Rumi	Write for The Iranian Editorial policy

Let your water flow, and you nurture the young tree;

Turn your back, and you uproot me.

I was dust beneath thorns' feet, I was dry.

You have raised me, Moon: I am one with the sky.

#1792: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
Zara Houshmand's features index

RECOMMENDED

Rumi: The Life Teachings and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi
By Frankin D. Lewis

The Essential Rumi
American bestseller
By Coleman Barks (Translator)

Comment for The Iranian letters section