Jamil Hussain

“The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages;
the eye has already made love with what it sees.

The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape:
the ear hears words that talk about all this.

When hearing takes place, character areas change;
but when you see, inner areas change.

If all you know about fire is what you have heard
see if the fire will agree to cook you!

Certain energies come only when you burn.
If you long for belief, sit down in the fire!

When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye.
But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Night and Sleep

“From
A tiny spark
May burst a unique flame,
Your luminous heart a new
Destiny may it
Claim.”
― Jamil Hussain

“Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Night and Sleep

“Without you the instruments would die.
One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss.
The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself.

Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone,
that what died last night can be whole today.

Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out?
I won't do it.

Either give me enough wine or leave me alone,
now that I know how it is
to be with you in constant conversation.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Night and Sleep