Jalal al-Din Mohammad Rumi (1207-1273), was one of the greatest mystical poet of Iran. Here is a heart warming poem from his magnum opus Divan-e-Shams-e Tabrizi.
Passage
At morning-tide a moon appeared in the sky,
And descended from the sky and gazed on me.
Like a falcon which snatches a bird at the time of hunting,
That moon snatched me up and coursed over the sky.
When I looked at myself, I saw myself no more,
Because in that moon my body became by grace even as soul.
When I travelled in soul, I saw naught save the moon;
Till the secret of the Eternal Theophany was revealed.
The nine spheres of heaven were all merged in that moon,
The vessel of my being was completely hidden in the sea.
The sea broke into waves, and again Wisdom rose
And cast abroad a voice ; so it happened and thus it befell.
Foamed the sea, and at every foam-fleck
Something took figure and something was bodied forth.
Every foam-fleck of body, which received a sign from that sea,
Melted straightway and turned to spirit in this Ocean.
F. Hadland Davis. The Persian Mystics Jalaluddin Rumi. John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1912.
