One of Rumi's most loved short poems: a person's cry for God is answered by the very fact that they were crying out — a parable about longing itself being the connection, not an obstacle to it.
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Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī — known simply as Rumi — was a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose verses on love,…
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Amir Khalighi
Amir Khalighi is the founder of Beloved Poetry. He is a poet in his own right — author of "Time Bends" and…