Rumi : The Big Red Book : The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship

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Contents
Introduction
	Rumi’s Life
	The Soul Essence of Shams Tabriz
Part I: Odes (Ghazals)
	1. Al-Fattah, The Opener
		Jars of Springwater
		God in the Stew
		Undressing
		Flightpaths
		Mountaintop Trough
		Open Window
		A Northern Wind
		Entrance Door
		The Opener
		The Source of Joy
		The Silent Articulation of a Face
		Cry Out Your Grief
		The Heart Acts as Translator
		We Are Tired of Secret Joy
		Fasting
		In the Arc of Your Mallet
		The Torrent Leaves
		Locked Out of Life
		Granite and Glass
		A Garden is Questioning the Dawn
		What a Fine Song
		Soul Spring
	2. Al-Jami, The Gatherer
		Everyone Outdoors Talking
		A Story They Know
		The Meeting
		Leaving
		We Are the Sun
		Uncle of the Jar
		Asylum
		A Delicate Girl
		Blade
		Strange Gathering
		Keep Moving
		Trees
		Walking Out of the Treasury Building
		Keeper of Secrets
		The Shop
		The Wine Vat’s Lid
		The Waterwheel
		A Community of the Spirit
		No Ordinary Friendship
		At Home in Both Places
	3. Al-Batin, The Hidden
		The Living Doubleness
		Green from Inside
		Saladin2
		Harvest
		See What You Have Despised in Yourself
		Climb to the Execution Place
		To the Extent They Can Die
		Broom Work
		Back into the Reedbed
		Bowls of Food
		You So Hidden
		The Tent
		Privacy
		This Splashing Around
		Drum
		Wherever He is Moving
		This Soup
		What the Sun Says Rising
	4. Al-Khabir, The Aware, The Knowing
		The Knots Untie
		Solomon Ant
		Water from the Well of the Soul
		Talking to the Luck-Bird
		A Beautiful Walk Inside You
		More Range
		Knowledge beyond Love
		Cup
		Sour, Doughy, Numb, and Raw
		Someone Being Drawn to You
		A New-Green Branch
		The Oldest Thirst there is
		The Reed Flute’s Work
		Roselit Piece of Shell
		A Bowl
		Unfold Your Own Myth
		Bismillah
	5. Al-Bari, The Maker from Nothing
		Two Days of Silence
		Soul Houses
		One Being Inside All
		You Make Your Own Oil as You Cook
		What is Inside the Ground
		Two Donkeys
		Spring Drumming Again
		Go Behind the Screen
		The Mill
		The Elusive Ones
		A Garden Where the House Was
		After Being in Love, the Next Responsibility
		Thornbush Music
		Spindrift
		Spillings
	6. Al-Hayy, The Living
		The Verge of Tears
		Entering the Shell
		A Mixed-Breed Apple
		Desolation
		Choose a Suffering
		The Death of Saladin
		The Music We Are
		Glory to Mutabilis
		The Most Alive Moment
		It is All Laughing
		The Reply
		The Diver’s Clothes Lying Empty
		With You Here Between
		A Bit of Embroidery
		Your Love Reveals Your Beauty
		The Wood and the Flames, Still Talking
		The Day I Die
		Old, Yet Freshly Begun
		Never Quite as Alive
	7. Al-Haqq, The Truth
		Hamza’s Nothing
		Another Invitation
		Miles of Riverside Canebrake
		Alive with Scripture
		You Shall Not See Me
		A Brightening Floor
		Wind That Mixes with Your Fire
		Not Intrigued with Evening
		A Lion Looking for Laughter
		The Face
		Greed and Generosity
		The Rights of Crying
		The Other Thing
		My Worst Habit
		Soul and Friend
	8. As-Salaam, Peace
		Calm in the Midst of Lightning
		A Mountain Nest
		Full Sun
		Begin
		A Clean Sandy Spot
		A Vague Trace
		Talking through the Door
		Look, Fish
		In Prison
		Rumi’s Deathbed Poem
		The Beloved Night
		Quietness
		Sanai
		Spring is Christ
		Red Shirt
		Not a Day on Any Calendar
		The Least Figure
	9. Ar-Rahim, The Compassionate
		I See My Beauty in You
		Your Morning Shade
		The Wave of That Agreement
		The Faint Lament of Form
		Evidence
		Evening Sky Garnet Red
		This Battered Saucepan
		The Mystery of the Way
		Champion Lovemaker and Leader of Men
		The Buddhist Sufi
		Up to the Neck
		Open Your Mouth to This Wind
		Wetness and Water
		Out of the Image-Making Business
		Flutes for Dancing
		Wax
		The Many Appeals of the Color Red
	10. An-Nur, Light
		The Light Inside the Face
		A Walking Fire
		The Shine in the Fields
		More of Your Names
		Daring Enough to Finish
		Inhale Autumn, Long for Spring
		Ocean Light
		Soul Light and Sun the Same
		The Generations I Praise
		Sneezing Out Animals
		The Importance of Setting Out
		Waking Up, Dawn Music
		Move into the Sun
		The Ocean Moving All Night
		A Cleared Site
		Some Kiss
		Sticks Full of Light
		Sunlight
		Wet and Dry
		One Drop
		Passage into Silence
	11. Ash-Shakur, The Grateful
		Underwater in the Fountain
		Drowsy
		So We Can Have What We Want
		Every Tree
		Doorsill
		What Fear of Loss?
		Is This a Place Where Stories Are Acted Out?
		The Sun’s Glowing Castiron Mold
		Preparing the Pen
		How You Became What You Are Now
		Bonfire at Midnight
		A Ripe Fig
		The Deepest Rest
		Stingy Aloes Wood
		Sweet Outlaws
		A Grape
		Shams’s Air
		Content with Ignorance
		The New Moon
	12. Al-Latif, The Subtle, The Intricate
		What is Not Here
		Raw, Well-Cooked, and Burnt
		Why and Where We Go
		Word Fog
		Leaves about to Let Go
		Spilled Speech
		The Dance of Your Hidden Life
		Hunt Music
		An Ointment Mixed with Earth
		If You Want to Live in Your Soul
		Spring
		Lost Camel
		The Nightwatchman
		Strange Business
		Phrase Your Question
		Lies from Each Other
		I Am the Ground
		We Are Three
	13. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
		A Transparent Tree
		Silkworms
		A Voice through the Door
		A Great Rose Tree
		A Light within His Light
		Pure Silence
		A Waking Town
		Walkingstick Dragon
		Let the Way Itself Arrive
		Mounted Man
		Clouds
		Language is a Tailor’s Shop Where Nothing Fits
		Only One Sunrise a Day
		That Moment Again
		I Have Such a Teacher
		The Snow-World Melts
		Wind That Tastes of Bread and Salt
		A Thirsty Fish
		A Waterbird Flying into the Sun
	14. Osho
		Friday
		Musk in a Small Box
		A Hundred and One
		A Man Talking to His House
		The Time of Divulging
		Holiday Without Limits
		We Cannot Decide
		I Pass by the Door
		Joseph
		No Discussion
		Burnt Kabob
		Our Turn
		Love’s Nightcap
		Answers from the Elements
		Say Yes Quickly
		Basra Dates
		Raggedness
		See Where it Comes from
		The Oven’s Question
	15. Ramana Maharshi
		Would You Bow?
		I Am Not This
		I Met One Traveling
		The Only Obligation
		Struck Tent
		Empty Boat
		Infidel Fish
		When Your Secret is Spoken
		Baby Pigeon
		An Egypt That does Not Exist
		Be Melting Snow
		Wandering Wilderness
		Come Back, My Friend
		I Am More the Way You Are
		A Closed Jar
		Almost in Sight
	16. Dissolving the Concept of “God”
		A Question
		The Taste of Morning
		You Are as You Are
		Thorn Witness
		The Self We Share
		Stranded Somewhere
		Let the Soup Simmer
		Like a Fig
		Winter or Summer
		Whereabouts Unknown
		Drawn by Soup
		The Last of Your Wine
		I Am Not
		This Love Which is Made of Our Love for Emptiness
		The Whole Place Goes Up
		Flood Residue
		Spoken Things
		Sleep
		This Night of Talking
		Your Presence
		At That Meeting
		A Walk You Can Take
		Headless Camels
	17. Playing
		Playing and Being Played
		Inside the Rose
		As the Sky does in Water
		Seeds and Rain
		One Thing I Did Wrong
		Hometown Streets
		Pictures of the Soul
		Border Stations
		No More the Presence
		Givens
		I Keep Using Two Pronouns
		Your Old Aunt and Uncle
		This Praising Sound
		When Completely Naked
		Friends with Sunlight
		I’M Not Saying This Right
		The Steambath
	18. Shams Tabriz: The Friend
		The Friend
		An Invisible Bee
		A Grainy Taste
		The Mirror Between Us
		The Pleiades
		Parinda, the One Who Flies Away
		The One Who Left
		Avalanche
		Your Turn at Dice
		Back to Being
		Your Face
		The Sweet Blade of Your Anger
		Soul, Heart, and Body One Morning
		What I Say Makes Me Drunk
		Any Chance Meeting
		Sitting Together
		I Throw it All Away
		A King Dressed as a Servant
		The Spirit-Lion in a Human Being
		Sun and Sky
		A Mystic and a Drunk
		A Cave Where Shams Tabriz is Resting
		A Lantern
		A Gift for Shams
		This Ink
		Conversation at Night
	19. Tenderness Toward Existence
		Prayer
		A General Introductory Lecture
		An Armor of Roses
		Both Worlds
		Autumn Rose Elegy
		This High Meadow
		Granted
		Abraham and Isaac
		I Ask One More Thing
		Forth
		Fourteen Questions
		Refuge
		What Happens to Seeds Inside their Prisons
		A Line of Clouds
		The Image of Your Body
		Infinitesimal Dust
		The Elegance of the Ermine
		Night and Candle
		This Out of Control
		Wandering and Coming Back
		Stay in a Listening Posture
	20. As-Sabur, The Patient
		Disciplines
		Continuously
		Fierce Courtesy
		What Have You Been Drinking?
		Look at a Fountain
		Sick of Scripture
		Two Human-Sized Wedding Candles
		We Prescribe a Friend
		Wretched, But Laughing
		I Am Inside Your Thirst
		The Bottle is Corked
		Your First Eyes
		You Never Left
		Who is the Friend?
		Morning Talk
		The Ground Cries Out
	21. Ar-Rahman, The Kind
		As Lakewater Rises into Mist
		A Smile and a Gentleness
		New Blossoms
		The Talking
		Green Writ
		Saladin’s Leaving
		Feet Becoming Head
		Both Wings Broken
		Blessing the Marriage
		Wake and Walk Out
		Auction
		Scatterbrain Sweetness
		One Who Can Quit Seeing Himself
		Talking in the Night
		Maybe They Are Shy
		Folded into the River
		Dissolver of Sugar
		How Finite Minds Most Want to Be
		Buoyancy
		Black Tulip
		Ramadan Silence
	22. Al-Mutakabbir, The Majesty
		Birds Nesting Near the Coast
		The Bright Core of Failure
		Outdoors and the Passion of the Grass
		The Pattern Improves
		This is Enough
		Remember Egypt
		Love Dervishes
		Say I Am You
		Inward Sky
		As Ripeness Comes
		Limb-Shadows
		A Springlike Night in Mid-December
		Freshness
		The Burning Ocean
		Entirely Jewels
		A New Kind of Waking
		Angry at the Road, at God
	23. As-Sami, The Hearing
		Tambourine Feet
		A World Dense with Greeting
		Even Better
		Music is My Zikr
		Listening
		Earsight
		Asleep and Listening
		Inside Shams’s Universe
		We No Longer See the One Who Teaches Us
		Music Loosens Deafness
		Not a Food Sack, a Reed Flute
		New Light on the Ground
		More of What We Say
		A Frog Deep in the Presence
		A Well-Baked Loaf
		Sing Loud
		The Joy of the Sun
		Eyes That Love Sunset
	24. Al-Basir, The Seeing
		I See the Face
		Ashes, Wanderers
		Wooden Walkingstick
		What I See in Your Eyes
		As Fish Drink the Ocean
		Too Vast for Partnership
		The Breast My Heart Nurses
		Cooked Heads
		Cuisine and Sex
		The Flower’s Eye
		Breaking Loose
		No Way to Compare
		Someone Digging in the Ground
		Let’s Go Home
		An Empty Garlic
		No Room for Form
	25. Al-Wadud, The Loving
		More is Required
		What is the Heart?
		Secret Places
		No Expectations
		Gone for Good
		I Rocked My Own Chest
		Midnight and Sunrise
		Watch a One-Year-Old
		Roses Underfoot
		Wilder than We Ever
		Not Here
		One Swaying Being
		A Trace
		Fresh Roots
		Let the Letter Read You
		Start Your Lives Over
		What Would I Be?
		Shuttles
		Like This
		Low in the Roots
		Lost in You
	26. Everything and Everyone Else
		Hallaj
		Spring Murmur
		Fastened to a Pole
		Any Sprig of an Herb
		Currency
		A Preposterous Guess
		The Value of This Moment
		Two Lovings
		The Creation Word
		Amazed Mouth
		Mashallah
		Come Horseback
		Yhu
		Form is Ecstatic
		Grace Got Confused
		The Moon-Shaped Threshing Floor
		Every Detail Shows How That One is in Love
		There is Nothing Ahead
		Unmarked Boxes
		Sometimes I Forget Completely
		No Need to Ask
		All Rivers Moving at Once
		Drunk with the Whole
		Kiss of Solitude
		The Face
		One Being, and Separate Beings Too
	27. The Name That Cannot Be Spoken or Written
		In Love That Long
		Hoofbeats
		Ready for Silence
		Empty
		Music and Silence
		Pieces of a Broken Cup
		Solomon and the Wind of Speaking
		Pearl
		A Ship Gliding Over Nothing
		There You Are
		This Disaster
		Astrological Bickerings
		The Nothing of Roselight
		A New Idea
		The Sky of the Brain
		Only Breath
		Who Says Words with My Mouth?
		Silver Coins
		Daybreak
		Nearer than Your Jugular
		Qualities and a Blue-Green Sea
		Spaciousness
		The Exuberant Confusion
		A Bowl Thrown Out
		The Arrival
		Zero Circle
Part II: Quatrains (Rubai)
	28. Taurus: The Bull
	29. Ursa Major: The Great Bear, the Big Dipper
	30. Corona Borealis: The Northern Crown
	31. Libra: The Scales
	32. Gemini: The Twins, Castor and Pollux
	33. Cancer: The Crab
	34. Cassiopeia: The Queen
	35. Virgo: The Virgin
	36. Orion: The Hunter
	37. Leo: The Lion
	38. The Milky Way: Our Home Address Seen from the Side
	39. Bijou: The Black Hole
	40. Columba: Noah’s Dove
	41. Draco: The Dragon
	42. Capricorn: The Sea Goat
	43. Hercules: The Hero
	44. Pegasus: The Winged Horse
	45. Lepus: The Hare
	46. Canis Major: The Great Dog
	47. Boötes: The Herdsman
	48. Aries: The Ram
	49. Delphinus: The Dolphin
	50. Cetus: The Sea Monster, or Kraken
	51. Andromeda: The Chained Queen
	52. Scorpio: The Scorpion
	53. Sagittarius: The Archer
	54. Pisces: The Fish
Notes
Note on These Translations
Index of Familiar First Lines
Acknowledgments
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