The Monkey Is Your Friend!

I am before, I am after,
The soul for all souls all the way.
I’m the one with a helping hand,
Ready for those gone wild, astray.

I made the ground flat where it lies,
On it I had those mountains rise,
I designed the vault of the skies,
For I hold all things in my sway.

To countless lovers I have been,
A guide for faith and religion.,
I am sacrilege in men’s hearts,
Also the true faith and Islam’s way.

I make men love peace and unite,
Putting down the black words on white,
I wrote the four holy books right,
I’m the Koran for those who pray.

It’s not Yunus who says all this,
It speaks its own realities,
To doubt this would be blasphemous,
“I’m before-I’m after,” I say.

    -  Yunus Emre

Original Article

“In truth everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved.
Our seeking is His seeking.
Our words are His words.
We search for Him here and there while looking right at Him.
Sitting by His side, we ask: ‘O Beloved, where is the Beloved?”

- Hazreti Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Original Article

 ”Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”

- Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Original Article

“When you grow up, your childhood dies.
When sorrow becomes joy, the thorn of sorrowfulness does not remain.
This mystery is understood only by dying, not by using one’s reason.
Do thou then, become the spiritual resurrection, and thereby see and experience the resurrection.
Until you become it, you will not know it completely, whether it be light or darkness.
If you become reason, you will know reason perfectly.
If you become Love, you will know Love’s flaming fire.”

- Hazreti Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (translated by Reynold A. Nicholson)

Original Article