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Thanksgiving
by Rumi
Giving thanks for abundance
is sweeter than the abundance itself.
Should one who is absorbed with the Generous One
be distracted by the gift?
Thankfulness is the soul of beneficence;
abundance is but the husk, for thankfulness brings you to
the place
where the Beloved lives.
Abundance yields heedlessness; thankfulness, alertness:
hunt for bounty with the snare of gratitude to the King.
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Shokr-e ne`mat khvoshtar az ne`mat bovad
shokr-e Bâreh kay su-ye ne`mat ravad
Shokr jân-e ne`mat va ne`mat chu-pust
zânke shokr ârad torâ tâ ku-ye Dust
Ne`mat ârad ghaflat va shokr entebâh
sayd-e ne`mat kon be-dâm-e shokr-e Shâh
-- Mathnawi III: 2895-2897
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá
Monastra)
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Thanksgiving for the bounty is sweeter than the bounty
(itself): how should he that is addicted to thanksgiving go
towards
(direct his attention to) the bounty?
Thanksgiving is the soul of the bounty, and the bounty is
as a
husk because thanksgiving brings you to the abode of the
Beloved.
Bounty produces heedlessness, and thanksgiving alertness:
hunt after bounty with the snare of thanksgiving to the
King.
The bounty of thanksgiving will make you contented and
princely so
that you will bestow a hundred bounties on the poor.
You will eat your fill of the viands and dessert of God,
so that
hunger and begging will depart from you.
-- Mathnawi III: 2895-2899
Translation and Commentary by Reynold A. Nic
holson
"The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi"
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