what love can do...


محبت

از محبت تلخ ها شيرين شـــــود ....... از محبت مسّ ها زرّين شــــــود
از محبت دردها صافي شــــــود ....... وز محبت دردها شافي شــــــود
از محبت خارها گل مي شـــــود ....... وز محبت، سركه ها مُل مي شــود
از محبت، سجن گلشن مي شــود ........ بي محبت، روضه، گلخن مي شـود
از محبت، نار، نوري مي شـــــود ....... وز محبت ديو حوري مي شــــود
از محبت، سنگ، روغن مي شــود ....... بي محبت، موم، آهن مي شــــود
از محبت، حزن، شادي مي شــود ....... وز محبت، غول، هادي مي شــود
از محبت، نيش، نوشي مي شـــود ........ وز محبت، شير موشي مي شـــود
از محبت، سقم، صحّت مي شــود ........ وز محبت، قهر، رحمت مي شــود
از محبت، مرده زنده مي شـــــود ......... وز محبت، شاه بنده مي شـــــود
ايــن محبت هم نتيجه دانش است ........ كــي گزافه بر چنين تختي نشست
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مولانا جلال الدین رومی

11 comments:

human being said...

this post is under construction...
:D

it takes some time to be prepared... thanks for your patience...
:)

Jon said...

LINKfound a poem by playing with a persian translator...

:)

Thanks for sharing this... would love to see what you're working on when you're done construction...

Harlequin said...

it is so visually compelling...thank you for this work in process...

human being said...

oh yes surely the curious intelligent Jon can solve any puzzle...
:)

thanks for the link... i didn't know about Annemarie Schimmel's translation... though i know her as a great critic on Rumi's works...

i also found some other translations on the web but none of them satisfied me... so i decided to translate it myself... i want to be as close as it is possible to Rumi... i want to find words that carry the same image and meaning... i want to avoid interpretation and explanation... and to be as succinct as he has been...

many of the words he's chosen contain several meanings and images... and translators usually stick to just one of them...

i'm working on this on my blog... each half line is a separate post... and i've tried to encourage friends to write about their impressions...

then i link them to the one which is here...

why i do this?

1. because i want to make the reader pause on each segment... so that the image might be recreated in her/his mind and be linked to his/her experiences...

2. i want to create a web here between this site, Rumi, and the rest of us... and if the links pass through my blog, it's just a kind of bridge, nothing more...

3. when i started to participate in your Beckette project, i felt the spirit of the project is weaving a net of ideas and thoughts around one central element (the text by Beckette) that was why all the time i tried to link to other friends' blogs and sites... and that's what i want to do again...

4. i want to return part of the beautiful things you bestowed upon your friends and readers through all your team projects on your blog(s) and here...
through your chain poems, chain stories, and other works, you contributed much to creating a higher consciousness and understanding...

5. everything is serious for me... when i am in a team work, it is part of me, i try my best to contribute to it... and to give what i have to it... to ALL people participating in it...

6. and i like it very much to explain about any of the things i do and might be ambiguous for others...

so i appreciated it very much to be questioned, to be corrected...

words can do a lot of magic, if we want...

human being said...

oh... thanks a lot, Harlequin...

Mariana Soffer said...

Completel7 agree with tbe phrase you put on top. Art needs constraints, it is impossible to paint starting from an empty canvas an no direction at all. But watch out cause we need some constraints, but not to many.

human being said...

dearest Mariana...

that phrase on top is by Jon (or pehaps chosen by him)... as this site is his... and all these you see here are fruits of his efforts... here i'm just one of the contributors...


and to tell you the truth i do not believe in that phrase... creativity to me is "to paint starting from an empty canvas and no direction at all"...
:D

i agree that creativity CAN ALSO exist within constraints... but i do not believe that constraints cause it to exist... or without them, it perishes...

personally i have done lots of experiments... i have imposed lots of constraints upon my thoughts, my words...my creativity... and noticed that my creativity continues to exist... even at times it flourishes...

but...

it is not caused by them... it exists and has come to being because of something else... before even confronting the constraints...

creativity exists just because we have free will... and we can think about and choose what others have not...



love to you...

Mariana Soffer said...

human: I completely respect what you think, I found some words I exchanged with a paintor and to say my idea more precisely even dough I know you do not agree here it is
"The need to cope with hard things is a kind of constraint.
It turns out that great artists choose to constrain themselves all the time. (for example use only two colors for painting) Innovation comes from constraint. And most of us aren’t smart enough to know what to do with a blank canvas."
and he goes:

"For me, feeling free from constraint can sometimes allow me to 'make progress'... And sometimes the constraints aren't predetermined, but arise in the act of working through a problem. Sometimes it's a case of 'policy on the run'!"

Anywat I think your theory is more hopeful than mine, more fulfilling.

If you want to check some random thoughts arround the subject see>
http://apperceptual.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/math-and-art-differences-and-similarities/

Love to you too
M

Jon said...

I don't agree 100% with the "creativity and constraints" idea at the top either...

but it's a project, isn't it... makes me talk about all this stuff...

i suppose that my problem is that i always want to make the 'stuff' fun and the 'fun' 'relavent'...

it's a curse...

Jon said...

I will come back and say more on these lines another day... but not today...

I can't do it now...

and I can't erase anything either...

human being said...

ssssssssssssssssssss
tuffffffffffffffffff

so tough!

where's the fun? to balance?


so your method is divine...



a curse is a cure...

just drop the 's'




with love curse becomes a cure...



but how? what is love? how this happens? what is that 's' that should be dropped? the answer is in the last line of Rumi's poem...


sorry i neglected this post... i will put up the rest of it soon...

i was not feeling very well... witnessing all this cruelty... and didn't like to work on this while i wasn't in a good mood... but now i think i should pick it up again... perhaps it can help me to heal... to be cured... though i wonder if this pain can ever be cured at all!

(Rumi says except death there is another pain that can never be cured...)




thanks for reminding me...
i'll be back soon
please pray for the crow and her country...
for humanity...