My only safety; this shaky soaring
That skins all hope, all desire…
All I am is a bead on your string
Keep turning me with one finger.
Translated by Andrew Harvey. Reprinted by permission.
From the Spring 2010 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 26, No. 2)
© 2010 Andrew Harvey
Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, and teacher, and the author of over 30 books, including the critically acclaimed Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi.
Sign up for his online course A Year of Rumi to receive a hand-selected Rumi poem every day for 365 days. Rumi was a Sufi mystic and poet. Born in the Persian empire in the 13th-century, his work remains influential and much-loved around the world.
Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, and teacher, and the author of over 30 books, including the critically acclaimed Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi.
Sign up for his online course A Year of Rumi to receive a hand-selected Rumi poem every day for 365 days. Rumi was a Sufi mystic and poet. Born in the Persian empire in the 13th-century, his work remains influential and much-loved around the world.
