Rumiverse - Masnavi

Masnavi I by E.H. Whinfield

Masnavi II by E.H. Whinfield

Masnavi III by E.H. Whinfield

Masnavi IV by E.H. Whinfield

Masnavi V by E.H. Whinfield

Masnavi VI by E.H. Whinfield

I, 0001-18 by Hannah ("Song of the Reed")
Star ("Listen to the song of the reed")
Lewis ("Listen as this reed pipes its plaint")
and Gamard ("Listen to the reed {flute}, how it is complaining!")

I, 0061-78 by Nicholson ("When from the depths of his soul he raised a cry")

I, 0078-92 by Bly ("We should ask God")
Gamard ("We seek from God the ability {to have} good manners,")
Nicholson ("Let us implore God to help us to self-control")
and Helminski ("The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone - ")

I, 0109-116 by Helminski ("The lover's ailment is not like any other")
and Gamard ("Only Love can Understand the Secrets of God")

I, 0175-77 by Helminski ("When your heart becomes a grave of your secret")

I, 0232-3 by Helminski ("This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace")

I, 0311-323 by Nicholson ("Sometimes it {the action of God} appears like this")

I, 0324-370 by Nicholson ("The Jewish king who for bigotry's sake used to slay the Christians")

I, 371-406, 437-462 by Nicholson ("How the Christians followed the vizar")

I, 0409-10 by Helminski ("The more awake one is to the spiritual world")

I, 0463-99 by Nicholson ("How the visar confused the ordinances of the Gospel")

I, 0596-610 by Gamard ("The tears of {our} eyes are running")

I, 0988-989 by Gamard ("He Is Abiding Peacefully")

I, 1130-34 by Chittick ("God created suffering and heartache")

I, 1510-13 by Gamard ("We Are In His Hands In Anger And In Peace")

I, 1603-1614 by Nicholson ("It does not harm the spiritualist (saint)")

I, 1951-2011 by Nicholaon ("The Prophet said, 'In these days the breathings of God prevail . . .'")

I, 2046-59 by Nicholson ("The Prophet said, 'Give heed, my friends!. . .'")

I, 2199-2222 by Gamard ("Umar and the Harpist")

I, 2429-47 by Nicholson ("The Prophet said that woman prevails exceedingly")
Gamard ("She is a Ray of the Beauty of God")
and Barks ("She is the Creator")

I, 2447-2481 by Gamard ("Pharoah and Moses")

I, 2625-27 by Helminski ("If love were only spiritual")

I, 2829-47 by Gamard ("The Grammarian and the Boatman")

I, 2850-70 by Barks ("The Gift of Water")

I, 2880-2901 by Nicholson ("Whatsoever the man in love (with God) speaks")

I, 2981-3021 by Barks ("In Oazwin, they have a custom of tattooing themselves")

I, 3052-3100 by Gamard ("{Regarding the verse}'Everything will perish except His Face'")
and Nicholson ("A certain man came and knocked at a friend's door")

I, 3150-3175, 3192-3227 by Barks ("Childhood Friends")

I, 3445 by Fattal ("Come, acknowledge that your imagination, your thinking")

I, 3462-85, 3499 by Barks ("Chinese Art and Greek Art")

I, 3585-3601 by Gamard ("The Wisdom of Luqman")

I, 3882-86 by Helminski ("He alone has the right to break,")
and Nicholson ("I am such a man that the honey of my kindness ")

II, 0450-512 by Barks ("The Lion's Shoulder")

II, 0478-80 by Helminski ("Opinions are sometimes wrong")

II, 0566-68 by Helminski ("The reflection cast from good friends is needed")

II, 0714-15 by Helminski ("Little by little God takes away human beauty")

II, 0746-47 by Helminski ("If you have a touchstone, go ahead, choose")

II, 0759-62 by Helminski ("The Worker is hidden in the workshop")

II, 0898 by Hemlinski ("Stinginess is not seeing the abundance")

II, 1020-21 by Helminski ("Know that the outward form passes away")

II, 1034-37 by Helminski ("When you see that from a thought")

II, 1047-72 by Gamard ("What Is The Benefit Of This Existence? {part 1}")

II, 1189-91 by Helminski ("These sayings of mine are really a call to God")

II, 1264-66 by Helminski ("The worm is in the root of the body's tree")

II, 1345-47 by Helminski ("The baptism of God is the dyeing vat of Hu")

II, 1458, 61 by Hemlinski ("How will you know your real friends?")

II, 1529-30 by Schimmel ("Through love all that is bitter will be sweet")

II, 1552, 1554 by Helminski ("God turns you from one feeling to another")

II, 1587-88 by Hemlinski ("Is there a window from heart to heart?")

II, 1716-19 by Barks ("The Level of Words")
and Nicholson ("He has said 'Although I far transcend commemoration'")

II, 2036-58 by Barks ("How Attraction Happens")

II, 2593-99 by Hemlinski ("In this world you have become clothed and rich")

II, 2738-43 by Hemlinski ("When the heart becomes whole")

II, 2750-53 by Helminski ("One who sees without distortion")

II, 2811-14 by Helminski ("In union with God, of what value are signs?")

II, 3071-79 by Helminski ("Someone says, 'I can't help feeding my family'")

II, 3436-74 by Barks ("The Mouse and the Camel")

II, 3559-61 by Helminski ("Everyone is overridden by thoughts")

II, 3612-14 by Helminski ("Let the skeptic know")

II, 3717-18 by Helminski ("A brotherhood is as a cluster of grapes")

III, 0046-62 by Barks ("Wean Yourself")
Helminski ("Where is the nurse for the thirsty infant")
and Nicholson ("Where is a nurse for the suckling babe?")

III, 0189-211 by Barks ("Love Dogs")
and Nicholson ("One night a certain man was crying 'Allah!'")

III, 0567-75 by Barks ("Majnun with Layla's Dog")
and Nicholson ("{They behaved} like Majnun, who was {seen} petting a dog")

III, 0682-84 by Helminski ("There are hundreds and thousands of trials for anyone who claims")

III, 0978-81 by Helminski ("Whether one moves slowly or with speed")

III, 1222-23 by Helminski ("There is many a one whose eye is awake")

III, 1271-74 by Helminski ("Day and night there is movement of foam on the Sea")

III, 1284-88 by Barks ("A Star Without A Name")

III, 1438, 1440 by Maufroy ("Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful")

III, 1490-92 by Helminski ("O You who make demands within me like an embryo")

III, 1616-19 by Helminski ("Just as staying at home is easy for some")
and Barks ("Love For Certain Work")

III, 1895-1916 by Helminski ("The perfect speaker is like one who distributes trays of viands")

III, 1960-61 by Helminski ("By God, don't linger")

III, 2202-07 by Helminski ("The lion of destiny is dragging our souls")
and Nicholson ("'Tis as when a lion has suddenly come up and seized a man")

III, 2302-05 by Helminski ("Come seek, for search is the foundation of fortune")

III, 2527-32 by Helminski ("The philosopher is a slave of intellectual pretensions")

III, 2537-38 by Helminski ("The Logos is digging a channel")

III, 2595-98 by Helminski ("Flee from the foolish; even Jesus fled from them")

III, 2628-3754 by Nicholson ("Know that hope is the deaf man who has {often} heard of our dying")

III, 2895-99 by Helminski ("Giving thanks for abundance")
and Nicholson ("Thanksgiving for the bounty is sweeter than the bounty")

III, 3071-76 by Helminski ("The sea doesn't let the fish out")

III, 3210-12 by Chittick ("Where there is pain, cures will come")

III, 3260-65 by Helminski ("Whatever by divine destiny becomes lost to you")

III, 3417-18 by Helminski ("The core of every fruit is better than its rind")

III, 3500-08 by Helminski ("God brought the earth and the heavenly spheres into existence")

III, 3693; 3698-3700 by Helminski ("The penetrating intellect, when separated from its friends")

III, 3766-69 by Barks ("Birdwings")

III, 3901-03 by Chittick ("I died from the mineral kingdom")

III, 4159-65 by Helminski ("Look at the chickpea in the pot")
and Barks ("Chickpea To Cook")

III, 4391-472 by Barks ("Desire and the Importance of Failing")
and Helminski *MIII4456-61* ("You make a hundred resolutios to journey somewhere")
and Helminski *MIII4462-67* ("Your resolutions and purposes now and then are fulfilled")

III, 4456-61 by Helminski ("You make a hundred resolutions to journey somewhere")

III, 4462-67 by Helminski ("Your resolutions and purposes now and then are fulfilled")

III, 4664-93 by Barks ("Birdsong From Inside the Egg")

III, 4808-09 by Helminski ("In consequence of a fractured leg")

IV, 0006-7 by Helminski ("Since you wish it so, God wishes it so")

IV, 0165-71 by Helminski ("When you have done wrong, be wary, don't be complacent")

IV, 538-46 by Helminski ("The Prophet said, 'I am like an Ark in the Flood of Time'")
and Chittick ("The Prophet said, 'I am like a ship in the storm of Time")

IV, 1388-90 by Helminski ("When you say, 'I'm ignorant; teach me'")

IV, 1633-36 by Helminski ("Rumi on Attraction")

IV, 2341-45 by Helminski ("Seeing a man who was tilling the earth")

IV, 2369-73 by Helminski ("When you whirl, your eyes see the room whirling, too")

IV, 2537-39 by Barks ("The Worm's Waking")

IV, 2683-96 by Barks ("The Many Wines")

IV, 2962-63 by Helminski ("Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river")

IV, 3189-3240 by Barks ("A Marriage at Daybreak")
and Nicholson ("O brother, know that thou art the prince born anew in the old world")

IV, 3226-41 by Barks ("The Water You Want")
and Nicholson ("The eye and spirit that sees (only) the transient falls on its face")

IV, 3234-37;3241 by Helminski ("Many set out from the very spot")

IV, 3259-70 by Barks ("The Reasonable Father")
and Nicholson ("The whole world is the form of Universal Reason")

IV, 3628-67 by Barks ("The Dream That Must Be Interpreted")
and Nicholson ("Even so this world, which is the sleeper's dream")

IV, 6220-23 by Helminski ("The bird tempted by the bait may still be on the roof")

V, 134-43 by Barks ("The cloud weeps, and then the garden sprouts")

V, 228-36 by Barks ("Story-Water")
and Nicholson ("This parable is like an intermediary in the discourse")

V, 729-35 by Helminski ("Every fantasy devours another fantasy")

V, 1045-50 by Helminski ("Rumi on Good Deeds Accompanying You in the Grave")

V, 1163-69 by Helminski ("Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?")

V, 1931-32 by Helminski ("What is the real meaning of 'the inner nature of his parent'?")

V, 1941-42 by Helminski ("What is arrogance?")

V, 1961-64 by Helminski ("Does anyone write something on a place")

V, 2012-14 by Helminski ("If there had not been Love, how would there have been existence?")

V, 2020-43 by Barks ("The Sunrise Ruby")
and Chittick ("One morning a beloved said to her lover to test him")
and Nicholson ("At the hour of morning-drink, a beloved said to her lover")

V, 2486-93 by Helminski ("Whatever is steeped in grape juice will acquire the flavor")

V, 2792-96 by Helminski ("Put your hand beneath the rug, in order to fool the evil eye")

V, 2855-69 by Barks ("A Small Green Island")
and Nicholson ("There is in the world a green island")

V, 3189-98 by Helminski ("Abandon being loved by people and practice loving God")

V, 3195-3219 by Barks ("You Are The Only Student You Have")

V, 3644-46;3676-80;3693-95 by Barks ("The Guest House")
and Nicholson ("This body is a guest house")

V, 3821;3826-28 by Helminski ("All this dying is not the death of the physical form")

V, 3854-59 by Helminski ("Know that the wheeling heavens are turned by waves of Love")

VI, 5-21 by Nicholson ("Love hath naught to do with the five (senses)")

VI, 66-73 by Barks ("Dig a Hole in This Book")
and Nicholson ("Still, if it is impossible to drain {drink} the Oxus")

VI, 216-27 by Barks ("I am part of the load not rightly balanced")
and Nicholson ("Let the ill-balanced load drop from me")

VI, 417-20 by Helminski ("When you have eaten too much honey")

VI, 435-77 by Barks ("Various Disguises and Seams")

VI, 512-18 by Helminski ("The one who cheerfully goes along on a journey")

VI, 823-24 by Maufroy ("How shall we seek real knowledge?")

VI, 831-45 by Barks ("These spiritual window-shoppers")
and Nicholson ("Ye {worldly folk} also {who are engaged} in commerce")

VI, 1430-45 by Barks ("The Core of Masculinity")
and Nicholson ("The gist {of the matter} is that masculinity does not come")

VI, 1466-82 by Barks ("Dervishes")

VI, 1479-82 by Helminski ("Think neither of being accepted nor of being turned away")

VI, 1637-44 by Nicholson ("{Now} I will talk to you of matters indifferent")

VI, 1810-22 by Barks ("The Naked Sun")
and Nicholson ("In like manner {all} the parts of those intoxicated with union")

VI, 2028-41 by Barks ("Dive into the Ocean")
and Nicholson ("Go to the Sea of whose fish thou art borne")

VI, 3095-97 by Helminski ("Listen, open a window to God")

VI, 3172-78;3183 by Chittick ("Consider the creatures as pure and limpid water")

VI, 4167-4275;4280;4302-19;4324-26 by Barks ("In Baghdad Dreaming of Cairo; In Cairo Dreaming of Baghdad")

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