Excerpt from Rumi's Masnawi (1:29)
Narrated by Omar Nasim
Score Evenstar
Recorded at MON Studios, 2012
Video Link: http://youtu.be/jG9Kix_4djY

Lines:
When the rose is gone & the garden faded,
You will no longer hear the nightingale's song.
The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil.
The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing.
If love withholds its strengthening care,
The lover is left like a bird without care,
The lover is left like a bird without wings.
How will I be awake and aware,
If the light of the Beloved is absent?
Love wills that this Word be brought forth.

When The Rose Is Gone (Rumi) - Audio

An excerpt from Masnavi by Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi
Narrated by Omar Nasim
Translated by Nader Khalili

Score:
Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche

Lines:
Don't go to sleep this night
one night, is worth a hundred thousand souls

the night is generous
it can give you a gift of the full moon
it can bless your soul with endless treasure

every night when you feel, the world is unjust
never ending grace descends from the sky
to soothe your souls

the night is not crowded like the day
the night is filled with eternal love
take this night, tight in your arms
as you hold a sweetheart

remember the water of life is in the dark caverns
don't be like a big fish stopping the life's flow
by standing in the mouth of a creek

even Mecca is adorned with black clothes
showing that the heavens are ready
to grace the human soul

during a night
the blessed prophet broke all the idols
and God remained alone
to give equally to all
an endless love

Translated by Nader Khalili
Rumi, Fountain of Fire
Cal-Earth, September 1994

* I claim no rights to the included soundtrack & the score is, thus, the property of its respective owner.

Don't Go To Sleep This Night (Rumi)

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