Guest guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 > GRACE > > Boundless grace, that bewitching beauty bestows ! > If his bounteous beneficience is unrecognized > You rebel, thinking this wizard is tyrannical. > > Whoever saw in the two worlds a charmer that wasn’t strict? > His love is sugarcane but he holds back the sweetness, > His beauty is perfect faith but he holds back certainty. > > Show me a house he doesn’t fill with candelabra, > Show me a porch unfurnished by His majestic glory, > When the soul is lost in meditation and contemplation > It is said ‘none but God comprehends the Divine beauty’. > > The eye and the lamp are two lights for each individual, > When they meet, no one draws any distinction. > Every metaphor is both an explanation and a misconception, > God reveals by rosey dawn, envious of His own brilliant light . > Never did that shrewd master tailor called fate > Stitch a shirt to anyone’s exact measure > He usually rips it to shreds, sooner or later . > > That Glorious Sun of Shamsi Din Tabriz* > Never shone upon anyone perishable, that he failed to make Eternal. Note:Shamsi was Rumi's Jnani-Guru* Alan Jacobs, from some versifications of Rumi's Mathnawi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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