Monday, October 29, 2007
chestdoc in me
Imagine you are writing your diary notes every day in your bedroom.As you know no one will read those papers ,you write very simple without no care of being accused for what you have written ,you confess your mistakes which you usually hide and you escape from. You shout your heart while absolutely silent ………
And I say the way he writes is like writing diary notes so reminds me this sentence that
Learning
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Learning through Living !
If I exit from class -life- without learning some thing and without having some thing to say, then I wasted my time only for passing my time.
just feeling
a happy FLY
IF THOUGHT IS LIFE
AND STRENGTH AND BREATH
AND THE WANT
OF THOUGHT IS DEATH
THEN AM I
A HAPPY FLY
IF I LIVE
OR IF I DIE.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
We are all one, approach of Zinat's
Yes, bringing the mirror is the best one because we're from you and when you look at yourself in the mirror you can see us,too.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
SAYINGs From MOLANA
Enough of these phrases, Conceit and metaphors,I want burning, burning, burning.
When the Sufi saint Rabi'a heard Salih of Qazwin teaching "Knock and the Door will open for you" she admonished him. "What are you talking about Salih, the Door has never been shut."
The great mystic poet Jalaluddin Rumi wrote, " I knocked and the door opened, but I found I'd been knocking from the inside"
"You've no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So- I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me."
Jalaluddin Rumi
Monday, October 22, 2007
Continue Starting! ;)
From now on, we're going to TALK with eachother through our posts so please unmark the comment option.
THANKS
Sunday, October 21, 2007
after reading my friends writings
by reading the new rulefrom Shabnam I wrote this:When I found my best love, I should die to receive it completely. So it will never go or change. Then the entire world is for me; because now I am the sky; I can see every body. If quietness…. So I am sure that I am dead because I am quiet and I like it. And now you say I am moon. I am so happy that I want to fly and laugh.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Molana vs. Blake
I went to the Garden of Love,
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And I saw it was filled with graves,
و آن چه را که هرگز ندیده بودم، دیدم
کلیسای کوچکی بر گستره ای سبز
که در گذشته زمین بازی ام بود
و درهای کلیسا بسته بود
و بر سر درش نوشته بودند: مبادا چنین و چنان کنی
پس به باغ عشق برگشتم
آن جا که هزاران گل خوشبو روییده بود
و دیدم که پُر از گور بود
و به جای گل ها، سنگِ گورها
و کشیش ها با ردای سیاه در رفت و آمد بودند
و با بوته های خار پیوند می زدند شور و خواهش مرا
I read some poems of William Blake and I found out that the similarities of his poems to the Molana's poems are more than the differences of their poems.
** Both of them has a special admiration to the NATURE; for instance: Garden, Flower, Day, Night, Sun, Moon, Reed, Greengrocer, Bushes, Dew, Spring, Winter & …. are in most of their poems.
** There is the Divine Love in their poems that emphasizes on Real Love.
** There are a lot of symbols and comparisons in Blake's poems such as Molana's ones.
But I like Molana's poems more than Blake's ones. I think Molana's poems are full of Real Emotions that let me touch them by My Heart.
Molana and William Blake
Both Molana and William has reached this point that human's soul is from God and they try to show me how to find it. Their languages are different from each other but they both imply one thing and that's the existence of God and his place, their languages are easy to understand because of the simple grammar they've used. This simplicity helps me to tear all the complexities (egoist one) and find my simple language. Taking everything easy in the framework of what God has asked me . If I think everything is difficult, I'll be far away from my real self since I'm the easiest one! Let me explain it in Farsi I've reached this point:
چرا هميشه بايد همه چيز رو سخت بگيريم؟ چرا بايد فكر كنيم كه راه رسيدن به خدا سخت ترين راهه و فقط پيامبران از عهده طي كردنش بر مي آمدند؟ اكثر ماها مي گيم (هوو! چه خبره! كي مي ره اين همه راهو! آقا جون سخته ما اهلش نيستيم! از ما بر نمياد قدم تو اينجور راها بذاريم! مارو چه به اين كارا! بذار زندگيمونو بكنيم! پيدا كردن خدا سواي از كار و زندگي ماست!) ميدونين چرا؟ چون همش نق مي زنيم مي گيم سخته سخته من نمي تونم تورو خدا بياين از اين قالب سخته و نمي تونمو آه و ناله در بيايم(با خودمم هستما!) بياين به همه چيز ساده نگاه كنيم و لقمه رو دور سر خودمون نچرخونيم تا به قول خانم قهرماني پوزيشن خودمونو پيدا كنيم.چراهميشه ما به آخرين پله نگاه مي كنيم مگه اولين پله چه مشكلي داره؟همين اولين پله س كه ما رو به اون آخريه مي رسونه ديگه. مولانا ميگه سعي نكن خورشيد باشي سعي كن از يك نقطه كوچك روشن شروع كني و به اون خورشيد برسي مي دوني چرا چون اينجوري طبيعي تره چون اين مايه دسترنج خودمونه تو اولين پله نيازي نيست از كسي تقليد كني چون بالا رفتن ازش آسونه
So let's start from the easiest way to gain the greatest one as God says از تو حركت از من بركت by this everything seems simple to us and we can discover our inside world easily.
Molana and William Blake
Both Molana and william has reached this point that human's soul is from God and they try to show me how to find it. Their languages are different from each other but they both imply one thing and that's the existence of God and his place, their languages are easy to understand because of the simple grammar they've used. This simplicity helps me to tear all the complexities (egoist one) and find my simple language. Taking everything easy in the framework of what God has asked me . If I think everything is difficult, I'll be far away from my real self since I'm the easiest one! Let me explain it in Farsi I've reached this point:
چرا هميشه بايد همه چيز رو سخت بگيريم؟ چرا بايد فكر كنيم كه راه رسيدن به خدا سخت ترين راهه و فقط پيامبران از عهده طي كردنش بر مي آمدند؟ اكثر ماها مي گيم (هوو! چه خبره! كي مي ره اين همه راهو! آقا جون سخته ما اهلش نيستيم! از ما بر نمياد قدم تو اينجور راها بذاريم! مارو چه به اين كارا! بذار زندگيمونو بكنيم! پيدا كردن خدا سواي از كار و زندگي ماست!) ميدونين چرا؟ چون همش نق مي زنيم مي گيم سخته سخته من نمي تونم تورو خدا بياين از اين قالب سخته و نمي تونمو آه و ناله در بيايم(با خودمم هستما!) بياين به همه چيز ساده نگاه كنيم و لقمه رو درور سر خودمون نچرخونيم تا به قول خانم قهرماني پوزيشن خودمونو پيدا كنيم.چراهميشه ما به آخرين پله نگاه مي كنيم مگه اولين پله چه مشكلي داره؟همين اولين پله س كه ما رو به اون آخريه مي رسونه ديگه. مولانا ميگه سعي نكن خورشيد باشي سعي كن از يك نقطه كوچك شروع كني و به اون خورشيد برسي مي دوني چرا چون اينجوري طبيعي تره چون اين مايه دسترنج خودمونه تو اولين پله نيازي نيست از كسي تقليد كني چون بالا رفتن ازش آسونه
So let's start from the easiest way to gain the greatest one as God says از تو حركت از من بركت by this everything seems simple to us and we can discover our inside world easily.
Molana and William Blake
Both Molana and william has reached this point that human's soul is from God and they try to show me how to find it. Their languages are different from each other but they both imply one thing and that's the existence of God and his place, their languages are easy to understand because of the simple grammar they've used. This simplicity helps me to tear all the complexities (egoist one) and find my simple language. Taking everything easy in the framework of what God has asked me . If I think everything is difficult, I'll be far away from my real self since I'm the easiest one! Let me explain it in Farsi I've reached this point:
چرا هميشه بايد همه چيز رو سخت بگيريم؟ چرا بايد فكر كنيم كه راه رسيدن به خدا سخت ترين راهه و فقط پيامبران از عهده طي كردنش بر مي آمدند؟ اكثر ماها مي گيم (هوو! چه خبره! كي مي ره اين همه راهو! آقا جون سخته ما اهلش نيستيم! از ما بر نمياد قدم تو اينجور راها بذاريم! مارو چه به اين كارا! بذار زندگيمونو بكنيم! پيدا كردن خدا سواي از كار و زندگي ماست!) ميدونين چرا؟ چون همش نق مي زنيم مي گيم سخته سخته من نمي تونم تورو خدا بياين از اين قالب سخته و نمي تونمو آه و ناله در بيايم(با خودمم هستما!) بياين به همه چيز ساده نگاه كنيم و لقمه رو درور سر خودمون نچرخونيم تا به قول خانم قهرماني پوزيشن خودمونو پيدا كنيم.چراهميشه ما به آخرين پله نگاه مي كنيم مگه اولين پله چه مشكلي داره؟همين اولين پله س كه ما رو به اون آخريه مي رسونه ديگه. مولانا ميگه سعي نكن خورشيد باشي سعي كن از يك نقطه كوچك شروع كني و به اون خورشيد برسي مي دوني چرا چون اينجوري طبيعي تره چون اين مايه دسترنج خودمونه تو اولين پله نيازي نيست از كسي تقليد كني چون بالا رفتن ازش آسونه
So let's start from the easiest way to gain the greatest one as God says از تو حركت از من بركت by this everything seems simple to us and we can discover our inside world easily.
Molana and William Blake
Both Molana and william has reached this point that human's soul is from God and they try to show me how to find it. Their languages are different from each other but they both imply one thing and that's the existence of God and his place, their languages are easy to understand because of the simple grammar they've used. This simplicity helps me to tear all the complexities (egoist one) and find my simple language. Taking everything easy in the framework of what God has asked me . If I think everything is difficult, I'll be far away from my real self since I'm the easiest one! Let me explain it in Farsi I've reached this point:
چرا هميشه بايد همه چيز رو سخت بگيريم؟ چرا بايد فكر كنيم كه راه رسيدن به خدا سخت ترين راهه و فقط پيامبران از عهده طي كردنش بر مي آمدند؟ اكثر ماها مي گيم (هوو! چه خبره! كي مي ره اين همه راهو! آقا جون سخته ما اهلش نيستيم! از ما بر نمياد قدم تو اينجور راها بذاريم! مارو چه به اين كارا! بذار زندگيمونو بكنيم! پيدا كردن خدا سواي از كار و زندگي ماست!) ميدونين چرا؟ چون همش نق مي زنيم مي گيم سخته سخته من نمي تونم تورو خدا بياين از اين قالب سخته و نمي تونمو آه و ناله در بيايم(با خودمم هستما!) بياين به همه چيز ساده نگاه كنيم و لقمه رو درور سر خودمون نچرخونيم تا به قول خانم قهرماني پوزيشن خودمونو پيدا كنيم.چراهميشه ما به آخرين پله نگاه مي كنيم مگه اولين پله چه مشكلي داره؟همين اولين پله س كه ما رو به اون آخريه مي رسونه ديگه. مولانا ميگه سعي نكن خورشيد باشي سعي كن از يك نقطه كوچك شروع كني و به اون خورشيد برسي مي دوني چرا چون اينجوري طبيعي تره چون اين مايه دسترنج خودمونه تو اولين پله نيازي نيست از كسي تقليد كني چون بالا رفتن ازش آسونه
So let's start from the easiest way to gain the greatest one as God says از تو حركت از من بركت by this everything seems simple to us and we can discover our inside world easily.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Love
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give & receive
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be. "
Monday, October 15, 2007
running!
had told us about walking.Running is like walking,in a more speedy way.Now,when I see
others running,I feel them,& I understand how they feel.This perception has come to me
recently.B4,I used to pass over them,paying no attention.I ignored them.But now I pay
attention & see them,& feel them.U know,I like the fast breathing after running.Tell
me how do you feel about running & walking?
uNtITleD!
so wenever yo felt that you have had enough & felt tired of this wolrd & wannet to screem,remeber that your beloved iz through the timelessness,in the placelessness,nazdiktar az shahrag e gardan!so keep in silence & enjoy the pain ov bein NEY & the waitin for the VESAAAL!
There is a candle in your heart
There is a candle in your heart,
ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul,
ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?
You feel the separation
from the beloved.
Invite Him to fill you up,
embrace the fire.
Remind those who tell you otherwise that love,
comes to you of its own accord,
and the yearning for it
cannot be learned in any school.
by Rumi
moon in my mind
the new RULE
- Inside this new love, die.Your way begins on the other side.Become the sky.Take an axe to the prison wall.Escape.Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.Do it now.Your covered with thick cloud.Slide out the side. Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died.Your old life was a frantic running from silence.The speechless full moon comes out now.
"I used to want buyers for my words.Now I wish someone would buy me away from words.
gate of hope
mevlana and human being
This sentence put me into magic.
could you imagine that you are a droplet that is vanished in God's love ocean?
or you are in god's arms?
Imagine that how much he is alone! He dont need our worshiping just with wisdom, he is lookforward to our real love.
I believe that we'll be asked for love that is given just to humanbeing as a beautiful and different gift for understanding , touching and melting in God.
Sorry I forgot .By reading my friend's reflections , I could swim in the pool of present.
I'm too emotional , aren't you?
Where is my PositiOn?
I was reading our october posts:
on Monday, October 08, 2007 Zahra(aquaticnights) asked "what is my position in this world?"
yesterday, as Akram and I were sharing our worlds...searching our positions...
she thinks a lot and this is why she is so special to me ...
she could easily tell me who I am and how I feel... My position! and she is truly true. :D she put it in words which I couldn't do ever!
Any way, reading your posts, Dear pals, gave me different feelings...
It seems to me...standing in a safe Zone...no revealing your words freely except Zahra t & Talin!
May be It's beacause I've not revealed myself ... not sure!
!!! How Beautiful !!!
mirrors images of the Invisible.
He becomes intuitive and certain
of our inmost thought,
because "the faithful are a mirror for the faithful."
[I, 3146-7]
every cause is a mother; the effect born is as a child.
When the effect was born, it too became a cause
so that it might give birth to wondrous effects.
These causes follow generation upon generation,
but it takes a very well-illumined eye
to see all the links in the chain.
[II, 1000-2]
IT IS WHAT IT IS
When i have a problem or when i make a mistake, i'm surte that God will help me and never leave me alone. When people believe and become sure that they have someone who is always with them they don't ever feel alone and never become hopless. Another thing that i want to say is that the religous beliefs are different in different religions. For example, muslims worship God by saying prayers, christians do this by another way and also other religions and other ways. But when i think i realize that something is the same in all of them and that is truth. Truth is something that all the religions are following it and search for it. Searching for truth is in the nature of human being. Each of us find the truth in different way. One of his beautiful poems that had a effect on me was "Musa and the shepherd". And he proved this fact beautifully. God ordered Musa
هر كس را اصطلاحي داده ايم it means that people have different language for worshiping God, but all of them have the same aim. And at the end Musa told the shepherd هيچ آدابي و تربيتي مجو هر چه مي خواهد دل تنگت بگو it means that you do not need to have specefic language for talking to God, just your tendency is important.
The memory of Molana nevere had been forgotten in different centuries and in all over the world, all the people recall him as a great حق طلب and this is a great honor for iranian to have such a person.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
For example you can have different Niats for what you do .A Moslem doesn't lie because he is scared of going to Hell .Another one doesn't do so becausehe is aware of the bad effect of lying on his\her life .theother one doesn't lie because he\she loves GOD & doesn't want to offend him by ignoring his rules.
I think the third Niat is the best & Mowlana's Niat is near this.
Paradise & Hell or in other word the reward & the punishment is not important for him.
1. Sit down in this circle…! I think this circle is the world. (Imagine a circle) so the world is so small. People will meet each other again one day. From another view when I am out of circle I don't and cannot see what is happening or what is real! When I enter I will see how big it is! So how is it? Small or big?
I wanted to change the word (I) to (you) because I wanted to talk to you about it. To make you think about it. But I used (I) to show my idea.
2. Live in silence: we can live in silence and I was living in silence but I am not alone always. Others forced me to live in a busy world. I liked the silent world and again I try to reach it. (I can't explain more)
3. No light and no land anywhere: I feel I have nowhere to go and stay, nowhere is mine because my mind is full of sadness. I want to stay in a place with full of peacefulness.
Walking or running
Now that we are passing our life, how can we live hour lives:
Running the life, pushing others or throwing them away with our heads down or…
Walking throw the life, looking with heads off, smiling at other passengers, looking for similarities more than differences…
We have not learn to live the life, the are few people who try to look for the reason and finding answers for their questions.
Molana was one of the greatest and though he was so much grate and admired, his attitude didn’t affect his thoughts and behavior. But it’s not enough to be affected only when the circumstance is ready for, if there is even a little difference in our acts and there is something settled in us, then we can say we have put steps toward understanding.
Self & Ego
We are always two: Self and ego. Ego wants to be seen. To be showed off. To be labeled. It doesn’t care much about others.
Ego is what it seen by others at first glance. But self is seen by the third eye. You should want to see beyond curtains, close both eyes to see with the third eye.
Molana looks behind the surface and shallow differences and labels, so looks for humanism. What is human creating for. So he honor all religious traditions, ‘cos’ he loves God and all its creatures.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Reflection
Close Both Eyes
To See with The Other Eye.
When I read this part of his poem for the first time I really enjoyed of it. I thought about it very much and I think I found out what he means.
By this golden guidance he learns me to see every thing with my Heart's Eye.
In my opinion if I use of my both eyes only, I would be a materialist but if I close my both eyes and see with my Heart's eyes, then I could have an intellectual favor to know myself better.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
knowledge
Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul.
If you have failed to understand yourself,
Then all of your reading has missed its call.
What is the purpose of reading those books?
So that man can know the All-Powerful.
If you have read, but failed to understand,
Then your efforts are just a barren soul."
Understanding shouldn't only come through our minds,as Molana says we must get every thing with our hearts, inwardly.Our morality has better understanding than the brain.The things we've understood with heart remain much more.Our heart never dies,but our brain may die. What raises a man to a higher position are the inner sciences:
There's a story between a grammarian & a boatman:
"A certain grammarian embarked in a boat. That self-conceited person turned to the boatman.
And said, 'Have you ever studied grammar?', 'No', he replied. The other said, 'half your life is gone to naught.'
The boatman became heart-broken with grief, but at the time
he refrained from answering.
The wind cast the boat into a whirlpool: the boatman spoke loud (shouted) to the grammarian.
Tell me, do you know how to swim?' 'No', said he, 'O fair-spoken good-looking-man!'
'O grammarian,' said he,' your whole life is naught, because the boat is sinking in these whirlpools.'
Know that here mahw (self-effacement) is needed, not nahw (grammar): if you are mahw (dead to self), plunge into the sea without peril.
The water of the sea places the dead one on its head (causes him to float on the surface); but if he be living, how shall he escape from the sea?
Another of Molana’s advice about knowledge is that knowledge makes its owner gain a high esteem when it is united with good deeds. it is not sufficient to be knowledgeable (Fihi Mafih, 93). Those who are knowledgeable but devoid of good deeds are not scholars but only knowledge keepers (Masnavi, III/3060). What is understood from this thought is that Mevlana favours that theoretical knowledge should be applied to life. Knowledge should never be kept in words and theory, but to be applied to life, to be lived with.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
چشم دل
in the 7th page of ''RUMI INTRUDUCTION''i got a very beautiful point.It talkes about a rock and it says when you see something,here rock,if it has a meaning just for you not for everyone,it can be incidental.how about something that has different messages,for years and through the centuries?then can we call this incidental too?I think rock here is the symbol of life.How to go up is how to live and how to choose our way and how to deal with the problems.every one's birth is a new message from god.How many people get life's message by climbing this mountain.
هر انساني كه متولد مي شودنشانه اين است كه خدا هنوز از انسان نوميد نيست.(رابيندرانات تاگور
Monday, October 8, 2007
IN THE NAME OF GOD
come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
I think lover of leaving are all the people who want to have a new and good life to come out from all the prisons; like me. I am not satisfied from my place. I want to leave to go somewhere new. To search abut unseen things, to reach to the peacefulness (for example if I lose my jewelry I don't feel sad) His language is very simple and at the same time very hard for me to understand. Because sometimes I feel the things he says at the first time and they have a sensce for me but sometimes I don't see myself in what he is saying even by reading lots of times.
Rumi `s love and honor for all religious traditions… it shows his high personality. He loves all because he loves God. He has public challenge. An effective challenge in the center of life with the people that don't understand his ideas but at last he is successful. He has vitality in his writings and poetry and a relevancy that reaches to our inner core .I can feel it. We are all from one source. I think if one person reaches to it and tells others people can feel and understand it. In this subject time plays no role.
sama' dance(whirling)
who is right?!!!
Even today Rumi challenges many of our basic cultural assumption .In fact we are challenging Rumi's valuable ideas.He asks us a very "thinkable" question "if a saint who carries God's secret jewel ,strikes and hits some one ,who is the wronged party?"
We answer it like this: his being saint does not justify what he did but it gets questioned. every human being is JAYEZOLKHATA even saint ones or messengers! They can never justify their KHATA by God.
DO NOT forget that God is THE MAIN STANDARD
Nowadays it has become our habit ,when we are judging people we are not walking through them we are just driving as fast as we can ,we have forgot the touchstone and the result is a terrible accident into a big wall of ignoring their mistakes only because they have high ranks among society . Actually we are putting SHARIK for the touchstone although we claim to worship the unique God, it is like driving in a pavement instead of walking .DO NOT get confused . it is very simple . when we equate God and a blue-blooded usual person, it is like driving in sidewalk instead of street.
In fact , we are somehow discussing the Greengrocer and the parrot.
we don’t open our eyes to judge fairly.
We don’t refer to the MAIN STANDARD.
We follow our culture which we are not sure whether it is black or white.
Hey ,you amigo………
Never ever forget where you have come from and where and who is your origin.
ONLY HE IS RIGHT
ZAHRA and BAHAR
آزادي در بي آرزوييست
Posted by Narges & Fatima
It remined me of Mr Eslami's , one o' my professors,words...once he told me:" Imagine one day you go mountain climbing. there, there is a fence around the mount with a big lock...people would rush for it :D but now that it is free no one goes!
My friends and family, people I know including myself; are very precious to me. They are the treasure that I look at their preciousness.
Fihi ma Fihi is one of molana's discourses. It is translated to In It What Is In It but the writer of "Rumi introduction" suggested It Is What It Is and he believes that these 2 "it"s refer to the book Fihi ma Fihi and Masnavi. 'cause I haven't read Fihi ma Fihi I don't know what it is about and don't have any sense about it! :p I'm sorry...
...sth nice, I've always had problem writting but now I'm rally enjoying it. :)
be the wise person,look every events in a different way, try to find new meanings .dont be the foolish one that just walks away and doesnt pay any attention to the events happening on the way. look for new things on the way of your life.
Molana's Treasure
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But in my life I forget this fact so many times.For example success at university entrance examination had become a treasure for me,however it was just a key.
I hope Molana's way can be a guide for me.ENSHA'ALLAH!
**** Reality of Life ****
In my opinion according to this literary phrase the deepest part ot every thing is God`S WILL , I mean when I look at something I see only the shallowest part of it then it may be so unbearable for me but when I pay more attention to it I can see nothing except GOD.
Us In Molana's Mirror!
Even if yo are a kind a sharp person,yo will get into mishmash & the real delicious taste of strugglin with hiz wordz!& believe that this struggle doezn alwayz come up with a clear conclusion,may be a long lastin feelin ov confusion putz yo through later timez;)
& nice iz the image that bringz the rhythm ov hiz SAMA' through versez ov him wen you are readin them.
Khodaayash Biaamorz!
pesian sufi sage
his humming and his highest joy is the time to talk with God and drown in the ocean. what is in rumi,s expressioon is to absorb in God.rumi s is deep love and his beloved is Allah even though is his poems , imaginary thoughts are flowing , but everybody khonws , what he think and, he means , is God. thats why his dance is the highest point of lover and beloved and sevant.
In his poetry he used the pen-name KHAMUSH and from 15 th century came be khnown as Mwlavi. for nine years rumi practiced sufism as disuple of Baha al din that rumi inhetrited the spritual deritage of his father and became initiated in to mysteries of SUFISM.
he was occupied with teaching meditating , helping the poor and other avtivities of a religious scolar.
WHY should i seek?
I am the same as he
His essence speak through me
I have been searching for myself.
HOW doest THOU khnow what sort of king , i have within me
as COMPANION.
DO not cast THY glance upon my GOLDEN FACE ,
for i have IRON LEG.
HIS EPITAPH
when we are dead , seek not our tumb in the earth , but find it in
the HEART of men
posted by zohreh
Truth is WHAT Truth is page 1&2
There are some literary phrases in these pages like (great mystical poet) .This phrase used for molavi is very suitable,he says everything in a mystrious way but at the same time he tries to close me to reality .
I believe all that molavi tries to show me is about reality,he says come,come,whoever i am, whatever i do, wherever i am zit does not matter, i should just be myself and follow the realities of everything ,just being the seeker of truth.
In my world truth is truth and nothing else does not matter while there are so many differences through people and things and nature beings ,just respect every thing .When i read these to pages it makes me think deeper and calmer person .
I believe when i think about s.th i can imagine that in my mind and wheni hear s.th precious for my soul and mind,you try to keep it in my mind and feel the presence of that sentence flowing in my life and teaches when i really need it.
in my life i need being with nature & people sharing with them hearing them and that way i can be & recognize myself the way god really wants me to be.
breaking the great ego is all i want !
zinat
BE MELTING SNOW,WASH YOURSELF OF YOURSELF
I feel happy when i read the poet of molavi that Elham has given us.
I've always thought that it is very nice to see others just like yourself,think that they have the same feelings as yours and...i try alot not to be selfish,i think many of our worries are because of our ego.i have a good feelings when these texts remind me my old knowldge.it is a big relief,we should think of people like God,we should take care of our surroundings.try not to be mistaken between selfconfidence and kindness.BE MELTING SNOW,WASH YOURSELF OF YOURSELF.
to see with the other eye.
چشمها را بايد شست
جور ديگر بايد ديد
we think when people concentrate on objects in a shallow way, they can not see their real accept. If they look at things whith inside eye they can underestand everything is a symbol of God, and its aim is getting to God.
and all of them are related to each other.
be melting snow
wash yourself of yourself....!
حاسبوا انفسكم قبل ان تحاسبوا
whash yourself of ego, pride,pessimistic,jealousy...
language of molana in my life
I have imprisoned myself in confinements I created for myself and I do not even notice that this is the jail I built with my egoes . what is need to be done is to break the egojail's door whitch I don't think to be simple.
I think if egoes be gone, all the this world uselessthings will be gone too then, I can live in silence and then I can open my inner eye.
I always think about where I am in this world .I did not really understand what was the meaning of ocean in this poem but if it means the love that GOD gave us and still give us I can say that every person is part of this ocean we are oceanic since we are love, and we are created of love. but the important thing is that where
I am in the ocean and where I should be , where God wants me to be.
when I think about life reflected in molana's poem and my own life I can see the big big differences between these two and I always think about the ways I can make them similar.
when we see the life in molana's poem and I compare it with my life I see that I always wanted not to sit in this circle but I still don't know the reason .
I hope with digging up in to molana's poems I can experience the sema of slavery and mastery whitch I think the fact of life is hidden in.
a review
me are my ego not my real self.In life my responsiple is to be in progress to get that real self.
molana's poets lit a light for me and chang my eye direction from looking outside to my inside and I found it this time a bit lighter.There was a sentence '' who is the real stranger to Truth?''
it's always my concern that am I familiar with truth or no I'm stepping on the wrong way .I suppose with help of my real self recognising the truth is easier, in that way I will feel it spontainously. Having literatcy is completly different from having sience thats why some educated people thinks truth is their permanet friend but after facing molana's atitudes they feel emptiness and it seemes they are still strang with it and have to work from the first step.
Simin
from the placeless
مكانم لا مكان باشد نشاتم بي تشان باشد
Belief
Wash yourself of yourself....!
I can't do this!!This is all about the belief.I DO believe in God but I don't believe in myself.I'm mixed up!!!Believe in God causes believing in everything in yourself.So why I can't believe in myself????!!!It might be because of the levels of the believing.Belivieng in God has different levels.I should have been in the primary one(like a child who is starting to learn,to grow...)I believe in God,I know God is there forever but I can't ALWAYS touch it-just very often-.I know I love him but I can't feel this love,I mean....4 example I love my dad and I feel it but I cannot feel my love toward God.I just know that I love him.comilicateeeedddd....
OPen your hands,
if you want to be held.
People who don't know ANYTHING about belief can't do this;for they can't trust.When there is no belief and faith there is no trust.There is no beauty.And fear covers everywhere.
Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thoughts!
HOW?By belief.Belief destroys worrying.
Rumi introduction
Molana’s language starts from human repentance and prayer which at first is material, then it becomes wider and reaches (goes through) the endless unity(of God) which is spiritual. Infact, his language is likely to show this infinity. Starting from a dot (.) and reaching endless dots (...... ).
Fihi ma fih or it is what it is (I don’t like this translation because it has limitation in itself!) includes spiritual discussions with his students, holy poems and phrases, and sama dance (Whirling Dervish exercise) which by making it, Molana opened a spiritual door for the sad people of Konya and Turkey. As he says “This is the sema of slavery and mastery dancing together”
Arberry the translator of Discourses of Rumi declares that his literal work “is not an easy book to read…and the original is by no means easy (not at all) easy always to understand” and his translation (Chittick and Shah) has technical problems. The editors hope that this edition of the book is to build on Professor Arberry’s contribution (means is to use his contribution as a basis for further progress).
One of the differences between the original manuscript of Rumi’s discourses and this book is the dropping of phrases like “may Allah bless him and give him peace” (درود و رحمت خدا بر او باد) which came after every references to prophets in Rumi’s days and even now (this shows respectful way of speaking among Muslims). Basically Rumi makes many references to Koran because he knows that his listeners are familiar with it and it’s a flick for them to remember their sanctities.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
By reading Molana's poems ,I feel that I can see my realself in every creature and be united and calm with them (I mean live between oppositions but remain united)
And I really want to be melt in the snow,to be a piece of ocean like a raindrop,
Tobe versified in the songs of birds. After melting in God's gifts , there'll be no me(ego), I'll be born again and I can experience everything from the beginning like a baby.
In my opinion, one of the most valuable gifts is Suffering.
Suffering is that alchemy that we should welcome it. Because it changes our copper(ego) into gold(real self) .It seems that Molana indirectly forces us walking instead of driving, lighting the candles instead of sleeping in darkness and find our real self
Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul.
If you have failed to understand yourself,
Then all of your reading has missed its call.
What is the purpose of reading those books?
So that man can know the All-Powerful.
If you have read, but failed to understand,
Then your efforts are just a barren soul. "
walking or running
Thursday, October 4, 2007
When we read Molana's poems or at least when I read them;I can see a beautiful
And wonderful and ofcourse rare sense within .we realize an impatience in those poems and I like this sense .we can see and feel continuous changing inside of Molana
And certainly with these changes he toiled a lot untill he can gain evolution.
And you know better than me that evolution is accompanied by suffering and transition . and ofcourse molana approve me that when one reach to this stage there is
No way but silence.and we can say bravely that time our body cannot bear our soul.
I wish I reach to that stage before death.
It seems that molana wants to wake up(become alert)
خواب را بگذار امشب اي پسر يك شبي بركوي بي خوابان گذر
He owe to shams for this alertness because of opportune flick.
And after this stage this is reality of molana that is revealed for us.
After reading his poems ;I feel I can hear and see everything without any opposition.
Something become enlightened inside of me that force me tobe silent.This feeling make my appearance calm and create an uproar in my inner.
About Molana
Fire of love is set upon the reed
Passion of love this wine will gladly feed
Reed is match for he who love denied
Our secrets unveiled, betrayed, defied.
Who has borne deadly opium like the reed?
Or lovingly to betterment guide and lead?
Of the bloody path, will tell many a tale
Of Lover’s love, even beyond the veil.
None but the fool can hold wisdom dear
Who will care for the tongue if not ear?
In this pain, of passing days we lost track
Each day carried the pain upon its back
If days pass, let them go without fear
You remain, near, clear, and so dear.