MAY THE LORD OF ALL PENS GUIDE THESE HANDS TO BE HONORED IN THIS TASK OF TRANSLATING THE GREAT MASTER'S WORDS HERE FOR KEEPSAKE!
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| Shams as seen by master H. Behzaad |
How does one begin to put SHAMS in words?! The Rumi that the west has come to adore lately through the works of such lovers as Mr. Coleman Barks would not be, had he not been touched by SHAMS-E-TABRIZ! Yet Shams himself says: " It is for the Grace of Rumi, if any should come to hear/read my words"
The name Shams in Farsi and Arabic means "the Sun", that which illuminates the world! Indeed that is exactly what this man did for the world and has not yet ran out of its original force!
For all the records of when and how, we do not have an exact time of his birth, of his personal life, or for that matter his death on record anywhere(reliable). Here is some help, Rumi's timeline is 1207-1273 AD) in his mid to late thirties he met Shams reportedly a 60 or so year old man in the town of Ghoonieh(qunieh) in Turkey.
I shall not give any details as to where and how I will come by the materials I'll be using for this work, I could care less for the "proper" book works or copyrights or listing of the references, for that is not how we work. If the reader of these lines should be blessed enough to have come across this work, let him/her be glad and attentive! Important, is not what book makers keep!
Shams by his own admission was not fond of writing because as he put it "no one understands"! We know that because of his mother tongue (Turkish from Tabriz of Iran), communicating in Farsi or Arabic(though he could read both) was not easy for him. These being the two major literary languages of the day. But in reality, words never did serve him well, nor did his raggedy looks or mean disposition. Like a true master of time/space he could be in many places at once, travel at will and knew Quantum before Quantum was a science!! How could then a man of such stature communicate in mere words? It would take the silver tongue of Rumi to share Shams with the world. "I am looking for a soul that can withstand my presence and receive my essence" He said just before he embarked upon the journey which would ultimately bring him to his beloved Rumi. ماشاالله
So, friends as this may end up being a book, bear with me and know that from time to time I will add more historical data, but never forget that it is the message I so humbly hope to deliver not facts and figures! This time master touched my life in 1954 for the first time and again in 1984, and has not let go since! In total tears and in absolute awe stricken discipleship, my hands shake as the words get translated! Never mind if you don't get this yet, neither do I!
I do wish to acknowledge and kiss the hands of Dr. NASER-ALDIN-SAHEB-AL ZAMANI for his hard work on the book "THE THIRD SCRIPT" which made most of this possible. This being a blog at Google, the posts are dated as published not in any order of historical or relevance importance. I will however, number each post in the title, and hope that in the event of publication elsewhere(no copyrights for me either, this is free service on my part) the numbered posts are used as an order of publication.
to keep this post as the top post for example, I have given it a published date of Dec,2019! It is a preface of sort after all.
