I memorized this long poem as a kid and still stamped in my memory! When you translate into English, it loses all the rhyming and rhythm, but Rumi poetry are so profound and very deep in Erfan and love and it takes you to the next level of humanity! Good job and good luck with such video clips!
"Listen to the reed and the tale it tells, how it sings of separation. Ever since they cut me off from the reed bed, my wail has caused men and women to weep. I long for a heart that is torn open with longing so that I might share the pain of this love. Whoever has been parted from his source longs to return to that state of union. At every gathering I play my lament, I am a friend to both happy and sad. Each befriended me for his own reasons, but none sort out the secrets I contain. My secret is not different from my lament, but this is not for anyone to see. The body is not separate from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, but the soul is not for anyone to see. This flute is played with fire, not with wind, and without this fire you would not exist. It is the fire of love that inspires the flute, it is the ferment of love that completes the wine. The reed is a comfort to all estranged lovers, it's music tears our veils away. Have you ever seen a poison or antidote like the reed? Have you ever seen a more infinite companion and lover? It sings of the path of blood, it relates the passion of Majun. Only to the senseless is this sense confided. Does the tounge have any patron but the ear? Our days grow more unreasonable. These days which mix with grief and pain. But if the days that remain are few, let them go; it doesn't matter. But You, You remain, for nothing is as pure as You are. All but the fish quickly have their fill of His water, and the day is long without His daily bread. The raw do not understand the state of the ripe, and so my words will be brief. Break your bonds, be free, my child! How long will silver and gold enslave you? If you pour the whole sea into a jug, will it hold more than one day's store? The greedy eye, like the jug, is never filled. Until content, the oyster holds no pearl. Only one who has been undressed by love is free of defect and desire. O Gladness, O Love, our partner in trade, healer of all our ills, Our Plato and Galen, remedy for our pride and our vanity. With love this earthly body could soar in the air, the mountain could arise and nimbly dance. Love gave life to mount Sinai, O lover. Sinai was drunk; Moses lost conciousness. Pressed to the lips of one in harmony with myself, I might also tell all that can be told; but without a common tounge I am dumb, even if I have a hundred songs to sing. When the rose is gone and the garden faded, you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Belove is living, the lover just a dead thing. If love withholds it's strengthening care, the lover will be left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth. If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from it's face. O friends, listen to this tale, the marrow of our inward state." Praise be to God.
It's so divine to listen or read in its original words/ language which is Eastern Persian or Great Bulkh ... brilliant city of Aryans & Persian civilisation...
@@kam70111 not true nor fair. culture and language can easily be made inaccessible for many reasons. To say that's what is meant for it is just fake deep and speaking on behalf of a dead man.
@ARASH SHAHSEVEN No he would have been considered an Afghan, because Balkh is the current Afghanistan. Just like you would not call Balkh Iran now you wouldn't refer to it's people as Iranian either. You would not consider a countries historical assets when it gets discovered as what it was in the past. Please try to understand the difference.
@ARASH SHAHSEVEN Afghanistan has been in existence for five thousand years, I don't see how Afghanistan is a new country. But the point is that Rumi Balkhi was born in the land of Balkh which is the current Afghanistan.
@ARASH SHAHSEVEN YES. REALLY! To conclude this discussion, I would say Balkh which is the current Afghanistan is also the birthplace of Rumi Balkhi. For this reason, Rumi BALKHI would be considered an Afghan and not Iranian, just like you wouldn't consider any other assets found in a country to belong to some other regent. It would be claimed by the people of that Land.
Can you make video on Hazrat Shams Tabrizi. Was He Ismaili Imam or Hujjat of Imam. As historically we now after downfall of Alamut Imam Shamsidin Muhammad moves to Tabriz it’s around the time of Mavlana Rumis life.
Jalaluddin Rumi was a devout Muslim.He was a hanafi Faqih. He knew Islamic jurisprudence Very well. His poems are based on the teachings of prophet muhammad PBUH. Don't spread lies.
Very Nice thank you my dear 💚🙏 But mawlana rumi never established or wanted an order under his feet ,that is clearly said and also would be against his Life Philosophie of being wild and free. Thank you and please keep up your wonderful work
His Son established Malawi Sufism to preserve theintwgriry of his Father's life work. Id say he did a pretty good job,no? You wouldn't be talking about this many many years later were he not to have done this.
@@chanimarie6753 Hello Chantelle 🙏🏽 , there are many many great sufi masters who never belonged to any order , in fact we have the concept of „Awliyaullah“ which means literally „friend/ beloved of god“ , they are blessed as soon as the heart starts beating in its mothers womb or their spiritual practise which lead them to „wilaya „ . For instance one of the greatest Sufi masters in history is ibn arabi , he was Never into orders ,but he was blessed, so did the people forget him now? Never… we are since 7 generations into sufism
@ARASH Iran didn’t exist during his time. The borders of great khorasan and today’s Iran are completely different. German philosopher Kant lived in Königsberg, part of East Prussia. It’s called Kaliningrad today and belongs to Russia. But Russians cannot claim he was Russian. He was not Afghan, not Iranian but Farsi speaking khorasani and he belongs to all Farsi speaking nations.
@@alifallah1954 I'm Uzbek, I belong to Turkic family of people, but we do have strong Farsi influence through Tadjik people. For us, Farsi is like a general name for all Persian people, and Iranians belong to that group. Just like Turkey belongs to Turkic group. This way everyone is part of one big family. The problem with current Iranians is that you guys have named your country with the old name and start to claim everything as Iranian origin, and as if all Central Asia belongs to Iran. Lol. I see that Afgani brothers and sisters don't like it either. Current day Iran is not Persia! Persian culture is more than Iranian for us.
@@ramzan6949 come dont be stupid where is Balkh ??? Its in Afghanistan so where is Mawlana from ??? From Balkh which means he is From Afghanistan. Do you have Brains
افعانستان وجود خارجی نداشته در زمان مولانای بلخی... دست از ایران ستیزی بردارید... Mulana Balkhi is a Persian poet and sufi ... belongs to Aryans & Persian civilisation... Afghanistan is created by 1750 or so with a fake history as is the case for other countries like Pakistan, Iraq + More Stop fighting / harassing Persia as England + westerners wish you to do...
Not the best translation of this rumi poem. Only a bilingual translator who has a knowledge of persian spiritual litrature should translate rumis poem as it has got heavy use of persian litrature symbols and metaphors.
Rumi was a Sufi and so his poetry covers only the sufism, sufi thoughts and sufi deviations (deviations as regard the true teachings of Qur'aan and the Sunnah of our beloved Messenger of Allaah, Muhammad sallaahu alaihi wasallam). I really wonder why some simpleton/ignorant muslims unknowingly call him a Maulana which he was not at all. His teachings are not in conformity with the Islam at all; rather these had been used by him to serve and to convey the Sufi religious thoughts, their alterior motives and to underpin their purposes. He may be a very good poet, a roaming mystic but I am not impressed with him at all. Lastly, it will be very kind of anyone to not to mention his Persian poetry book "Masnavi" as the Persian Qur'aan. The holy Qur'aan is so highly sacred, glorious, the truest guidance and lasting miracle that nothing can ever be compared with it. Its the word of God and the Final Testament from God the mankind.
I memorized this long poem as a kid and still stamped in my memory! When you translate into English, it loses all the rhyming and rhythm, but Rumi poetry are so profound and very deep in Erfan and love and it takes you to the next level of humanity!
Good job and good luck with such video clips!
"Listen to the reed and the tale it tells, how it sings of separation.
Ever since they cut me off from the reed bed, my wail has caused men and women to weep.
I long for a heart that is torn open with longing so that I might share the pain of this love.
Whoever has been parted from his source longs to return to that state of union.
At every gathering I play my lament, I am a friend to both happy and sad.
Each befriended me for his own reasons, but none sort out the secrets I contain.
My secret is not different from my lament, but this is not for anyone to see.
The body is not separate from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, but the soul is not for anyone to see.
This flute is played with fire, not with wind, and without this fire you would not exist.
It is the fire of love that inspires the flute, it is the ferment of love that completes the wine.
The reed is a comfort to all estranged lovers, it's music tears our veils away.
Have you ever seen a poison or antidote like the reed? Have you ever seen a more infinite companion and lover?
It sings of the path of blood, it relates the passion of Majun.
Only to the senseless is this sense confided. Does the tounge have any patron but the ear?
Our days grow more unreasonable. These days which mix with grief and pain.
But if the days that remain are few, let them go; it doesn't matter. But You, You remain, for nothing is as pure as You are.
All but the fish quickly have their fill of His water, and the day is long without His daily bread.
The raw do not understand the state of the ripe, and so my words will be brief.
Break your bonds, be free, my child! How long will silver and gold enslave you?
If you pour the whole sea into a jug, will it hold more than one day's store?
The greedy eye, like the jug, is never filled. Until content, the oyster holds no pearl.
Only one who has been undressed by love is free of defect and desire.
O Gladness, O Love, our partner in trade, healer of all our ills,
Our Plato and Galen, remedy for our pride and our vanity.
With love this earthly body could soar in the air, the mountain could arise and nimbly dance.
Love gave life to mount Sinai, O lover. Sinai was drunk; Moses lost conciousness.
Pressed to the lips of one in harmony with myself, I might also tell all that can be told; but without a common tounge I am dumb, even if I have a hundred songs to sing.
When the rose is gone and the garden faded, you will no longer hear the nightingale's song.
The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Belove is living, the lover just a dead thing.
If love withholds it's strengthening care, the lover will be left like a bird without wings.
How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent?
Love wills that this Word be brought forth.
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from it's face.
O friends, listen to this tale, the marrow of our inward state."
Praise be to God.
Thank you❤
Love from Australia
I live with these poems
These secrets are for the heart, not for eyes or ears🙏💕
It's so divine to listen or read in its original words/ language which is Eastern Persian or Great Bulkh ... brilliant city of Aryans & Persian civilisation...
Rumi was descendant of Arab Hazrat Abu Bakr.
@@hsy6905 Hazrat?! The Guy Who Tried To Assassinate The Prophet (PBUH)?
@@hsy6905 no he wasn’t lmao
@@qglow-5609 yes he was , this was mentioned by his son Sultan Walad.
The translation is really good, but without knowing Persian, you can't really understand all of his word-play and smart double meanings.
Where can I read about those subtleties? Is there a commentary to his work?
@@libatonvhs Only one for whom it is meant can understand its subtleties.
@@kam70111 not true nor fair. culture and language can easily be made inaccessible for many reasons. To say that's what is meant for it is just fake deep and speaking on behalf of a dead man.
Masnavi is very similar to Isha Upnishad I love both of them.
@@libatonvhs i know a few very good commentaries but they’re all in Persian
I'm just mesmerized head to toe❤️❤️❤️❤️😘🙏🙏😍😍🌹🌹🌺🍀🍀☘️🌷💕😘🎁😲🍇🌈🌈🌈🥒🥒🥒🍍🌶🍅🍌🌽🍒🌸🌸
Tears Oh teas stream from the eyes upon my face but these tears are no less the elixir of bliss and union with the light of the heart.
Need to listen this a thousand times to understand it
Simply beautiful.
Thank you beautiful soul 💚🌹🙇
Jalaludi Balkhi Rumi was an Afghan born in the city of Balkh. That is why he called himself Balkhi.
Afghan born? Afghanistan did not exist during his time. But he was born in Balkh, which is part of Afghanistan today.
@ARASH Iran didn’t exist.
@ARASH SHAHSEVEN No he would have been considered an Afghan, because Balkh is the current Afghanistan. Just like you would not call Balkh Iran now you wouldn't refer to it's people as Iranian either. You would not consider a countries historical assets when it gets discovered as what it was in the past. Please try to understand the difference.
@ARASH SHAHSEVEN Afghanistan has been in existence for five thousand years, I don't see how Afghanistan is a new country. But the point is that Rumi Balkhi was born in the land of Balkh which is the current Afghanistan.
@ARASH SHAHSEVEN YES. REALLY!
To conclude this discussion, I would say Balkh which is the current Afghanistan is also the birthplace of Rumi Balkhi. For this reason, Rumi BALKHI would be considered an Afghan and not Iranian, just like you wouldn't consider any other assets found in a country to belong to some other regent. It would be claimed by the people of that Land.
Amazing Poem!
Thank you
Thank you,,,I love Rumi
we can rumi-nate on this.
waka waka.
i’ll let myself out …
So grateful for this
So beautiful
Balk is in Afghanistan and Mevlana did not establish mevlevi order but his decendants did. His famous friend was an ismaili dai
Beautiful rendition. The na'y in the background is so evocative and stirring. A small typo at 0:51 - "it's" should be "its".
I wonder why you're still not covering Rumi separately! It would be peaceful to hear from you about the Maoulana
So 254 like and no negative . Firsr vedio i see this
Great.
When will you be looking at the "The Slave Girl of Samarkand" story ?
Bishnav az Nai chun shikoyat mekunad
Az judogiho rivoyat mekunad.
Can you make video on Hazrat Shams Tabrizi. Was He Ismaili Imam or Hujjat of Imam. As historically we now after downfall of Alamut Imam Shamsidin Muhammad moves to Tabriz it’s around the time of Mavlana Rumis life.
Wasn't he a sufi dervish?
do you have a plan to make a video about maulana and shams
Great video
May I have if it pleases you title of the Sufi music plse?
Thank you 🌺
I belong to no religion. my religion is love. Every heart is my temple... rumi
Please share the source. I doubt this is not Rumi quote.
Jalaluddin Rumi was a devout Muslim.He was a hanafi Faqih. He knew Islamic jurisprudence Very well. His poems are based on the teachings of prophet muhammad PBUH. Don't spread lies.
Many comments are about the nationality of Rumi under the song of reeds! Such an ironic...for a moment be silent and listen to it.
Exactly. There is no nationalistic squabbling in the reed bed.
Yes
Honestly, woah
Wow 😳
Rumi did not found the Mevlevi Order but his son Sultan Valad Al-Balkhi
All this talk of where Mevlana was from, he was from the reed bed...
❤😂
And the Reed is Rumi (Molana) himself
you are great
Does anyone know who translated the poem?
Kabir helminski.
This is nothing compared to the whispers and supplications found in Sahifa Kamila. It's available online easily...
Very Nice thank you my dear 💚🙏 But mawlana rumi never established or wanted an order under his feet ,that is clearly said and also would be against his Life Philosophie of being wild and free.
Thank you and please keep up your wonderful work
His Son established Malawi Sufism to preserve theintwgriry of his Father's life work. Id say he did a pretty good job,no? You wouldn't be talking about this many many years later were he not to have done this.
@@chanimarie6753 Hello Chantelle 🙏🏽 , there are many many great sufi masters who never belonged to any order , in fact we have the concept of „Awliyaullah“ which means literally „friend/ beloved of god“ , they are blessed as soon as the heart starts beating in its mothers womb or their spiritual practise which lead them to „wilaya „ .
For instance one of the greatest Sufi masters in history is ibn arabi , he was Never into orders ,but he was blessed, so did the people forget him now? Never… we are since 7 generations into sufism
Quran has 2 meanings one is a book of which is red alot and the other one which is the Holly book Quran which is the common meaning now days
4:44 the translation is not right; “tongue” is not correct… the correct word is “language”
Tongue is often used as synonymous with language. I read it as meaning a common language.
Nice video as always.
In order to make it more precise one could replace "Persia" with "__ century __ Empire" or "modern day Afghanistan"
It's precise stop your nationalistic bullshit and enjoy the video
@@alirazi9198 yea , he just missed the point of rumi
@@thehonestdude1067 yeah the man was all over middleeast
Pain, blood, and enslaved verbage does not soothe my soul.
My country man 🇹🇷
He was Not turkic.
I know he is iranian orgin but my part of culture especially every turkey not turkıc geneticly mongolians colonized anatolia
@@yosefdemirciyan7400 yes I agree with you
Rumi is your bridge to Eran!
@@justusscepticushumanus4848”Bigâne megirid mera zin kûyem Der kûyi şüma hanei hud micuyem
Düşmen neyem erçend ki düşmen ruyem
Alsam Türkest egerçi Hindî gûyem.”
He is Turk.
Everything' so beautiful, but I think you should research more about Persian music. This ney is being played in Arabic style.
Excuse me, he did not live in Persia.
@ARASH Iran didn’t exist during his time. The borders of great khorasan and today’s Iran are completely different. German philosopher Kant lived in Königsberg, part of East Prussia. It’s called Kaliningrad today and belongs to Russia. But Russians cannot claim he was Russian. He was not Afghan, not Iranian but Farsi speaking khorasani and he belongs to all Farsi speaking nations.
I am an iranian . But yes its for all the world . Its not important if he was iranian or not . We must use the thinking and meaning
@@alifallah1954 I'm Uzbek, I belong to Turkic family of people, but we do have strong Farsi influence through Tadjik people. For us, Farsi is like a general name for all Persian people, and Iranians belong to that group. Just like Turkey belongs to Turkic group.
This way everyone is part of one big family. The problem with current Iranians is that you guys have named your country with the old name and start to claim everything as Iranian origin, and as if all Central Asia belongs to Iran. Lol.
I see that Afgani brothers and sisters don't like it either.
Current day Iran is not Persia! Persian culture is more than Iranian for us.
Balkh is in Afghanistan no Persia(Iran)
@@ramzan6949 How am i Racist ??? Just saying dont get tge places wrong..
@@ramzan6949 come dont be stupid where is Balkh ??? Its in Afghanistan so where is Mawlana from ??? From Balkh which means he is From Afghanistan. Do you have Brains
@@parwezpopalzai3773 Afghanistan was part of persia.
Admin Balkh is in Afghanistan not Persia,. Try to be realistic and be none biased
افعانستان وجود خارجی نداشته در زمان مولانای بلخی... دست از ایران ستیزی بردارید...
Mulana Balkhi is a Persian poet and sufi ... belongs to Aryans & Persian civilisation... Afghanistan is created by 1750 or so with a fake history as is the case for other countries like Pakistan, Iraq + More
Stop fighting / harassing Persia as England + westerners wish you to do...
Cut the crap how is it persians can easily go to Afghanistan and speak to everyone there? Cause Afghans are Persians too its as simple as that
@ARASH chert nagoo
@@alirazi9198 Yes, he was Persian, no doubt about it. But he was not Iranian.
@ARASH fake country like Iran as well, right?
Not the best translation of this rumi poem. Only a bilingual translator who has a knowledge of persian spiritual litrature should translate rumis poem as it has got heavy use of persian litrature symbols and metaphors.
Rumi was a Sufi and so his poetry covers only the sufism, sufi thoughts and sufi deviations (deviations as regard the true teachings of Qur'aan and the Sunnah of our beloved Messenger of Allaah, Muhammad sallaahu alaihi wasallam). I really wonder why some simpleton/ignorant muslims unknowingly call him a Maulana which he was not at all. His teachings are not in conformity with the Islam at all; rather these had been used by him to serve and to convey the Sufi religious thoughts, their alterior motives and to underpin their purposes. He may be a very good poet, a roaming mystic but I am not impressed with him at all.
Lastly, it will be very kind of anyone to not to mention his Persian poetry book "Masnavi" as the Persian Qur'aan. The holy Qur'aan is so highly sacred, glorious, the truest guidance and lasting miracle that nothing can ever be compared with it. Its the word of God and the Final Testament from God the mankind.