30-03-2014, 12:21 AM
I said to my heart, "How, my heart,
Can you be so crazy
As to swerve from the service
Of the One you bless?"
My heart replied, "It is you who are mad
To see me wrongly –
I am always in His service,
It is you that stray."
- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)
Can you be so crazy
As to swerve from the service
Of the One you bless?"
My heart replied, "It is you who are mad
To see me wrongly –
I am always in His service,
It is you that stray."
- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)