by a group of Pharisees who insulted him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every time they spoke a word of evil,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christ answered with good.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simon the pure said to Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Will you answer them with good each time they speak evil?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christ said, "Each person spends of what he owns."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christ is the population of the world,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and every object as well. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is no room </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for hypocrisy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why use bitter soup for healing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when sweet water is everywhere?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spring is Christ,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Raising martyred plants from their shrouds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their mouths open in gratitude, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wanting to be kissed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This wind is the Holy Spirit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The trees are Mary.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus, son of Mary</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Was constantly travelling and preaching.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like an ever flowing stream filled with Water of Life, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus kept on bestowing new life to the dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While outward travelling lies in words and deeds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beyond the sky the inner journey leads.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While bodily senses only know things dry, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like Jesus, over water souls pass by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A table of food </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was once coming down from the sky </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to feed </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moses </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and his people, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when suddenly voices from the crowd </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">called out, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Where's the garlic?" </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and "We want lentils!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At once the bread and the dishes of grace-food disappeared.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Everyone had to keep digging</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with mattocks and cutting with long scythes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then Jesus interceded and sent more trays of food.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But again some insolent people showed no respect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They grabbed like it wouldn't be enough,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even though Jesus kept telling them, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"This food will last. It will always be here."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be suspicious and greedy when majesty arrives</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is the worst arrogance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The gates closed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus once interceded for a man,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A bounteous feast was sent down in God’s plan,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But then some greedy brats who lacked respect</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like beggars grabbed the most they could collect,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even though Jesus cried, "It’s infinite, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You greedy fools, you’ll not run out of it!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Regard this lust and faithless attitude</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before God’s feast as sheer ingratitude.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The universe came into being gradually </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">over six days. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God could have just commanded, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and sixty, and feels more complete. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God could have thrown full-blown prophets </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">flying through the cosmos in an instant.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus said one word, and a dead man sat up,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but creation usually unfolds, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">like calm breakers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Word came from the non-physical realm. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the Word lifted up the veil and showed himself, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then people realized </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That the Word was a manifestation of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If the Word comes from God’s Wisdom, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It accomplishes the spiritual processes of the Divine. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But if it comes from us human beings, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It causes quarrels and wars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Someone said to Jesus, “We will come to your house.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus replied, “Where is my house in this world, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and how could I have a house?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus was wandering in the desert </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when a great rainstorm broke. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He went to take shelter in the den of a jackal,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the corner of its cave, until the rain ceased. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A revelation came to him, saying, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Get out of the jackal’s den, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for the jackal’s little ones cannot rest on account of you.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus cried aloud, “O Lord, the jackal’s pups have a shelter, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but the son of Mary has no place to call home.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus laughed a lot, while John the Baptist wept a lot. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John said to Jesus, “You've become exceedingly carefree </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">against all the subtle deceits, that you laugh so much.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus replied, “You have become exceedingly </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">unmindful of the subtle, mysterious, wonderful graces</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and loving kindness of God, that you weep so much.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of God’s saints was present at this incident. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He asked God, “Which of these two has the higher station?” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God answered,“Jesus, for he thinks better of Me.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Indeed, Jesus was a laugher, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John the Baptist a frowner; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the former laughed out of trust, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the latter frowned from fear.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The pregnant mother of John the Baptist, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elizabeth excitedly confided to Virgin Mary</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the most incredible experience of her pregnancy:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"O Mary, I believe without any slightest </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">doubt that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the child you're carrying inside your </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">womb </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is a King.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He is indeed the promised Messiah and Spirit of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Mary, when I was standing next to you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I felt that my still unborn child, John</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bowed down to your unborn child, Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John leaped for joy and bowed down </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with such passion,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that my whole body is still in pain and aches all over."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I know my dear Elizabeth,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I already know who he really is.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">deep inside my womb,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also felt your still unborn son, baby John,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">prostrating himself before my beautiful baby Jesus," </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When divine care arrives, struggling begins. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus, what a struggle he made! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet John the Baptist recognized that gift </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">while Jesus was still in Mary’s womb. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grace comes first. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then if, by accident, awareness enters in, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this is the fruit of God’s Grace-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the pure Gift of the Lord. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If this were not true, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">then how could Jesus’ disciples </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">have received such blessings?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus said, “I wonder at the living creature </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that can eat another living creature.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The literalists say that Jesus refers to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">people eating the flesh of animals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is an error. Why? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because when people eat flesh,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it is not animal any longer, but inanimate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once the animal is killed, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the living spirit is gone from that flesh. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The true meaning of this saying is:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The master always consumes the disciple! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I find Jesus' above saying so extraordinary.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus lays down one day with his head upon a stone.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Satan, passing by, said to him:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"O Jesus, you are so fond of this world!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So Jesus took the stone and cast it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from under his head, saying:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"This be yours, together with this material world!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus was followed by a stupid fool</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who came across some bones in a deep pit:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Teach me God’s Greatest Name, my friend,’ he said,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘With which you’re able to revive the dead,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I can do some good to these poor bones</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And grant them life though now they’re like mere stones.’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus said, ‘Shut your mouth! That’s out of reach: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s not designed for your lips or your speech.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It needs breath purer than the rain and light,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And action finer than an angel’s flight —</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It may take longer than a century </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To make you fit for heaven’s treasury.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you should grasp this rod now, understand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your hand is not like Moses’s pure hand.’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He said, ‘If I’m not fit for secrets now,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You should chant over these bones anyhow!’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus asked, ‘What’s the meaning of this, God? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is the point of a request so odd?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite his sickness, this fool feels no strife:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This corpse is not concerned for his own life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His own corpse this man chooses to neglect,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So that a stranger he might resurrect!’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God said, "Such fools are bad luck; all that grows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are thorns from what the ignorant man sows.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those who in this world sow seeds of this kind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inside the rose-garden you’ll never find.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A rose in their hands turns into a thorn, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And as vile snakes such men are soon reborn;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Poison and snakes they make with alchemy —</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As different from the pure souls as can be."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus said God’s Name over all the bones </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because of that young man’s persistent moans;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That immature man thus, by God’s decree,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saw bones come back to life incredibly,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But then a lion, not a man, appeared,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And knocked him down — for his own life he feared!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It broke his skull, which fell upon the ground —</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was an empty shell, no brain was found!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There would have been no harm if he had more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Than just a body, but there was no core.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus asked, ‘Lion, why leave him for dead?’ </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Because he bothered you,’ the lion said,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘But why not drink his blood once he’s been killed?’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Because that isn't what the Lord has willed.’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The lion said, ‘Messiah, killing then</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Was just a lesson for the sake of men.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If in this world I still had time ahead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wouldn't be right now among the dead.’</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once, Jesus entered a cave and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">discovered </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a man sleeping on the floor. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Get up,” Jesus said, “and get to work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Make a way for yourself. The world is passing you by."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"But I've done enough work to last two lifetime,"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the man replied. "I've established a place for myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the next life."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"What have you accomplished, then?" Jesus asked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"This world to me is a piece of straw. It's like a </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">crust of bread, or a bone that I might toss to the dogs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh, I've been free of this world a long time now,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and I look for nothing from God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why should I look for happiness in this life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have no attachment, and I'm free," man responded.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Jesus heard the man's reply, he said, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Sleep soundly, then. Go and do as you like.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since you are no longer bothered by the world,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it cannot hinder you. You have accomplished it all."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus saw a snake charmer crouching beside a hole,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">trying to coax the creature from its lair.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The charmer was incanting and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">using magic </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">potions and spells.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As Jesus passed by, the snake poked its head </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">out of the hole and said, "O Spirit of God, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">shining candle of all creatures, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a thirty year old man </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is trying to lure me from my lair,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">though I am </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a full three hundred years of age."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some time later, Jesus revisited the area and saw</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the snake charmer sitting in the market wit his basket.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"How is the spell-casting going?" Jesus asked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I managed to charm the snake into my basket," </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he answered.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus lifted the wicker lid and peered in. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sure enough, there was the snake, coiled up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus asked the snake, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"How could you have allowed yourself to be captured?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> After all, you knew what the charmer was up to."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"That's true," answered the snake. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Yet none of his charm worked on me. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No, it was the repetition of God's Name </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that mesmerized me. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was the Divine Name which charmed me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh, how I wish that a hundred souls like me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">could find joy in His Name." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A dog lay dead by the wayside,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With its jaws open wide.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A truly foul stench rose from that dog.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Jesus came to it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He told his companions: “This dog belongs to God;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look how white its teeth are!”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus perceived neither ugliness nor a foul stench,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But saw all the unpleasantness as pleasant in reality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Learn to see purely like this, if you’re a bondsman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And one who perceives realities.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See everything as having the same color and worth –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See the gem in its mouth, rather than the serpent!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Choose goodness, kindness to others,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Munificence and fidelity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you have knowledge of God, be His bondsman,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be a grateful recipient of bounty from Him;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Year in and year out you enjoy bounty from Him,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But neglect what is owed for it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus passed by three men. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their bodies were lean and their faces pale.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus asked them, "What has brought you to this plight?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They answered, "Fear of the Fire." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus said, "You fear a thing created, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and it behoves God </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that He should save those who fear."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then he left them and passed by three others, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">whose faces were paler and their bodies leaner, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and Jesus asked them, "What has brought you to this plight?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They answered, "Longing for Paradise."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus said, "You desire a thing created, and it behoves God that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He should give you that which you hope for." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then he went on and passed by three others </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of exceeding paleness and leanness, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so that their faces were as mirrors of light, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and Jesus asked them, "What has brought you to this?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They answered, "Our Love of God." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus said, "You are the nearest to Him, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you are the nearest to God."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus has issued this command to me:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To separate from friends and family,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To face the wall and sit here all alone,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Renouncing life, and that includes my own.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From now on I have no right to even speak </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let alone teach the wisdom that you seek,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m dead from now on, friends, so it’s goodbye,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m taking my belongings to the sky!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In order not to burn like wood in hell,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enduring blame and hardship there as well,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’ll sit with Jesus from now on up there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In heaven’s summit, like a perfect pair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When you have Jesus, eyes have little value;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t go astray — an inner eye he’ll give you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your spirit’s Jesus is within, so pure —</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seek help from it, then you can feel secure!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But don’t compel your Jesus-pure heart to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Perform the work your body’s meant to do,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like that fool whom we mentioned previously </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Regarding Jesus and his purity —</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t ask your Jesus for a body’s health.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t ask your Moses for vile Pharaoh’s wealth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How could the Red Sea remain a barrier</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the path before Moses?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How could Jacob not smell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that scent of Joseph from the shirt?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How could the blind remain blind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the protection of Jesus?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Moses was Moses, though still a shepherd. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Joseph was Joseph, though still in the well.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Jesus was Jesus, though still a poor carpenter.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moses had a a table spread in the wilderness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus had a table spread for his disciples.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To celebrate those sacred gatherings, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lord sent down a table spread with food from Heaven.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Spread Table h</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as come from heaven</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To those who fast. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was Jesus, son of Mary </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who has called it down w</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ith his prayers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Noah sails upon the flooding waters,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you will be his ark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the Prophet ascends to heaven,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you will be his ladder.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Jesus walks among the weary souls,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you will be his healing breath.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Moses goes forth as a shepherd,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Man is like the staff of Moses. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Man is like the incantation of Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the sake of justice and for the sake of decorum, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the true believer's heart is in the hand of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God, between His two fingers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The exterior form of Moses' staff is just a piece of wood, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but all created existence is one mouthful to it </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when it opens its throat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the incantation of Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">do not regard merely the letter and the sound,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">regard the fact that death turned and fled from it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the incantation of Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">do not regard the petty words, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">consider that </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the dead sprang up and sat down.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the case of staff of Moses, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">do not regard the easy getting of it,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">regard the fact that it cleft the Red Sea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and turned the Nile River blood-red.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have seen from afar the black canopy, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">take a step forward and behold Moses' army.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From afar you see nothing but the dust, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">advance a little and see Moses in the dust.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His dust makes eyes bright; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">his manliness uproots mountains.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Moses came up </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the remotest part of the desert, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at his advent Mount Sinai began to dance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mount heaven like Jesus; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">say, let me see like Moses, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for God will not say to you, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Silence, you shall not see Me.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because commonality is a wonderful attractor; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wherever there is a seeker, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a kindred spirit is his attractor. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus and Enoch went up to the Heavens</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">because they were kindred spirits </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with the Angels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are Jesus and the sweet Breath of Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are Jesus son of the blessed Mary immaculate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are the secret and keeper of those secrets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come, bestow upon us some miracles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are the young boy Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and I am your clay bird.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Breathe on me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let me fly out of sight.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tell me, since you are Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is the Kingdom of God?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Can you show us the Realm of Divinity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the earthly realm of humans?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am Archangel Gabriel, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are my Divine Calling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm the sick and needy soul of this world,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are my healer, Jesus son of Mary.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since You are Jesus son of Mary,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sit us at the same table as Mary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's eat from the same bowl.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's play the same song that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You've put into our hearts.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The wind like Gabriel, you a Mary</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Born to this pair: Jesus of silkrose cheeks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The dance of you two, key to the ever-life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Endless mercy on this dance!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The miracles that Jesus fashioned </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by speaking the Name Hu,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">come clearly to us </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">through the name of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">his holy virgin mother, Mary immaculate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the soul is in union with God,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to speak of God is to speak of the soul,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and to speak of the soul is to speak of Him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By God's Grace, the mortal body made of soil,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">becomes immortal and rests in the heavenly gardens.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The life-giving wind coming from God's Realm,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">brings the dead to life, making Jesus jealous!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sorrow for God's sake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is a treasure in my heart. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My heart is light upon light, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a beautiful Mary with Jesus in the womb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shams of Tabriz is Jesus </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">walking a mountain road. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am a slow, bewildered </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">trying to follow him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you want to a new Jesus born e</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">very moment, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Send a breeze f</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rom your rose garden </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To the garments of Mary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you want the land of existence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To change into the non-existence,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Set the fire that Moses, son of Imran, saw,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Into the harvest of your grief and mourning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you want to reach the spiritual realm,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You should talk to Jesus. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Otherwise, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t even try to climb up the holy sky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you want to go to heaven, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Become Jesus' loyal companion. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Otherwise, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do not aim for the celestial spheres.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beg for forgiveness like the castaway Adam, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in hope of being allowed back into the Paradise. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rise up high to Heaven like Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and let go of Christ's donkey.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O heart, take refuge in Christ. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Go and sleep like a drunkard </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the shadow of Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He's already gone to Heaven, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But both you and I</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are still crying for him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Myriads were the therapeutic art of the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eminent Greek doctor and philosopher, Galen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But before Jesus and his life-giving Breath,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were a laughing stock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When you leaves all the colors behind </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and enter the earthenware of Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God’s color shall appear. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From then onward, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God can do what He Wills.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Jesus, Love's Spirit, takes flight,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Never again will he lower his wing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To return to Man's worldly realm of labor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus would only come back to redeem the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is The Reason for the Season.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christmas is Christ's holy Season.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come, let's all take a moment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and pray in silence and solitude </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to Lord Almighty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like Jesus Christ, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">let's all pay our deepest respects</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to his holy virgin mother, Mary immaculate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like a treasure-keeper,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I tightly guard this pain deep inside my heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The light of my heart has become illuminated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by the divine light.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just like the immaculate Mary who's carrying </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the beautiful baby Jesus in her womb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Jesus, you have suffered for God’s sake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because no treasure is without its snake.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus, how are you coping with deniers?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How are you with those jealous liars?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For stupid men’s sake, you bear endless strife,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So selflessly you can replenish life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With those sick, useless ones how can you live?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Jesus who are so exalted,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you pass through the sky of love,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Turn your head; look down from the heaven,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And pull us high up there with you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Jesus, you are pulling the Soul</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Towards the star of the Pleiades.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are leading Saul high,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Highest to the most exalted God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like Moses, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are bringing water out of a rock.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are pulling Moses back to Mount Sinai.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Korah went down the well </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">like a bucket.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus ascended the dome of the sky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with the rope he threw to the heaven.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Korah who was the anchor of the earth,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was pulled and swallowed by earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sky pulled and exalted</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the greatest of the great, Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Buraq, the winged horse of love, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">arrives from heaven, it will deliver </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus, the Spirit of God, from this donkey,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">yes indeed!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Either fly to the heavens like Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or fall to the depths like Korah.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like Jesus, your image goes into the heart </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to bestow a new spirit like Divine Revelation, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it descends upon Moses at the mountain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Within the breast, you paint a form,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fatherless like Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Were Avicenna to try to understand it, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he would be an ass on ice!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus calls from the fourth heaven,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where communion is celebrated,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Welcome. Wash your hands and face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is time to sit at the table together."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Jesus found the ladder of God's Light, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he hastened to the top of the fourth dome. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since Jesus has gone to the fourth heaven, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what need has he for the Church?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am not tied to this house, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for like Jesus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have a house upon the fourth heaven.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From now on, let me sit with Jesus </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on top of the fourth heaven.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Set the table spread of angels</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at the heart assembly of drunkards.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Offer Jesus' heavenly meals</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to hearts already drunk for Christ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bring meal from the sky, like Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bring back to life three dead people</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With your warm breath, like Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Become poor to make poor beggars rich,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To watch a fire when Moses went one day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He managed to escape from hell this way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus jumped up to flee the enemy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That jump took him to heaven instantly!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Forbidden fruit trapped Adam, as decreed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His being turned then to Mankind’s first seed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and Jesus </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of unity and the next world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Joseph, come to poor Jacob</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He has gone blind out of grief and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Incessant crying for you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O young Joseph, come,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Poor Jacob has become very frail and old.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O hidden Jesus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Appear from the dome of the heaven</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come and breathe on us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bring us all spiritually dead people back to life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Moses, son of Amram,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have the entire Mount Sinai i</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n my heart for you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come down quickly from Mount Sinai,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They are again worshiping the golden calf as a god.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Joseph is back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And if you don't feel in yourself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The freshness of Joseph,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be Jacob.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Weep and then smile.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do not pretend to know something</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have not experienced.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a necessary dying,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then Jesus is breathing again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Very little grows on jagged rock.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be ground. Be crumbled.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So wild flowers will come up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where you are.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have been stony for too long.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ای قیل و ای قال تو خوش و ای جمله اشکال تو خوش</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ماه تو خوش سال تو خوش ای سال و مه چاکر تو را</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Happy new year to you all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My soul already smells </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fragrance of coming new year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May every single soul of this world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">have a very happy new year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Earth, O Moon, O Sky:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Happy new year to you </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you're wishing me a happy new year,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Happy new year to you, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to me, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and to all the Lovers out there!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who could possibly reward us with such a gift,</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;"><b style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 23.2639px;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 23.2639px;"> مولانا جلال الدين بلخي رومي</span></b></span></b></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">I saw the reflection of new year in your face,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 23.2639px;">a torrential </span><span style="line-height: 23.25px;">down-pouring</span><span style="line-height: 23.2639px;"> of tears hit me.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">I sat down and cried my heart out.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">May the rainfall of my tears</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">bring new joys into your life</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">in this upcoming new year.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">And I tearfully wish you:<br />A Happy New Year!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 23.25px;">Rumi - My Translation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">نوروز رخت دیدم خوش اشک بباریدم</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">نوروز و چنین باران باریده مبارك باد</span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #660000; line-height: 23.2639px;"><br /> مولانا جلال الدين بلخي رومي</span></b></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">The new year has come again</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">The new year has come again</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">My runaway lover has come again.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">The new year celebrations are in abundance.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">If there are abundant new year celebrations,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">then let's all party in total abundance!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">O musicians, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">try some heart-warming melodies,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 23.2639px;">why are you playing sad songs</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 23.2639px;">on </span><span style="line-height: 23.25px;">new year's eve</span><span style="line-height: 23.2639px;">?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">To celebrate the arrival of new year,<br />the Venus has already soared up high</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">to the Seventh Heaven.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">If that's where the Venus wants to roam</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 23.2639px;">on this </span><span style="line-height: 23.2639px;">new year's eve,</span></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">then let's all roam free wherever we want tonight!</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">The new year's moon is shining bright,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">the two worlds have become</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">one giant flower garden,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">and all bodies have become</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">one single soul. tonight</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">If we're all one supreme soul </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">on new year's eve,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">then let's all just become one</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">throughout this upcoming new year.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">Shams al-haq of Tabriz,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">You're so present in my thoughts right now,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">that Tabriz looks like Khorasan tonight.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">If that's how you like it to be,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">then let's keep it forever that way!</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">I've been drinking and celebrating the new year</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 23.25px;">all alone tonight without you by my side</span><span style="line-height: 23.2639px;">.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">If this party feels so cold and boring without you,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">then let it stay forever frozen tonight.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">Be silent, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">for I'm completely drunk right now.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">Shams has tied up the hands of my reason.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">I'm just wandering around thinking about him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well,<br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">If that's how my thoughts want to behave</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">on this new year's eve,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">then let it act totally crazy tonight!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.5556px; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">عید آمد و عید آمد یاری که رمید آمد</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">عیدانه فراوان شد تا باد چنین بادا</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">آن ماه چو تابان شد کونین گلستان شد</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">اشخاص همه جان شد تا باد چنین بادا</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">هم باده جدا خوردی هم عیش جدا کردی</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">نک سرده مهمان شد تا باد چنین بادا</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">شمس الحق تبریزی از بس که درآمیزی</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">تبریز خراسان شد تا باد چنین بادا</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">ای مطرب صاحب دل در زیر مکن منزل</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">کان زهره به میزان شد تا باد چنین بادا</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">خاموش که سرمستم بربست کسی دستم</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">اندیشه پریشان شد تا باد چنین بادا</span></span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large; line-height: 23.2639px;"><br /><br />مولانا جلال الدين بلخي رومي</span></b></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.5556px; line-height: 23.2639px;" /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">For me and all the party-lovers out there,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">new year is our luckiest time ever.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">Because new year's day is a perfect day</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">for partying and celebrations!</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">Because this upcoming new year</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">shall be our year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 23.25px;">Rumi - My Translation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">چو سال سال نشاطست و روز روز طرب</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">خنک مرا و کسی را که عیش خو </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;">دارد</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #660000; line-height: 23.2639px;"> مولانا جلال الدين بلخي رومي</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">Today is a day of happiness,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">and this new year</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">will be a year filled with fresh flowers.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">We're all so lucky to make it another year,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">may the flowers be also as lucky as we are!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.5556px; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">سال سال ماست و طالع طالع زهرهست و ماه</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">ای دل این عیش و طرب حدی ندارد تن بزن</span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;"><br /></span></b><b><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;"> </span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #660000; line-height: 23.2639px;"> مولانا جلال الدين بلخي رومي</span></b></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">and everyone wants to look their best</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">for the new year reunion with their lover.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">You are my new year companion,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">alleviate my year-long sufferings.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">You are the silk robe for every flower,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2639px;">cover my sharp and ugly thorns also.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The contemporary spiritualist, "new age guru", and Rumi's famous "version maker", Deepak Chopra got inspired by Rumi's Love Poems and asked several celebrities to read them to music for his hugely popular album, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-idP23bHCg" target="_blank"> A Gift Of Love: Deepak & Friends Present Music Inspired By The Love Poems Of Rumi</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Among them were Demi Moore, Goldie Hawn, Martin Sheen, Debra Winger, and Madonna who chose the poem "Bittersweet."</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>~ Deepak Chopra & Madonna ~</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>~ Rumi's Bittersweet ~</b></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is Rumi's original "Bittersweet" Poem in Farsi or Persian, it's Ghazal/Ode 1379 from his Diavn Shams Tabrizi:</span><br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="color: #990000;">مولانا - دیوان شمس</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #990000;">غزل شمارهٔ ۱۳۷۹</span></b><br />
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</b> <b>آمد خیال خوش که من از گلشن یار آمدم</b><br />
<b>در چشم مست من نگر کز کوی خمار آمدم</b><br />
<b>سرمایه مستی منم هم دایه هستی منم</b><br />
<b>بالا منم پستی منم چون چرخ دوار آمدم</b><br />
<b>آنم کز آغاز آمدم با روح دمساز آمدم</b><br />
<b>برگشتم و بازآمدم بر نقطه پرگار آمدم</b><br />
<b>گفتم بیا شاد آمدی دادم بده داد آمدی</b><br />
<b>گفتا بدید و داد من کز بهر این کار آمدم</b><br />
<b>هم من مه و مهتاب تو هم گلشن و هم آب تو</b><br />
<b>چندین ره از اشتاب تو بیکفش و دستار آمدم</b><br />
<b>فرخنده نامی ای پسر گر چه که خامی ای پسر</b><br />
<b>تلخی مکن زیرا که من از لطف بسیار آمدم</b><br />
<b>خندان درآ تلخی بکش شاباش ای تلخی خوش</b><br />
<b>گلها دهم گر چه که من اول همه خار آمدم</b><br />
<b>گل سر برون کرد از درج کالصبر مفتاح الفرج</b><br />
<b>هر شاخ گوید لاحرج کز صبر دربار آمدم</b><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Written by Rumi </b></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my hallucination</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I saw my beloved's flower garden</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my vertigo, in my dizziness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my drunken haze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I saw myself as the source of existence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was there in the beginning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I was the spirit of love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now I am sober</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is only the hangover</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the memory of love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And only the sorrow</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I yearn for happiness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I ask for help</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want mercy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And my love says:</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look at me and hear me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because I am here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just for that</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am your moon and your moonlight too</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am your flower garden and your water too</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have come all this way, eager for you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Without shoes or shawl</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want you to laugh</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To kill all your worries</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To love you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To nourish you</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh sweet bitterness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will soothe you and heal you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will bring you roses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I, too, have been covered with thorns.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166710689343321717.post-34177492585187470042015-12-06T00:30:00.000-08:002016-01-23T09:33:33.245-08:00Sufi Element in Ralph Waldo Emerson's Poetry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Emerson in "The Informing Spirit" states that the Soul is the greatest of all things and it is soul only which makes all other things and it is available in here and there. Soul has come from the Greatest One for us and it is extremely valuable and even by that one can be as like as its Owner –a Perfect one. Soul is the feather for flying up to the Real Peak and Real Nest and one who makes his soul pure and neat can fly such long distances towards his Origin without any exhaustion and hardships. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is no great and no small</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To the Soul that maketh all:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And where it cometh, all things are;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And it cometh everywhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am owner of the sphere,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of the seven stars and the solar year,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of Caesar‟s hand, and Plato's brain,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain."</span><br />
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Giving thanks to God for your riches of life<br />
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If you wish to live a life full of gratitude,<br />
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Giving thanks to God is the soul of all your riches,<br />
your material possessions are just a meaningless facade.<br />
It's your sincere gratitude to God<br />
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Money brings you carelessness and neglect.<br />
Gratitude brings you awakening and remembrance.<br />
Hunt for the divine treasures which are hidden<br />
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Giving thanks to God for all your riches of life<br />
will make you feel fully fulfilled and content.<br />
Go on and bestow more of your material wealth<br />
upon the poor and needy souls of this world.<br />
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Then God shall feed you sweet candies and divine food.<br />
Then you shall be able to finally get rid of<br />
all your accumulated bitterness and greed.<br />
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</b> <b>شکر نعمت خوشتر از نعمت بود</b><br />
<b>شکرباره کی سوی نعمت رود</b><br />
<b>شکر جان نعمت و نعمت چو پوست</b><br />
<b>ز آنک شکر آرد ترا تا کوی دوست</b><br />
<b>نعمت آرد غفلت و شکر انتباه</b><br />
<b>صید نعمت کن بدام شکر شاه</b><br />
<b>نعمت شکرت کند پرچشم و میر</b><br />
<b>تا کنی صد نعمت ایثار فقیر</b><br />
<b>سیر نوشی از طعام و نقل حق</b><br />
<b>تا رود از تو شکم خواری و دق</b><br />
<b><span style="color: red;">مولانا جلال الدين بلخي رومي</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Give thanks and praises to God <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">who always unties all our tight knots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As I wrapped myself in thanksgiving to Him,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Almighty untied all my tightly jammed knots.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are hundreds of hidden pathways inside a heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Only God knows how to open the pathway to a believer's heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">From His shining heavenly abode high up there -<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">God sends down rays of divine light entering our hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Almighty asked His creatures: "Am I Not Your Lord?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"YES Indeed You Are, We Do Testify,"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wishing all the Jews throughout the world a very happy Jewish New Year 2015. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Rosh Hashanah 5776!</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">EID Al-FITR HAS COME!</span></b><br />
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Eid al-Fitr has come<br />
Festival of Fast-Breaking has come<br />
The best of our luck has come<br />
Get up and play the drums<br />
The Eid Moon has just been sighted.<br />
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The month of fasting is over<br />
The night of separation is over<br />
Our runaway friend has come.<br />
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Happy Eid to all the Lovers out there!<br />
Lovers! <br />
Eid Mubarak To You All!<br />
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Lovers! <br />
Eid al-Fitr has come<br />
The Festival of Fast-Breaking has come.<br />
A Blessed and Happy Eid To You All!<br />
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Like the sign of a reunion<br />
In the palm of your hands,<br />
May the sign of this Eid al-Fitr<br />
Bring lots of joy and happiness to you all!<br />
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Eid celebrations are in abundance<br />
Wherever you go these days.<br />
If Eid is the sheer abundant joy<br />
Then let it remain in total abundance!<br />
<b>~Rumi ~ my translation ~</b><br />
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<b>گزيده ابياتي از مولانادر تجليل عيد فطر<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>WHAT AN AMAZING EID CELEBRATION!</b></span><br />
<b>(Ghazal/Ode #341 from Rumi's Divan)</b><br />
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Come, today is the joyous day of Eid al-Fitr.<br />
Come, there are many Eid parties<br />
and family gatherings<br />
going on everywhere these days.<br />
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Come, clap your hands and shout out loud:<br />
WE FEEL SO VERY HAPPY TODAY!<br />
IT IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE EID!<br />
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Muhammad has just returned from his Miraj-<br />
the nightly ascension into the heavens-<br />
to join us in our Eid celebrations.<br />
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Jesus has just showed up-<br />
coming down from the fourth heaven-<br />
to celebrate the Festival of Fast-Breaking with us.<br />
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Has anyone ever seen a joyous Eid celebration<br />
like the one we are celebrating today?<br />
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Heaven and earth are filled to the top<br />
with the special Eid sweets and candies.<br />
From every corner and balcony,<br />
Eid candies are being thrown at people!<br />
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The roaring sound of the <br />
pearl bestowing ocean waves<br />
can be clearly heard from faraway.<br />
But even oceans and waves<br />
come to a halt in celebrations of Eid al-Fitr.<br />
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Any wine that's not poured<br />
from the soul-stirring wine jar of Eid today,<br />
is just a cheap wine.<br />
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Any cash transaction<br />
that's not done in the true spirit of Eid today,<br />
is an unlawful transaction.<br />
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WHAT AN AMAZING EID CELEBRATION!<br />
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What a joyous Eid gathering<br />
going on in our Sufi tavern of ruins today,<br />
and how so lucky is our wine-server<br />
to also have Junaid of Baghdad and Bayazid of Bestam<br />
celebrating Eid al-Fitr with us today!<br />
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I'm so hangover right now,<br />
so blown away by all these amazing Eid celebrations<br />
that I completely forgot that <br />
during the Feast of Fast-Breaking,<br />
even God Himself acts up<br />
like one of my novice Sufi students!<br />
<b>~Rumi ~ my translation ~</b><br />
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<b>غزل 341 مولانا در تجليل عيد فطر<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Reap the Blessings of Your Fasting During Eid al-Fitr</b></span><br />
<b>(Ghazal/Ode #925 from Rumi's Divan)</b><br />
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There are always two Moons patiently<br />
waiting by the gates of the Heaven:<br />
The illustrated Moon of our Beloved<br />
and the illuminated Moon of Eid al-Fitr.<br />
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Once the two Moons collide with each other<br />
to decipher the mysteries of high above,<br />
a thousand temptations arouse <br />
in the mind of Eid al-Fitr!<br />
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The Prophet is coming down<br />
to join you in celebrating Eid al-Fitr.<br />
He'll take you to Feast of Fast-Breaking though<br />
only if you have fasted <br />
during the fasting month of Ramadan.<br />
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By fasting during the fasting month of Ramadan,<br />
you sacrificed the fat cow of your ego and desires.<br />
Now you shall reap the blessings <br />
of the thin and lean Moon of Eid al-Fitr!<br />
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Look what happens because you fasted in Ramadan,<br />
detoxified your toxic body, and showed <br />
sincere acts of sacrifices to Lord, your God:<br />
As a sign of His Divine rewards,<br />
God shall bestow upon you <br />
a gold mine of His Blessings<br />
during this Festival of Breaking the Fast.<br />
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Even if you've thrown the biggest stone<br />
at the mirror of fasting,<br />
or didn't even attempt a bit of<br />
spiritual inner-struggles<br />
during the fasting month of Ramadan,<br />
you are still allowed to drink<br />
the pure red wine from the wine-jar of Eid al-Fitr!<br />
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Go and fly away like a hunting falcon<br />
towards the Falcon King (God).<br />
Go and become your King's messenger bird<br />
bearing the good news of arrival of Eid al-Fitr.<br />
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As for those of you who didn't bother<br />
making a huge favor to yourselves,<br />
or fulfilling God's fasting command<br />
by sacrificing your bodies just a bit<br />
during the fasting month of Ramadan,<br />
may your gluttonous throats get slit <br />
by the sharp dagger of Eid al-Fitr!<br />
<b>~Rumi ~ my translation ~</b><br />
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<b>غزل شماره 925 از دیوان كبير مولانا <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Homosexuals are Equal to Heterosexuals in the Eyes of God</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Rumi - Masnavi</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> –</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Book 6 – Story of Ghulam Ghaus and his abduction by fairies..</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In his masterpiece, Masnavi Manavi or Spiritual Couplets of Profound Meanings, Rumi has touched on virtually every aspect of life, including sex and sexuality. Time and again, Rumi argues that sexual relationship between two consenting adults is not only a gift from God, but also a very normal part of life. There are numerous verses and stories in Rumi's Masnavi dealing specifically with 'Sex and sexuality', from platonic love, various highly explicit gay love stories, hard-core sex, and the vile and disgusting pedophilia, to the jaw-dropping and truly shocking Zoophilia or Bestiality- Sexual activity between humans and animals as Rumi has alluded in his famous story, <a href="http://www.naseeb.com/journals/very-interesting-rumi-poem-x-rated-7756" target="_blank">The Maid and the Donkey</a>; Rumi has written on virtually all aspects of sexuality and human sexual behaviors.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my opinion, Rumi has courageously and deliberately brought up the 'Sexual Taboos' of the conservative Islamic societies</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in his poetic outpourings to open up the hearts and minds of the close-minded individuals (Muslims and non-Muslims alike). Rumi teaches us in the following lines that all open manifestations of love and sexual activities between two consenting adults, whether homosexuals or heterosexuals, are not only divinely blessed sources of creativity, but also a natural part of human life. Rumi thus strongly argues that when it comes to sex and sexuality, there's absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In sum, once you grasp the true meanings of a 13th century Sufi Muslim mystic's 'Sex Education' teachings, then the 20th century Austrian '<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Psycho-Sexual' expert,<b> </b></span>Sigmund Freud comes across like an amateurish and inexperienced intern compared to Rumi's painstakingly detailed, very much "Avant-garde", and highly progressive sex education techniques. Once you get to read, analyze, and fully understand Rumi's 'Sexual Dreams', you simply laugh at childish 'Freudian Psychoanalysis' and the politically correct sexual 'Freudian Dreams'. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumi was clearly a thousand years ahead of his time, and one of the greatest pioneers of 'Sexual Revolution'.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please try reading my following translation without your cultural or religious bias. Or as Rumi would say: "Close your fault seeking eyes and open your spiritual eye."</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.muslimhope.com/Rumi.htm" target="_blank">Sexual and Bawdy Tales of Rumi</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://bahai-library.com/winters_themes_erotic_sufism" target="_blank">Themes of 'The Erotic' in Sufi Mysticism</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_Islam" target="_blank">LGBT in Islam</a></span></li>
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</b></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When God places feminine attributes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside a man's body,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He becomes naturally Gay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and seeks a male partner.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When God places masculine attributes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside a woman's body,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She becomes naturally Lesbian </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and seeks a female partner.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">View consensual sex between adults</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a sacred act of love-making,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But condemn non-consensual sex </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an act of violence and forced rape.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sexual assault and sexual violence </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have absolutely nothing to do </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a person's sexual orientation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A promiscuous person always engages</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In irresponsible sexual behaviors,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even if being the smartest person in the world.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is Sexuality?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A controversial topic, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sensitive point of view,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A natural erotic attraction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which brings consenting sexual partners together.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What God has hidden deep </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside the body of a homosexual person,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If He chooses to also hide it inside your body,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You will also change your sexual orientation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So as the old saying goes:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Know your neighbors first before buying a house!'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you truly have a pure heart, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Go and find t</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he love of your life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless of gender.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ Rumi ~ my translation ~</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">مثنوي معنوي - دفتر ششم -</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> قصه ى عبدالغوث و ربودن پريان او را و سالها ميان پريان ساكن شدن او و بعد از سالها آمدن او به شهر و فرزندان خويش را باز ناشكيفتن او از آن پريان بحكم جنسيت و همدلى او با ايشان</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">او مخنث گردد و گان می دهد</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">چون نهد در زن خدا خوی نری </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">طالب زن گردد آن زن سعتری</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">مهرها را جمله جنس مهر خوان</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">قهرها را جمله جنس قهر دان</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">لاابالی لا ابالی آورد</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">زانک جنس هم بوند اندر خرد</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">چیست جنسیت یکی نوع نظر</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">که بدان یابند ره در همدگر</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">آن نظر که کرد حق در وی نهان</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">چون نهد در تو تو گردی جنس آن</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">پس تو هم الجار ثم الدار گو</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">گر دلی داری برو دلدار جو </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">مولانا جلال الدين بلخي رومي </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The mystical utterances of Rumi and other great Sufi Masters speak directly to the heart. They encourage us to see the hidden Light, to discover Divine Secrets, to perceive the Way that lovers can find their Beloved. The Sufis, through their poems and ecstatic revelations are attempting to share their Secrets with the world, or at least with those discerning souls who find their words to be not only nice poetry, but something much more — soul-expressions coming from lovers caught up in the divine bliss of a Higher Reality."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: normal;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">My mother, she is simply the best mom ever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">My father, he is pure perfection and greatness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">I'm joy, son of joy, son of joy, son of joy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Does a hungry baby ever respond:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Yet she fiercely protects her child</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Like a seasoned hunter chasing down a prey.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">A mother would travel a</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> thousand miles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">For the sake of her child's </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Happiness and w</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">ell-being.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">A mother instinctively lets loose a hundred</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"Oh No...Oh God No.." cries of despair,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">When her child is going through hard times.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">When a mother loses her child,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">She cries and grieves so deeply</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Burning flames of sadness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">would pour out of her grieving heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">For as long as she is alive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">A mother would risk her own life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">To keep her child out of danger.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">A mother would give up her own life -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">A hundred times over if needed -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">To save the life of her precious child.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">A sick child shivers in fear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">While having blood drawn for analysis.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">But the caring mother feels overjoyed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Knowing her sick child will be cured soon.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Don't you ever judge and criticize a mother</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">For always overprotecting her child.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">God did not want to be everywhere,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">So He created mothers to represent Him.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">God created the patient mothers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">To comfort their crying babies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">God created the innocent babies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">To cry out loud and helplessly beg</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">For their mothers' comforting milk.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">No child can be born</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Unless a pregnant mother first goes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Through excruciating childbirth pain.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Pregnancy, labor pain, contractions,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Giving birth and motherhood experiences,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">They are all God's blessings for a mother.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">God deposits His divine mercy and trust</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Inside the heart of a pregnant mother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Thus a mother's heart becomes pregnant </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">With a precious gift from God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">That's why a mother's love is ever-eternal.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Just as a mother gives birth to a beautiful baby,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">This transitory material world we all live in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Shall also one day give birth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">To an eternal and beautiful Hereafter.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">With all these teachings and tributes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">To mothers, motherhood, and pregnancy experiences,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">I sure sound like a highly experienced male nanny!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #990000;">Rumi ~ my translation</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>گلچین اشعار مولانا ازدیوان ومثنوی دربزرگداشت مادر</b></span><br />
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</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>مادرم بخت بده است و پدرم جود و کرم</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>فرح ابن الفرح ابن الفرح ابن الفرحم</b></span><br />
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</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>یا به طفل شیر مادر بانگ زد</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>که بیا من مادرم هان ای ولد</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>طفل گوید مادرا حجت بیار</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>تا که با شیرت بگیرم من قرار</b></span><br />
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</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>بس ضعیفاند و لطیف و بس سمین</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>لیک مادر هست طالب در کمین</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>از پی فرزند صد فرسنگ راه</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>او بگردد در حنین و آه آه</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>آتش و دود آید از خرطوم او</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>الحذر زان کودک مرحوم او</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>غایبی مندیش از نقصانشان</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>کو کشد کین از برای جانشان</b></span><br />
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</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>بچه میلرزد از آن نیش حجام</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>مادر مشفق در آن دم شادکام</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>نیم جان بستاند و صد جان دهد</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>آنچ در وهمت نیاید آن دهد</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>دایه و مادر بهانه جو بود</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>تا که کی آن طفل او گریان شود</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>طفل حاجات شما را آفرید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>تا بنالید و شود شیرش پدید</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>این جهان و آن جهان زاید ابد</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>هر سبب مادر اثر از وی ولد</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>تا نگیرد مادران را درد زه</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>طفل در زادن نیابد هیچ ره</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>قابله گوید که زن را درد نیست</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>درد باید درد کودک را رهیست</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>درد خیزد زین چنین دیدن درون</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>درد او را از حجاب آرد برون</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>این امانت در دل و دل حاملهست</b></span><br />
<b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">این نصیحتها مثال قابلهست</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This coming Sunday, April 5, 2015 marks the Christian Holiday of Easter or the Resurrection of Jesus. I'd like to wish all the Christians throughout the world a very happy and blessed Easter.</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Muslims don't, but Christians do believe</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That Jesus was indeed crucified on the cross.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today, don't look for any healing by Jesus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Christ is still roaming the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Jesus ascended into the Heaven </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His healing miracles also died for us all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where is our sweet-breathed Jesus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who no longer needs the motherly interventions of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His immaculate virgin mother, Mary?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where is our sweet-breathed Jesus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To tear to pieces the veil which has darkened</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hearts of so many Christians these days?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even if the Antichrist manages to ignite</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The biggest fire of sorrows and despairs,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't be afraid of the those fake flames.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus shall draw his sword at the Final Battle</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To punish the wrongdoer Antichrist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is the good health to an already aging body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus is the promise of Hereafter to an immortal soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keep on waiting for the sign of Jesus in his Second Coming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Believe in Christ's ultimate return before the Judgment Day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Rumi ~ my translation</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">آن گمان ترسا برد مــؤمن نــدارد آن گمــان</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">كــو مسيح خــويشتن را بــر چليپا مي كشد</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">اکنون مکن دوا که مسیح تو برزمینست</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">چون شد مسیح بسوی فلک فوت شد دوا</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">کو آن مسیح خوش دمی بیواسطه مریم یمی</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">کز وی دل ترسا همی پاره کند زنار را</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> دجال غم چون آتشی گسترد ز آتش مفرشی</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> کو عیسی خنجرکشی دجال بدکردار را</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> تن را سلامتها ز تو جان را قیامت ها ز تو</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">عیسی علامت ها ز تو وصل قیامت وار را</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">مولانا</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fore more Rumi Poems on Jesus & a brief history of Easter in English and Farsi, please visit my previous posts:</span></b></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://sologak1.blogspot.com/2009/02/100-selected-rumi-poemsenglish.html" target="_blank">100 Selected Rumi Poems on Jesus</a></span><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2eYiFUxw9tg/SbmbTnc18UI/AAAAAAAABzo/R_lBjcsjDwI/s800/ball.gif" /></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://sologak1.blogspot.com/p/400-rumi-quotes.html" target="_blank">20 Rumi Photo Quotes on Jesus</a></span><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2eYiFUxw9tg/SbmbTnc18UI/AAAAAAAABzo/R_lBjcsjDwI/s800/ball.gif" /></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.farsinet.com/ChristInPersianPoetry/index.html" target="_blank">Christ and Christianity in Persian Poetry</a></span><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2eYiFUxw9tg/SbmbTnc18UI/AAAAAAAABzo/R_lBjcsjDwI/s800/ball.gif" /></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.farsinet.com/easter/" target="_blank">Resurrection Festival - Easter</a></span><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2eYiFUxw9tg/SbmbTnc18UI/AAAAAAAABzo/R_lBjcsjDwI/s800/ball.gif" /></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://christianity.about.com/od/holidaytips/qt/whatisgoodfrida.htm" target="_blank">What Is Good Friday?</a></span><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2eYiFUxw9tg/SbmbTnc18UI/AAAAAAAABzo/R_lBjcsjDwI/s800/ball.gif" /></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://christianity.about.com/od/holidaytips/qt/whatiseaster.htm" target="_blank">What Is Easter?</a></span><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2eYiFUxw9tg/SbmbTnc18UI/AAAAAAAABzo/R_lBjcsjDwI/s800/ball.gif" /></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://christianity.about.com/od/biblestudyresources/a/jesusfinalhours.htm" target="_blank">Timeline of Jesus' Final Hours</a></span><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2eYiFUxw9tg/SbmbTnc18UI/AAAAAAAABzo/R_lBjcsjDwI/s800/ball.gif" /></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.biblica.com/en-us/bible/bible-versions/persian-bible-farsi-bible/" target="_blank">The Holy Bible in Farsi or Persian</a></span><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2eYiFUxw9tg/SbmbTnc18UI/AAAAAAAABzo/R_lBjcsjDwI/s800/ball.gif" /></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.farsinet.com/ecards/easter.html" target="_blank">Easter Cards in Farsi or Persian</a></span><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2eYiFUxw9tg/SbmbTnc18UI/AAAAAAAABzo/R_lBjcsjDwI/s800/ball.gif" /></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2GU1ZyPbqVlNjZLUFhUanBwVm8/edit" target="_blank">Mystical Heritage of Children of Abraham</a></span><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2eYiFUxw9tg/SbmbTnc18UI/AAAAAAAABzo/R_lBjcsjDwI/s800/ball.gif" /></li>
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