"Is there anyone who can't see the full Moon?" Please join the Columbus Zikr Circle, Saturday, August 29th, 2015 7:30 pm for the last full moon of summer

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STILL SOME SECRETS

O friend, can't you see?
Your face is flowing with light.
The whole world could get drunk
on the love found in your heart.

Don't run here and there
looking all around
He is right inside you.

Is there any place where the Sun doesn't shine?
Is there anyone who can't see the full Moon?

Veil upon veil, thought upon thought
Let go of them all,
For they only hide the truth.

Once you see the glory
Of his moon-like face,
what excuse could you have
for pain and sorrow?

Any heart without his love
even the king's heart
is a coffin for the dead.

Everyone can see God
within his own heart
everyone who is not a corpse.
Everyone can drink
from the waters of life
and conquer death forever.

The veil of ignorance
covers the Sun and Moon;
It even causes Love to think, "I am not divine."

O Shams, Blazing Light of Tabriz,
There are still some secrets of yours
that even I cannot tell.

-- Ghazal 505
Version by Jonathan Star, with Shahram Shiva
"A Garden Beyond Paradise: The Mystical Poetry of Rumi"
Bantam Books, 1992

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Please join the Columbus Zikr Circle, Saturday, August 29th, 2015, 7:30 pm 
for Zikr Allah on  the last full moon of summer, 
bring your full moon poems, your end of summer poems,
 zikrs to sing and dance.
All welcome

1000 Urlin Avenue, apt 1021
Grandview Heights Oh 43212

For more information call or email Hilal at:
hilal1001@sbcglobal.net 614-446-3337