#Shams Tabrizi

[maryflorlovyblog]

"⁠The Universe is a single complete entity. Everything and everyone are linked, through invisible threads. Don't hurt anyone's heart, don't look down when someone is weaker than you. Someone's sadness on the other side of the world can make the whole world suffer, just as someone's happiness can make the whole world smile."

—Shams Tabrizi

[holyfigtree]

~ shams tabrizi

[kafi-farigh-yusra]

I once had thousands of desires. But in my one desire to know You, all else melted away.

~Rumi

[anniflamma]

Reading some poetry by Rumi that he wrote to/about Shams… Remember, guys! All that gay stuff is just metaphors!

"I became his flute and started crying when his lips touched me. I was blindly searching for his hand while all the while he was holding mine."

Like I said… It's just a metaphor for friendship!

[rose1water]

I searched and searched; He was not on the Cross. I went to the temple, No trace was visible there. I entered the mountain cave of Hira, and found it empty. I went to the Ka'ba, but He was not in that exalted court. I gazed into my own heart; There I saw Him; He was no where else.

— Shams Tabrizi, “Searching for God”

[arabdoll]

“For your faith to be rock solid your heart needs to be as light as a feather.”

Tabrizi

[entheognosis]

A life without love is of no account. Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, eastern or western…divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The universe turns differently when fire loves water.

Shams Tabrizi

[kamala-laxman]

Instead of resisting change, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think, ‘My life will be upside down’, don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside? Shams Tabrizi

[coloursoflovelustlife]

Very much looking forward to this one.

[be-a-muslim-1st]

[orchidwoes]

"I choose to love you in silence,

For in silence I find no rejection.

I choose to love you in loneliness,

For in loneliness no one owns you but me.

I choose to adore you from a distance,

For distance will shield me from pain.

I choose to kiss you in the wind,

For the wind is gentler than my lips.

I choose to hold you in my dreams,

For in my dreams, you have no end."

"من دوست داشتم تو را در سکوت دوست بدارم ، زیرا هیچ انکار نمی شود. من دوست داشتم تو را در تنهایی دوست داشته باشم ، زیرا در آن تنهایی فقط به من تعلق داری. بوسه هایی را که به تو می دهم به باد رها می کنم. باد آنها را به ارمغان می آورد با من ملایم تر از من دستهای تو را در رویاهایم می گیرم."

[holyfigtree]

~ selected poems from divan-e-shams tabrizi, by rumi (trans. reynold nicholson)

[heartcosmicsoul]

"Intellect and love are made of different materials. Intellect ties people in knots and risks nothing, but love dissolves all tangles and risks everything. Intellect is always cautious and advises, 'Beware too much ecstasy', whereas love says, 'Oh, never mind! Take the plunge!' Intellect does not easily break down, whereas love can effortlessly reduce itself to rubble. But treasures are hidden among ruins. A broken heart hides treasures."

-Shams Tabrizi

[anniflamma]

Yes !! A question for you my friend !

I saw a post of yours showing a rumi quote about shams and you said in the tags that the first translation was released in 2006 , if you don't mind could you give me the name of the book poems or anything I can find about them?

For scientific reasons ofc

You've come to the right place, my friend! But I need to correct something: the book that was released in 2006 is The Forbidden Rumi. That one is a collection of poems that were banned when the Islamic world started to become more like the British Victorians cuz they can't help themselves to ruin everyting. Essentially, all poems that were too 'sensual' or too gay were put on the top corner shelf, hoping no one would notice them. So it wasn't until 2006 that someone actually translated them into English. However, other Rumi poems have had English translations since the 1760s.

I bought a book called Rumi: Unseen Poems, which was released in 2019, translated by Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz. In that collection, they specifically picked poems that had never been translated into English before, and of course, many of them are really gay. So it follows the same motivation as The Forbidden Rumi. Also, in that post where I counted every single time Rumi mentioned Shams.... yeah, that wasn’t even all of them… The guy just won’t stop gushing about him!

[maslimanny]

A life without love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The universe turns differently when fire loves water.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Destiny doesn’t mean that your life has been strictly predetermined. Therefore, to leave everything to fate and to not actively contribute to the music of the universe is a sign of sheer ignorance. The music of the universe is all-pervading and it is composed on forty different levels. Your destiny is the level where you will play your tune. You might not change your instrument but how well to play is entirely in your hands. Rumi - Shams Tabrizi and The Forty Rules of Love

[Guillaume Gris]

— with Ruslana Kovalynskaya.