Friday, July 11, 2014


O lovers! O lovers! I turn dust into jewel.
O musicians! I fill your instruments with gold.
O thirsty ones, I shall be the water-bearer today;
And I turn this dry dusty land into paradise, into the river Kawsar.
O lonely ones, relief has come!
I turn everyone afflicted with sadness into a king.
O the elixir, look at me! 
For I turn a hundred convents into mosques,
a hundred gallows into pulpits.
O unbelievers, I shall release you all;
For I am in full command, I give faith and I take it away.

Rumi_Divan 1374:1-5


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