Come, come again, whoever you are, come!
Heathen, fire worshipper or idolatrous, come!
Come even you broke your penitence a hundred times,
Ours is the portal of hope, come as you are.
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“Our mother is love! Our father is love!
We are born from love! We are love!
All loves constitute a bridge leading to the divine love.
To love human beings means to love GOD.”
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“Come, come over, more over, how long this brigandage? As you are me and I am you. How long this discrimination of you and I? We are light of GOD! Why this separation among us?Why light escapes from light? We are all from the same yeast, our brains and heads too.But under this bowed sky we see double…”
Mevlana
About Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Jalal is famed rather as the chief exponent and teacher of Sufism than as a poet. He became the founder of the sect of “whirling dervishes,” or Maulavi [or Mehlavi]. He was born in Afghanistan, the far Eastern Persian land, in 1207, and died in the Turkish domains of Asia Minor, or Rumi, in 1273. His father was a noted Sufi teacher who was driven by persecution to flee from his Afghanistan home, taking his young son with him. Jalal, when only twenty-four, succeeded to his learned father’s headship of the great center of learning in Asia Minor, and with youthful enthusiasm spread his impassioned Sufi doctrines far and wide. We are told that in his house there was a central pillar, and that when Jalal was “drowned in the ocean of love,” he would take hold of that pillar and set himself turning round it, and improvising his frenzied poetry. When the more conservative Muslims remonstrated with Jalal because his Maulavis danced and sang, even at funerals, Jalal responded “When the human spirit, after years of imprisonment in the cave and dungeon of the body, is at length set free, and wings its flight to the source whence it came, is this not an occasion for rejoicings, thanks, and dancing?” Jalal’s religious exposition of Sufism is mainly contained in his “Masnavi”, an enormous poetic work in six books, comprising almost 30,000 couplets. The following are selections from that work.
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