By Yunus Emre Let your love burn the lovers, O Messenger,Let your love’s wine quench them, O Messenger This lover of yours spent on your path,Sun to both the worlds you are, O Messenger Let your intercession be for these lovers,Life to lovers’ bodies you are, O Messenger That the Lord loved you made you… Continue reading

By Yunus Emre Come O friend, If you seek The Truth,Without a Perfect Guide this can’t beIf you seek the Messenger’s beauty,Without a Perfect Guide this can’t be Oh how many went forth seeking that,Whomever sought found trouble’s cureEven if you read a thousand’s worth,Without a Perfect Guide this can’t be Come now friends let… Continue reading

By Yunus Emre My heart has fallen for this love, Come see what Love has done to meI gave my mind to this endeavor, Come see what Love has done to me I walk burning, burning; Using blood Love has colored meI am neither sane nor mad, Come see what Love has done to me… Continue reading

By Yunus Emre My commentary on this poem can be found here Why do you groan, O Watermill; For I’ve troubles, I groanI fell in love with the Lord, For It do I groan They found me on a mountain, My arms and wings they pluckedSaw me fit for a watermill; For I’ve troubles, I… Continue reading

By Yunus Emre Dervish-hood says to me, You can not be a dervishOh what may I say to you, You can not be a dervish Needs guts of stone, Needs eyes brimming tearsNeeds be softer than sheep, You can not be a dervish Needs be unarmed with beaters, Needs be tongueless with scornersNeeds be passion-less,… Continue reading

By Yunus Emre The worlds flooded with Light, The night Muhammad was bornBeliever and hypocrite differed, The night Muhammad was born Muhammad appeared suddenly, Disbelieving minds baffledChurches fell collapsed, The night Muhammad was born A Light was hurled from heaven, The Seven joined the FortyMonks turned speechless, The night Muhammad was born Lights descended down… Continue reading

By Yunus Emre I am that matchless pearl unseen by the sea,I am that drop within which is the sea Come see waves wondrous, view seas invisible,How endless oceans can hide within a drop With ‘I Am The Truth’ not of Oneness did Mansur speak,In the field of love did the Friend hang me tress-like… Continue reading

By Yunus Emre I have no decision in this, I arrived only to leaveI am a merchant with goods aplenty, I arrived only to sell I did not arrive for quarrel, My duty is only for loveHearts are The Friend’s dwelling, I arrived only to build hearts I am drunk on madness for Him, Only… Continue reading