Sunday, December 17, 2017
Rumi's Wedding Night
Rumi's Wedding Night
I don't know what I can tell you
that you don't already know.
Indeed we are spirits located
in these temporary vessels
of flesh.
We two communicate,
but we are not the same.
When one takes ill,
the other suffers.
When one experiences joy,
the other celebrates.
But that is for now.
Overall we must remember
that what is real
is this divine flow,
the bliss that is the universe,
the reality that loves and
and whom we love in return.
At the end,
we will, like Rumi,
celebrate our wedding night
with the eternal,
shed our flesh garment
and know reunion with the source
of all that we call our world,
Pilgrims still visit his tomb.
It is said that the energies of rapture
and sweet perfume of prayers
fill the air around
as if from circling angels
and each pilgrim is exalted,
knows that they are blessed.
Dorothy Walters
December 17, 2017
(image from internet)
Rumi's "Wedding Night"
by Ibrahim Gamard, 12/98 (revised 12/00, 11/02, 12/08)
The night of December 17, is the (solar) anniversary of the death of Jalâluddîn Rûmî, who died in 1273 in Konya, Turkey (which for many centuries had been known as "Rûm," the Anatolian peninsula long ruled by "Rome," meaning the Eastern Roman, and then Byzantine, Empire). The observance of the anniversary of a sufi saint is called (in Arabic), `urs, which means "wedding," because the saint is believed to have attained "union" (or utmost nearness together with other saints and the prophets) with God, the Only Beloved.
