“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?
This is my own translation, and it is not official Baha’I translation. In the name of God, the Almighty My sweet soul may the Almighty
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,