posted June 03, 2008 03:26 PM         

I am happy even before I have a reason.

I am full of Light even before the sky
Can greet the sun or the moon.

Dear companions,
We have been in love with God
For so very, very long.

What can Hafiz now do but
Forever
Dance!

The Only One

From man�s perspective

In this intricate game of love,

It is so easy to become confused

And think you are the do-er.

But from God�s Infinite Certainty,

He always Knows

That He is the only One

Who should ever be put on trial.

posted June 03, 2008 03:29 PM         

Now is the time to know
That all that you do is sacred.

Now, why not consider
A lasting truce with yourself and God.

Now is the time to understand
That all your ideas of right and wrong
Were just a child's training wheels
To be laid aside
When you finally live
With veracity
And love.

Hafiz is a divine envoy
Whom the Beloved
Has written a holy message upon.

My dear, please tell me,
Why do you still
Throw sticks at your heart
And God?

What is it in that sweet voice inside
That incites you to fear?

Now is the time for the world to know
That every thought and action is sacred.

This is the time
For you to compute the impossibility
That there is anything
But Grace.

Now is the season to know
That everything you do
Is sacred.

� Hafiz (translated by Daniel Landinsky)

posted June 03, 2008 03:30 PM         

A tree beside the sandy
River-beach
Holds up its topmost boughs
Like fingers towards the skies
They cannot reach,
Earth-bound, heaven-amorous.

This is the soul of man.
Body and brain
Hungry for earth
our heavenly flight detain.

posted June 03, 2008 07:55 PM         

Call the roller of big cigars,

The muscular one, and bid him whip

In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.

Let the wenches dawdle in such dress

As they are used to wear, and let the boys

Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.

Let be be finale of seem.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal.

Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet

On which she embroidered fantails once

And spread it so as to cover her face.

If her horny feet protrude, they come

To show how cold she is, and dumb.

Let the lamp affix its beam.

posted June 03, 2008 08:38 PM         

Great find NosiS

26t,

I thought you may enjoy similar inspirations from Hafiz. I use it for personal contemplations and Inspiration!

The process is called "fal e Hafez", or the divination of
Hafiz.

http://www.hafizonlove.com/fal.htm

Enjoy and do share if so inspired.

love,juni

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

posted June 04, 2008 03:40 AM         

When I think of Sufi mystics, Masters, and poets I "feel"... Songs, reflections, dancing and mirrors...it's the Faith of Love and Music...
the little I know about it anyway......for now at least.

Hafiz really sings to me, so does Attar
and Rumi.
And I must say I have you to thank. Even if that doesnt make much sense to you...

I didnt have a question in mind
so I kept You there and clicked the Fal...

Ghazal 492

Salutations to the day of friendship�s delight
To the pupils that have seen the light.
Greeting the heart of the righteous, bright,
To the candle of the sanctuary of the right.
(love that! )

From among my friends, I see none remain
Bring wine for my heart, bleeding, contrite.
From the abode of the Magi don�t turn away
There, you will find the key to your plight.
Bride of the World, in goodness, extreme
Has taken infidelity to extreme height.
If my tired heart has no more resolve,
From heavy hearted will seek no respite.
Where do they sell that intoxicating wine
So false piety I can leave, and take flight.
Unfaithful friends broke their promises
As though it was in their own spite.
If you let me, O spirit of avarice
In begging clothes I�ll rule with kingly might.
I�ll teach you the alchemy that causes bliss
From bad friends take flight, take flight.

Hafiz be content with the hardships of fate
In your night, divine light is out of your sight.

posted June 04, 2008 03:45 AM         

& My Friend, who has given me deeper insight into Friendship.

Ghazal 60

posted June 07, 2008 08:07 AM         

Hafiz feels like an old Friend revisited and I`m happy to share his fal e Hafez
with another old Friend!

love,juni

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~
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

posted June 08, 2008 01:37 PM         

One more breath, my fate is at stake
Alas, my good fortune does not wake.
Morning breeze blew Her dust in my eye
I cannot see from the tears and the ache.
I cannot embrace and hug your body, why?
My most ardent wishes I must break.
Only with the Beloved, I can be & can try
No other labor can I undertake.
Only from your hair some good news I can pry
Else, from strangers, there's no news I can take.
Ardently, sincerely, a thousand prayers I let fly
What use, not even one in my world I can make.
Enough sharing my heart with the morning breeze's sigh
With my luck tonight, not even the dawn will break.
I spend my whole life in pursuit till I die
Yet misfortunes of your hair I cannot shake.
Hafiz & his heart, everyone must forsake
Has hidden himself within your wave & wake.

posted June 08, 2008 01:38 PM         

- Attar

posted June 08, 2008 01:42 PM         

So you sigh in front of mirrors
and cloud the surface.

It's better to keep your breath cold.
Hold it, like a diver does in the ocean.
One slight movement, the mirror-image goes.

Don't be dead or asleep or awake.
Don't be anything.

What you most want,
what you travel around wishing to find,
lose yourself as lovers lose themselves,
and you'll be that.

- Attar

posted June 08, 2008 01:43 PM         

Myself as simply me. I burn with love

Unto myself, and bury me in love.

The centre is within me and its wonder

Lies as a circle everywhere about me.

Joy! Joy! No mortal thought can fathom me.

I am the merchant and the pearl at once.

Lo, Time and Space lie crouching at my feet.

Joy! Joy! When I would reveal in a rapture.

I plunge into myself and all things know.

- Attar

Translated by Margaret Smith

From: The Persian mystics

posted June 08, 2008 01:46 PM         

Love adorns itself;
it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty.

- Tagore

~

Love does not claim possession,
but gives freedom.

Tagore

~

I shall love the whole world,
But I shall control
Only myself.

- Sri Chinmoy