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Ah, what was there in that light-giving candle that it set fire to the heart, and snatched the heart away?

Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi poetry, Muslim / Sufi, Muslim / Sufi poetry,  poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry,  poetry by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
(1207 - 1273) Timeline

English version by
A. J. Arberry

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

Muslim / Sufi
13th Century

Ah, what was there in that light-giving candle that it set fire to the heart, and snatched the heart away?
You who have set fire to my heart, I am consumed, O friend; come quickly, quickly!
The form of the heart is not a created form, for the beauty of God manifested itself from the cheek of the heart.
I have no succour save in his sugar, I have no profit save in his lip.
Remember him who one dawn released this heart of mine from the chain of your tress.
My soul, the first time I saw you my soul heard something from your soul.
When my heart drank water from your fountain it drowned in you, and the torrent snatched me away.

 

 

-- from Mystical Poems of Rumi: Volume 1, Translated by A. J. Arberry

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Themes

  Awakening
  Dawn
  Fire
  Heart
  Light


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