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OP - November 15, 2010, 03:21 AM

Hi, are any of you guys fans of Mirza Ghalib, Rumi, etc?

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Re: Poetry
Reply #1 - November 15, 2010, 06:17 AM

I like watching and listening to live poets go at it and reading about them. But I'm not into it that much at least not atm.

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Reply #2 - November 15, 2010, 06:19 AM

Yes, I have read a lot of Mirza Ghalib and Rumi. I think Rumi is perhaps one of the most important poets that has ever penned a lyric and agree with most of his romanticism as with the romantic impulses of the general sufi movement.

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Reply #3 - November 15, 2010, 06:21 AM

I agree wholeheartedly.

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Reply #4 - November 15, 2010, 06:21 AM

I have a link I think you might like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EcVqOd8oG8

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Reply #5 - November 15, 2010, 05:07 PM

^I understood NONE of that!

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Reply #6 - June 14, 2011, 10:15 PM

A beautiful poem by Khalil Gibran. I would like to dedicate this to Muslim parents everywhere...

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.

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Reply #7 - June 14, 2011, 10:22 PM

Quote from: IsLame on June 14, 2011, 10:15 PM
A beautiful poem by Khalil Gibran. I would like to dedicate this to Muslim parents everywhere...

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.

The Prophet is so epic.

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Reply #8 - June 14, 2011, 10:24 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXgdeG3WUUA

For those who understand arabic.

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Grouchy what is the good reason for picking up an innocent girl as Osama bin Laden?
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Reply #9 - June 14, 2011, 11:33 PM

Quote from: Grouchy on June 14, 2011, 10:22 PM
The Prophet is so epic.

One of his most notable lines of poetry in the English-speaking world is from "Sand and Foam" (1926), which reads: "Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you". This line was used by John Lennon and placed, though in a slightly altered form, into the song "Julia" from The Beatles' 1968 album The Beatles (a.k.a. "The White Album").

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Reply #10 - June 15, 2011, 10:15 AM

We're not compatible: you're a different breed;
You're the butcher's pet, I'm an alley cat.
You eat out of a polished tin can,
I eat out of the lion's mouth;
You dream of love, I dream of meat.

But your life's not easy, either,
Tough job, brother,
To have to wag your tail day in day out.

Turkish poet Orhan Veli (1914-1950)

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Reply #11 - June 15, 2011, 04:41 PM

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

Omar Khayyam

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Re: Poetry
Reply #12 - June 15, 2011, 05:07 PM

Quote from: IsLame on June 15, 2011, 04:41 PM
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

Omar Khayyam

Wow nice one Islame,

Omar Khayyum, sounds familiar, who was he again?
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Re: Poetry
Reply #13 - June 15, 2011, 08:05 PM

just some bloke that strung words together for a living

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Reply #15 - June 16, 2011, 06:40 AM

Before the Beginning

A confusion of sounds, an uncertain clarity.
Another day begins.
It is a room, half-lit,
and two bodies stretched out.
In my head I am lost
on a plain with no one.
The hours sharpen their blades.
But at my side, you are breathing:
buried deep, and remote,
you flow without moving.
Unreachable as I think of you,
touching you with my eyes,
watching you with my hands.
Dreams divide
and blood unites us:
we are a river of pulsebeats.
Under your eyelids the seed
of the sun ripens.
The world
is still not real;
time wonders:
all that is certain
is the heat of your skin.
In your breath I hear
the tide of being,
the forgotten syllable of the Beginning.

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Re: Poetry
Reply #16 - July 10, 2011, 01:15 PM

“A Spoken Lie Enforced by Blood” by Al-Maarri c. 1000AD (translated):

Had they been left alone with reason,

they would not have accepted a spoken lie;

but the whips were raised to strike them.

Traditions were brought to them,

and they were ordered to say,

‘We have been told the truth’;

If they refused, the sword was drenched with their blood.

They were terrified by scabbards of calamities,

and tempted by great bowls of food,

Offered in a lofty and condescending manner.

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Reply #17 - July 10, 2011, 01:16 PM

Also...

“Do not suppose the statements of the prophets to be true; they are all fabrications. Men lived comfortably till they came and spoiled life. The sacred books are only such a set of idle tales as any age could have and indeed did actually produce.”

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Re: Poetry
Reply #18 - July 10, 2011, 01:16 PM

One of al-Ma’arri’s most famous poems, “The Cheat of Sacred Rites” describes his general feelings towards religion:

O fools, awake! The rites you sacred hold

Are but a cheat contrived by men of old,

Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust

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Re: Poetry
Reply #19 - January 04, 2012, 08:55 AM

Does any of you know Nessrriinn?. she used to be a youtuber. she wrote very good texts. i'm secretly in love with her.
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Reply #20 - January 05, 2012, 10:54 PM

You and everyone else. Get in line.

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Re: Poetry
Reply #21 - January 23, 2012, 06:44 PM

Khalil Gibran! Yes, The Prophet is read and appreciated here.

Quote from: Saif Rahman on June 14, 2011, 10:15 PM
A beautiful poem by Khalil Gibran. ..... You may give them your love but not your thoughts, .. For they have their own thoughts.

But about Omar Khayaam (or Omar Nashapuri as my Iranian friends insist.) I wanted to post some pictures from the book I was given. I tried last week and gave up trying. The book was printed in Iran and sent to Britain by my friends parents. He works in my local Pizza takaway. They sent two copies of this book which contains the Rubayat in both Farsi and English (the Fitzgerald translation) to their son, my friend, who had sent them an early copy of my "Thus spake Omar Kayaam" song.

They had marked out in the Farsi poetry, the three verses that I had used in that early version which their son had sent to them. They had then sent it to their son along with another copy for him to read. The illustrations in the book are worth scanning and posting here. I have scanned some of the images last week but seem either incompetant or incapable for some other reason of posting them as picture files.
Obviously the book is of great sentimental value to me because of the way I was given the book. I think some of the pictures are just beautiful and if I could I would share them, here.

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