Armand Amar, Jean-Paul Minali Bella, “Poem of the Atoms” Featuring Heroun Teboul, 2005, From the Album “Bab’ Aziz”
Rumi, whose poem is being sung, is a thirteenth century Persian poet and is considered a Sufi Saint by many. While Rumi was an Islamic poet, his poetry has a transcendent appeal among various cultures world wide. His poems contain a deep theme of creative love and the urge to rejoin the spirit to the divine. He believed that this was the goal of every living thing that moved, human, animal or mineral.
O’ day, arise!
Shine your light, the atoms are dancing.
Thanks to Him the universe is dancing.
overcome with ecstasy,
Free from body and mind
I’ll whisper in your ear where their dance is leading them.
All the atoms in the air and in the desert are dancing,
puzzled and drunken to the ray of light,
they seem insane.
All these atoms are not so different than we are,
happy or miserable,
perplexed and bewildered,
we are all beings in the ray of light from the beloved,
nothing can be said.
Rumi. I discovered his writings accidentally and i was amazed that the verbalizations of things i had no words for were coming from some other human. I did not share. I was afraid that Rumi’s words would not resonate with anyone else and would confirm my aloneness? Anyway, 40 years later and we are not alone. THanks for sharing.