Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love.
By my passion of love for Love
I have ground sweet as sugar.
O furious Wind, I am only a straw before you;
How could I know where I w...
O you who've gone on pilgrimage -
where are you, where, oh where?
Here, here is the Beloved!
Oh come now, come, oh come!
Your friend, he is your neighbor,
he is next to your wall -
You, erring in the d...
My face free of sorrow,
my mouth full of wine,
my clothes torn off my body.
Look what you’ve done to me now.
He says, "That’s what I do.
I tear away the layers.
I melt the shame.
...
You play with the great globe of union,
you that see everyone so clearly
and cannot be seen. Even universal
intelligence gets blurry when it thinks
you may leave. You came here alone,
but you create hundreds o...
When the rose is gone and the garden faded
you will no longer hear the nightingale's song.
The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil.
The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing.
If love withholds its str...
Both light and shadow
are the dance of Love.
Love has no cause;
it is the astrolabe of God’s secrets.
Lover and Loving are inseparable
and timeless. Although I may try to describe Love
when I expe...
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
May it be sweet milk,
this marriage, like wine and halvah.
May this marriage offer fruit and shade
like the date palm.
May this marriage be full of ...
The moon has become a dancer
at this festival of love.
This dance of light,
This sacred blessing,
This divine love,
beckons us
to a world beyond
only lovers can see
with their eyes of fier...
That moon, which the sky ne'er,
saw even in dreams,
has returned And brought a fire,
no water can quench.
See the body' s house, and see my. soul,
This made drunken and that,...
Turn me like a waterwheel turning a millstone.
Plenty of water, a Living River.
Keep me in one place and scatter the love.
Leaf-moves in wind, straw drawn toward amber,
all parts of the world are in love,
but the...
Last night, I was lying on the rooftop,
thinking of you. I saw a special Star,
and summoned her to take you a message.
I prostrated myself to the Star,
and asked her to take my prostration
to that Sun...
Should Love's heart rejoice unless I burn?
For my heart is Love's dwelling.
If You will burn Your house, burn it, Love!
Who will say, 'It's not allowed'?
Burn this house thoroughly!
The lov...
The lover's food is the love of the bread;
no bread need be at hand:
no one who is sincere in his love,
love is a slave to existence.
Lovers have nothing to do with with with existence;
lovers have the int...
Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love.
By my passion of love for Love
I have ground sweet as sugar.
O furious Wind, I am only a straw before you;
How could I know where I will b...
There is a smile and a gentleness inside. When I learned the name
and address of that, I went to where you sell perfume. I begged you not
