I am not from anything, A poem by Rumi, Molana Jalaiddin

What is to be done, O Moslems? for I do not recognize myself.
I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem.
I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea;
I am not of Nature's mint, nor of the circling' heaven.
I am not of earth, nor of water, nor of air, nor of fire;
I am not of the empyrean, nor of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity.
I am not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of Saqsin
I am not of the kingdom of 'Iraqian, nor of the country of Khorasan
I am not of the this world, nor of the next, nor of Paradise, nor of Hell
I am not of Adam, nor of Eve, nor of Eden and Rizwan.
My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ;
'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved.
I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know J One I see, One I call.
He is the first, He is the last, He is the outward, He is the inward;
I know none other except 'Ya Hu' and 'Ya man Hu.'
I am intoxicated with Love's cup, the two worlds have passed out of my ken ;
I have no business save carouse and revelry.
If once in my life I spent a moment without thee,
From that time and from that hour I repent of my life.
If once in this world I win a moment with thee,
I will trample on both worlds, I will dance in triumph for ever.
O Shamsi Tabriz, I am so drunken in this world,
That except of drunkenness and revelry I have no tale to tell.

From Divan-i Shams

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[YASIcee]

Everyone should stop fighting where he was fro. Despite of all he wrote, that he is not from anywhere else, but only has one place, that his solu belongs to the beloved, this is really stupid to fight over. He lived in Turkey, and he is part of turkish history as well of his heritage, but he is very neutral and not prejudice like the rest of you. Leave Rumi's ancestry alone, his heart and soul had only one ancestry and this was the love to GOD.

[koheghazal1]

FKhorasani87 are you stupid at this time there was also no tajikistan , and the kingdom of the persian eksist today also not so i thnk you would agree that he is from balch . where is balch ? in Afghanistan

[timewilltell7]

see Osho - What is the Need of Nations...

[FKhorasani87]

@imranahmad131 im just showing facts. i dont care about his views.. he wasnt afghan, indian, southamerican, russian or english. just tajik khorasani.

respect.

[imranahmad131]

@FKhorasani87 . . . Dear, Rumi is saying that I belong only to the BELOVED. . Watch this video till the end. . . NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US DEAR BROTHER>

[retrogamerist]

Sent here from atheists united.

[FKhorasani87]

@ezrail2007 agree. all this are just fake states. fake borders and fascist goverments are separating us.

[FKhorasani87]

@koheghazal1 rumi was a tajik from balkh, khorasan zameen, eran zameen. there wasnt any afghanistan in those times. afghan mean pashtun, and he was tajik. stop fooling urself and stealing our history. rumi belong to the tajik/persian heritage.

[mosakin01]

to clear the confusion about the authorship ( for it did confuse me) i found out that rumi was the mouthpiece of shamsi tabriz as he himself proclaimed. this is very interesting for this is one rare or perhaps the only instance where one can sy that both the masters are the authors and indeed it is one instance which transcends authorship as all truth must. rumi did not use his name in any of the verses out of more than 50,000 verses that he left behind, ending his poems as Shams of Tabriz.

[ezrail2007]

you plug it all wrong. Rumi was from Afghanistan, or whether you should be completely accurate, he was from Iran / Persian, because of the time there are not these countries around iran all called persian / iran. the poems here are from the Divan-i Shams of Tabriz in Iran / Persian. one more thing they belonged to no relgion, although it had regular contact with Muslims and Christians community