“O You who are hidden within the hidden being of my existence.” ~Rumi
Compiled and written by: Nātiq Khamūsh (The Silent Speaker)
If you are freed from worldly attachments yet hear the unspoken secret,
Tell me: what was the inner sign of that Silent Speaker?
And if, like Jonah, you were freed from the prison of fish and sea,
Tell me—what was the meaning of that sea, its waves, and its raging?
Iran’s 1,400-Year Cultural Resistance: Language, Identity, and the Poets Who Kept a Civilization Alive I. Prologue: A Civilization Under Siege In the year 651 CE,
Close your lips like a bud upon the path of a newborn child,And listen—from the cypress and the lily—to the stories of freedom. In July
In this ghazal, the exalted station of the human being is explained, and God calls the believers unto Himself. Beloved, how long will you remain
The Meeting with Bahá’u’lláh in the Prison of the Most Great Prison (Sijn-i-A‘ẓam) As we know, in the spiritual realms there is no time or
This ghazal proclaims the glad tidings of the advent of the Promised One of all religions. How fortunate is the one whom God has called
The Beloved, in the End of Time, has fashioned a kind of revelry:Inwardly He is utmost seriousness, outwardly He appears as play. Here, “the Beloved”
Rumi getting an invitation to the Heaven he decided to go: A letter arrived from that world, calling me to return;I resolve to go back,
The world captured my light, look into my eyes,They named me “Baha”, though I am indeed precious.No one has tasted this food, nor taken a
This beautiful ghazal alludes to the advent of the Blessed Beauty and celebrates the declaration of His Mission within its verses. The King has arrived,
Here, Rumi gives glad-tidings of the advent of the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh, who come together. If the soul of the lover breathes even once,it will