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Yama Enayat
Yama Enayat
What human rights mean to me
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For me human right is to discover the core of human life--love or the lack thereof. Whether poor or rich, uneducated or highly educated, belonging to this or that religion or nationality, a person's loneliness, longing, separation, fulfillment, happiness or simply being able to be peacefully alone.

Please read one of Rumi's most famous poems about the reed-flute:

Song of the Reed Flute:
Mathnawi, or Rhymed Couplet
This recording is of the first four lines of Rumi’s Mathnawi. This prologue is sometimes called “The Song of the Reed Flute,” and describes the origin of the soul’s love — its innate desire to return to the unity of its homeland, its place of origin.
In the mathnawi form, each half-verse rhymes, and the rhyme changes with each new verse. Because of this flexibility in rhyme, the mathnawi form was often used for longer, epic works — and for teaching works.


Dari (Persian) Text

bishnu az nay chun hikayat mikunad
az juda’iha shikayat mikunad

kaz nayistan ta mara bubridah’and
dar nafiram mard u zan nalidah’and

sinah khwaham sharhah sharhah az firaq
ta biguyam sharh-i dard-i ishtiyaq

har kasi ku dur mand az asl-i khwish
baz juyad ruzgar-i wasl-i khwish


English Translation

Listen to the reed flute,
its song of separation:
Ever since I was cut from the reed-bed,
men and women have moaned from my sound.
I need a heart torn by separation,
so you may understand the pain of love’s desire.
Whoever’s been taken from his home
always wishes to return.

All separations have the same tale, and Rumi, who likens himself to a flute cut from its source (you can call it God, happiness, home, peace, nature or simply the Beloved), takes us on a journey of love, longing, union and joy. This short poem indeed opens a window to the entire metaphysics of spiritual life.

Elsewhere, Mevlana Jalal-u-ddin Mohammad Balkhi-Rumi suggests:

In this earth
In this soil
In this pure field
Let us not plant any seeds
Other than seeds of compassion and love.

May 7, 2008 | 12:04 AM Comments  2 comments

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kirstenjordan Kirsten
May 7, 2008 | 8:19 AM

Very thoughtful piece!
Ceren Ceren Gergeroglu
May 11, 2008 | 1:22 PM

selam!

I love the philosophy of Mevlana!

thanks to share your ideas! really inspiring!

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