BE MELTING SNOW by Mevlana Jalaluddeen Rumi (K.S)

Totally conscious, and apropos of nothing, you come to see me.
Is someone here? I ask.
The moon. The full moon is inside your house.

My friends and I go running out into the street.
I’m in here, comes a voice from the house, but we aren’t listening.
We’re looking up at the sky.
My pet nightingale sobs like a drunk in the garden.
Ringdoves scatter with small cries, Where, Where.
It’s midnight. The whole neighbourhood is up and out
in the street thinking, The cat burglar has come back.
The actual thief is there too, saying out loud,
Yes, the cat burglar is somewhere in this crowd.
No one pays attention.

Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God,
God is in the look of your eyes,
in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self,
or things that have happened to you
There’s no need to go outside.

Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.

A white flower grows in quietness.
Let your tongue become that flower.

Translated by Coleman Barks

REFERENCES FROM QUR’AN TO THINK:

Qur’an [Al-Bakara 2/186]:

وَإِذَا سَأَلَكَ عِبَادِي عَنِّي فَإِنِّي قَرِيبٌ أُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُوا لِي وَلْيُؤْمِنُوا بِي لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْشُدُونَ

Wa ‘Idhā Sa’alaka `Ibādī `Annī Fa’innī Qarībun ‘Ujību Da`wata Ad-Dā`i ‘Idhā Da`āni Falyastajībū Lī Wa Līu’uminū Bī La`allahum Yarshudūna

When my servants ask thee concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them): I listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he calleth on Me: let them also, with a will, listen to My call, and believe in Me: that they may walk in the right way

Qur’an [Al-Qaf 50/16]:

وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ وَنَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِ نَفْسُهُ وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ

Wa Laqad Khalaqnā Al-’Insāna Wa Na`lamu Mā Tuwaswisu Bihi Nafsuhu Wa Naĥnu ‘Aqrabu ‘Ilayhi Min Ĥabli Al-Warīdi

Verily, It was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein.