27 May 2009

Wandering Sufis (Qalandars), a poem by Rumi







There are wild wandering Sufis
called Qalandars,
who are constantly tickled with life.
It's scandalous how they love and laugh
at any small event.
People gossip about them, and that
makes them deft in their cunning,
but really
a great God-wrestling goes on
inside these wanderers,
a flood of sunlight
that's drunk with the whole thing...
- Rumi