Such is the seeker of the court of God:
when God comes, the seeker is no more.
Although union with God is immortality upon immortality,
yet at first that immortality consists in dying to self.
The reflections that are seeking the Light
disappear when His Light appears.
How should reason remain when He bids it go?
Everything is perishing except His Face.*
Before His Face the existent and the nonexistent perish:
existence in nonexistence is truly a marvelous thing!
In this place of presence all minds are lost beyond control;
when the pen reaches this point, it breaks.
Hz Mawlana (ra)
— Mathnawi III:4658-4663
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
“Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance”
Threshold Books, 1996
*al-Qasas, 88( Qur’an)
darvish said:
Alhamdulillah! May Allah grant that we be such seekers also.
Ya Haqq!
Yafiah Katherine said:
Thank you brother, this is such powerful and clear wisdom from Hz. Mawlana (ra). It is also an excellent translation by the Helminskis.
I have just discovered your blog and I intend to return here often.
chaiwala said:
Yafiah,
thanks for your comment and you are always welcome.