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Go, knock at the door of your own heart

25 January 2008

There’s a basket full of loaves on your head,
yet you’re begging for crusts of bread from door to door.
Pay attention to your own head, abandon giddiness.
Why are you knocking at every other door?
Go, knock at the door of your own heart.

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Yek sapad por-enn tor bar farq-e sar
to hami khvhi lab-e n dar be-dar
Dar sar-e khvod pich hel khireh-sari
raw dar del zan cher bar har dari

Rumi
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahy¡ Monastra)

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3 Comments to “Go, knock at the door of your own heart”

  1. Muhammad Shahzaib Khan

    bah bah! che khoobi!

  2. Babar was the first Mugal Emperior of India. He built BABARI MASZID .

  3. Naseem AhAmed Sahib : Seems you are from Madras/Chennai., because Madrasis/Chennai`ites write the name Ahmed that way ! Anyways., Babri Masjid is not named after Mughal Emperor Babar. The site of Babri Masjid was “Rocky” and that is the reason for its naming by its builder Mir Baqi. There are no historic/archeological evidence(s) of any temple on the site of the former Babri Masjid. It was pure manufactured history (hate bank politics) but unfortunately India fell for it in 1992. It was a huge set-back for the Nation… a blot in the purest sense of the word. It was fraud perpetrated on the Nation of India (in the name of Hindutva). These Hindutva-Talibans will not rest., UNTIL they turn India into a Hindu Afghanistan.

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