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Jami Quotes

1414–1492

Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī (Persian: نورالدین عبدالرحمن جامی‎), also known as Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti, or simply as Jami or Djāmī and in Turkey as Molla Cami (7 November 1414 – 9 November 1492), was a Persian poet who is known for his achievements as a prolific scholar and writer of mystical Sufi literature.

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Happy is the man who knows the true from the false, and refuses to accept less.

How a pleasant word of an old lover that said
When there is lovem there is no comfort.

I was trapped in love
And this trap is enough for me.

Heart is not free from love pain
Painless body is only soil and water
Everybody vecomes lover
O, there is no leveless heart in the worls.

The pain night will be ended
And separation pain will be remedied
Unaware of this fact that this night is so long
And from that night to morning there are hundred years.

Those who fancy that collectedness results from the collecting of wordly goods remain in perpetual distraction, whilst those who are convinced that amassing wealth is the cause of distraction renounce all wordly goods.

Thou, for whose love I've sacrifice existence,
Art, yet art not, the sum of earth's existence,
Earth lacks true Being, yet depends thereon—
Thou art true Being, Thou art pure existence
The Loved One is quite colourless, O heart,
Be not engrossed with colours, then, O heart
All colours come from what is colourless,
And 'who can dye so well as God,' O heart?

Were Women all like those whom here I name,
Woman to man I surely would prefer;
The Sun is feminine, nor deems it shame;
The Moon, though masculine, depends on her.

My Love stood by me at the dawn of day,
And said, 'To grief you make my heart a prey,
What I am casting looks of love at you,
Have you no shame to turn your eyes away?
All my life long I tread love's path of pain,
It peradventure 'union' I may gain
Better to catch one moment's glimpse of Thee
Than earthly beauties' love through lite retain.

God has not made with two hearts within him. The incomparable Majesty who has conferred the boon of existence upon thee has placed within thee but one heart, to the end that with single heart thou mayest love Him alone, and mayest turn thy back on all besides and devote thyself to Him alone, and refrain from dividing thy heart into a hundred portions, each portion devoted to a different object.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jami (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.