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Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi was a 13th century Persian poet, an Islamic dervish and a Sufi mystic. He is regarded as one of the greatest spiritual masters and poetical intellects. Born in 1207 AD, He made use of everyday life’s circumstances to describe the spiritual world
Pure light
I am totally lost in the folds of Love,
totally free of worry and care.
I have passed beyond the four qualities.
My heart has torn away the veil of pretense.
There was a time I circled with the nine spheres, rolling with the stars across the sky.
There was a time I stayed by his side—
I lived in his world
and he gave me everything.
With the best of intentions
I became a prisoner in this form.
How else did I get here?
What crime did I commit?
But I’d rather be in a prison with my Friend
than in a rosegarden all alone.
I came to this world
To have a sight of Joseph’s purity
Like a baby born of its mother’s womb,
I was brought here with blood and tears.
People think they are born only once
But they have been here so many times.
In the cloak of this ragged body
I have walked countless paths.
How many times I have worn out this cloak!
With ascetics in the desert
I watched night turn into day.
With pagans in the temple
I slept at the foot of idols.
I’ve been a charlatan and a king;
I’ve been a healer, and fraught with disease.
I’ve been on my death-bed so many times. . . . Floating up like the clouds
Pouring down like the rain.
As a darvish I sought the dust of annihilation
but it never touched my robe.
So I gathered armfuls of roses
in this faded garden of existence.
I am not of wind nor fire
nor of the stormy seas.
I am not formed out of painted clay.
I am not even Shams-e Tabriz—
I am the essence of laughter,
I am pure light.
Look again if you see me—
It’s not me you have seen!
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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