From Divan e Hafiz.. Thou whose…

Khwaja Shamshuddin Mohammed(1325-1398). Pen name Hafiz

Thou whose features clearly beaming make the moon of Beauty bright,
Thou whose chin contains a well-pit which to Loveliness gives light.

When, O Lord! shall kindly Fortune, sating my ambition, pair
This my heart of tranquil nature and thy wild and ruffled hair?

Pining for thy sight my spirit trembling on my lip doth wait:
Forth to speed it, back to lead it, speak the sentence of its fate.

Pass me with thy skirt uplifted from the dusty bloody ground:
Many who have been thy victims dead upon this path are found.

Masnavi of Rumi. Sometimes the acti0ns…

Sometimes the action of God appears like this, sometimes the contrary;

(true) religion is nothing but bewilderment. (I mean) not one bewildered

in such wise that his back is turned on Him; nay, but one bewildered and drowned and drunken with the Beloved.

His face is set toward (devoted to) the Beloved, while the other’s face is just his own.

Look long on the face of everyone, watch attentively; it may be

That by doing service you will come to know the face (of the saint).

Since many a devil hath the face of Adam, you should not put a hand in every hand;

For as the fowler whistles to decoy a bird he is bent on catching,

Which hears the notes of its mate and comes down from the air and find s itself entrapped,

So does a vile man steals the language of dervishes

To fascinate and deceive one who is simple. The work of holy men is as light and heat;

The work of the ungodly is trickery and shamelessness.

Masnavi of Rumi. All these…

All these (various persons) are not in the right; nor again this herd is entirely astray,

Because nothing false is shown without the True,

The fool bought spurious coins in the hope of (it being) gold.

If there were no current (genuine) coins in the world,

how would it be possible to issue a false coin.

Unless there be truth, how should there be falsehood? That falsehood

receives brilliance from the truth..

Do not say, then, that all these utterance are false…

Do not say, then, that all (this) is fantasy and error:

Without truth fantasy exists not in the world.

Truth is the Night of Power (which) is hidden among the other nights…

Not all nights are (the Night of) Power.

Masnavi of Rumi. God calls himself…

God calls Himself ‘Seeing ’to the end that

His eyes may every moment scare you from sinning

God calls Himself ‘Hearing’ to the end that

You may close your lips against foul discourse.

God calls himself ‘knowing’ to the end that

You may be afraid to plot evil.

These names are not mere accidental names of God.

They are names derived from God’s essential attributes.

Not mere vain titles of the first cause.

Masnavi of Rumi. O reader…

O Reader, how many an evil that you see in others is but your own nature reflected in them! In them appears all that you are your hypocrisy, iniquity, and insolence,

You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul.

Like the lion who sprang at his image in the water, you are only hurting yourself, O foolish man.

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature,

Then you will know that the wickedness is in you.