Khwaja Ghulam Farid (1841 – 1901)
Original Punjabi Performance by Arieb Azhar
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Rumi: The Meaning of Love
Both light and shadow
are the dance of Love.
Love has no cause;
it is the astrolabe of God’s secrets.
Lover and Loving are inseparable
and timeless.
Although I may try to describe Love
when I experience it I am speechless.
Although I may try to write about Love
I am rendered helpless;
my pen breaks and the paper slips away
at the ineffable place
where Lover, Loving and Loved are one.
Every moment is made glorious
by the light of Love.
Rumi: Don’t Go Back To Sleep
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep
You must ask for what you really want
Don’t go back to sleep
People are going back and forth across the door sill
- where the two worlds touch -
The door is round and open
Don’t go back to sleep
~ Rumi
Rabindranath Tagore: Stream of Life
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
Lyrics adapted into the Song “Praan” Sung by: Palbasha Siddique
