91. Surah Ash-Shams (The Sun)
y the sun and his brightness,
By the Moon as she follows him;
By the Day as it shows up the Sun's glory;
By the Night as it conceals it;
By the Firmament and Him Who made it,
And the earth and Him Who extended it,
By the Soul, and Him Who perfected it
Then He inspired it to understand what is right and wrong for it;
Truly he succeeds that purifies it,
And he fails that corrupts it!
And he fails that corrupts it!
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The love of that cherisher of lovers has come to his own house; Love has in form-conceiving a form melting all forms. You have come to your own house; welcome, enter! Your coming is with joy; enter by the door of the heart, run to the vestibule of the soul! Every mote of my being is in love with your sun; take heed, for motes have long transaction with the sun. See how before the window the motes gracefully suspended beat; whoever has the sun for a qibla prays after this fashion. In the concert of the sun these motes are like Sufis; no one knows to what recitation, to what rhythm, to what harmony. In every heart there is a different note and rhythm, all stamping feet outwardly, and the minstrels hidden like a secret. Loftier than all is our inward concert, our particles dancing therein with a hundred kinds of glory and pride. Shams-I Tabrizi, you are the sultan of the sultans of the soul; no Mahmud like you ever came into being, nor like me any Ayaz. *The love of Sultan Mahmud and Ayaz became proverbial; see Math. V:2858 foll. -- Translation by A.J. Arberry "Mystical Poems of Rumi 1" The University of Chicago Press 1968/1991 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join the Columbus Sufi Circle |
