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sufi

lala
رُومِيّ

Ride on! ride on! do not remain behind.

Know this! know this! your situation is most clear.

Gallop! gallop! you are fast riders;

Be proud! be proud, you are among the beauties in the world. What do

you have? what do you have? that the beloved does not have?

Bring that! bring that! whisper it in my ears.

The night before last, the night before last, what was the tavern like?

Tell me that! tell me that, if you are drunken wanderers of the night.

God has a wine, God has a wine hidden from all;

You and the world were created from a sip of that wine.


Divan 637:1-5 Jalal al-Din Rumi 1207 - 1273

Translated from Persian by Fatemeh Keshavarz
 
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sufi

lala
I went crazy last night, love ran into me and said:

'I am coming, do not shout, do not tear your clothes, speak no more."

"O love!" I said: "I am afraid of other things

"There is nothing else" it said: "speak no more.

I shall whisper hidden words in your ear;

You just nod in approval! except in secret speak no more!"


2219:1-5
 

Backjob

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God has given us a dark wine so potent that,
drinking it, we leave the two worlds

God has put into the form of hashish a power
to deliver the taster from self-consciousness

God has made sleep so
that it erases every thought.

God made Majnun love Layla so much that
just her dog would cause confusion in him.

There are thousands of wines
that can take over our minds.

Don't think all ecstasies
are the same!

Jesus was lost in his love of God
his donkey was drunk with barley.

Drink from the presence of saints,
not from those other jars.

Every object, every being,
is a jar full of delight.

Be a connoisseur,
and taste with caution.

Any wine will get you high.
Judge like a king and choose the purest,

the ones unadulterated with fear,
or some urgency about "what's needed."

Drink the wine that moves you
as a camel moves when it's been untied,
and is just ambling about.
 

sufi

lala
thanks backjob
that's a nice translation also..


The one who has not had a taste of love
Is but a piece of wood or stone to God.
Love extracts water from stones;
Love removes rust from mirrors.
infidelity seeks war, faith peace;
Love sets fire to war and peace alike.
Love opens its mouth in the sea of the heart;
It devours the two worlds like a whale.
Like a lion, love knows no ruse;
It does not change from a lion to a fox.


1331:1-5
 
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