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Article 13
If It Were
Always Summer !
by Rumi
When a feeling of spiritual contraction comes over you,
O traveler, it's for your own good.
Don't burn with grief, for in the state of expansion and delight you are
spending.
That enthusiasm requires an income of pain to balance it.
If it were always summer, the sun's blazing heat would burn the garden
to the roots and depths of the soil.
The withered plants never again would become fresh.
If December is sour-faced, yet it is kind.
Summer is laughing, but yet it destroys.
When spiritual contraction comes, behold expansion within it;
be cheerful and let your face relax.
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Chonke qabzi âyadet ay râh-raw
ân salâh-e tost âtesh-del ma-shaw
Zânke dar kharji dar ân bast o goshâd
kharj-râ dakhli be-bâyad ze e`tedâd
Gar hamâreh fasl tâbestân bodi
suzesh-e khvorshid dar bostân shodi
Manbetesh-râ sukhti az bikh o bon
keh degar tâzeh na-gashti ân kohon
Gar torsh-ruist ân Day moshfeq ast
sayf khandânast ammâ mohreqast
Chonke qabz âyad to dar vay bast bin
tâzeh bâsh va chin mi-fegan dar jabin
Mathnawi III, 3734-3739
Version byCamille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian
transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra
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