Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi: Love is Here

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Love is Here

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
Andrew Harvey

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

Muslim / Sufi

13th Century

Love is here; it is the blood in my veins, my skin.
I am destroyed; He has filled me with Passion.
His fire has flooded the nerves of my body.
Who am I? Just my name; the rest is Him.

-- from Perfume of the Desert: Inspirations from the Sufi Wisdom, by Andrew Harvey / Eryk Hanut

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Themes

Fire

Lover and Beloved

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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

Who am I? Just my name; the rest is Him.

We are, each of us, just a thin gauze-like veil delicately draped over the Divine. The slightest puff of breath or spark of fire dispells the illusion that we are a separate substance...

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