1ST POEM


    I went through a journey without I
    There, my heart opened up to joy without I

    The Beloved who always hid His face from me
    Suddenly showed His beautiful face to me without I

    I died from the pain of not finding you
    A new birth came and I was reborn without I

    Now I am always drunk without any wine
    Now I am always happy and joyful without I

    Do not ever remember me for who I was
    I am the remembrance of me without I

    I say happy and loving words without I
    It is I who is always alive without I

    All the doors of fortune and joy were closed on me
    Suddenly they were opened to me without I

    With I, even if I am a king, I am a slave of time
    Without I, there is no slavery in all my kingdom

    I am drunk with the wine from Shams Tabriz
    May this drunkenness of love be always without I


    2ND POEM

    I was in the vicinity of an old monastery
    When my heart was suddenly taken over
    by divine love
    The Beloved saw me and pointed at me
    I went along and followed Him
    He suddenly hid His face from me
    I became amazed by the power of the Beloved
    For He, with one glimpse, made me complete
    Suddenly He appeared as a beautiful deer
    Who changed into two hundred amazing colours
    With the brilliance of His magical colours
    He went along on a journey to Tabriz
    And out of His great wisdom and will
    He changed the perception of the people of Tabriz
    And raised their consciousness to see the Truth
    Then He said to the people,
    Those who sought Me through understanding and not belief
    And still worshiped Me out of their humbleness
    I honour them with special status, prosperity and love of the world
    Those who said that we are perfect and complete
    I will make them crazy, desperate and wanderers of this world
    Shams of Tabriz was the confidant to all His secrets
    To whom He declared the details of all the secrets of His creation
    The moment Shams opened his wings of Love
    Arch angel Gabriel instantly became Sham's servant


    3RD POEM

    My friend; is the taste of sugar sweeter or the taste of the
    one who makes it

    Is the beauty of a goddess greater or the beauty of the one who
    makes her

    Leave all the beautiful goddesses and all the sweet sugar
    For He knows better and He creates accordingly

    Oh mind of man; are you more knowledgeable and experienced

    Or the One who creates hundreds of minds and wisdom in a
    second

    Through His glory, He finds bodies, minds and hearts

    And from a drop of water, He makes hundreds of eyes and
    wisdom

    Oh love, you are the fire of ecstasy and passion
    This is because He made you out of fire and sexual passion

    Now I have become mad because of your love
    And sometimes my feelings for You burn my heart

    Out of His love, He made the ocean of love
    Between Romeo and Juliet (or Khosro and Shirin in Persia)
    And out of that love, hundreds of poems and art were born

    Shams Tabriz shapes my heart in a hundred ways
    Sometimes he makes a sword out of my heart and sometimes
    a shield


    4TH POEM

    Every moment the Beloved is reborn
    In different bodies with many faces
    He brings us love to love then He goes away
    Hence our pains
    Every moment He wears different garments
    Sometimes He becomes old and sometimes young

    There is no reincarnation and in truth, the beautiful Beloved
    Became the sharpest sword to destroy reincarnation
    And became the killer of time

    He was travelling round the earth for leisure
    When He became Jesus and appeared on the horizon holding
    a rosary

    He became Noah and drowned the world while praying,
    He went on the Ark

    He became Joseph and from Egypt sent His blessings to the world
    To bring the world out of darkness with His light

    He emanated waves of the brightest light through Jacobs' eyes
    Until Jacob recognised Him

    When the mind gained perfection in wisdom in old age
    He became drunk out of joy and climbed mountains
    And He changed to become a young man again
    He became Job and showed his patience to the world
    From the pain and the wounds which were afflicted on him
    While He was both the wounds and the cure
    He screamed from depth of his being
    And suddenly His body became all light

    He became Jonah and was swallowed by a whale in the sea
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