April 2022: Resurrect The Healer Within
/خواهی خود را بدو بدوزی
برخیز و حجاب نفس بردر
“You want to be stitched to the heart of God—
Resurrect and take away your veiled ego. “
~Rumi
Source: Divane Shams, Ghazal 1052
Translated by Dr. Fariba Enteshari
© Rumi Educational Center
Reflection on the Quote:
A message from Dr. Fariba Enteshari, Founder & Executive Director
Many months ago, I elaborated on one of Rumi’s poems about Jesus and the resurrection. Shortly after that I got a call from my poet friend with this question, “Isn’t resurrection Catholic?” Perplexed, I thought about her question.
Rumi used the concept of the word ‘resurrection’ so freely that it never occurred to me that a word belonged to anyone or any ideology.
The word ‘resurrection’ for Rumi indicates our complex ability to spark our spirit within our body while we are alive. In many poems he calls us to resurrect, and to resurrect yet again and again”. Rumi believes in the power of our spirit, and our ability to connect to the Source. He passionately wants us to reconnect with the aspects of our younger self that we have left behind. The demands of life force us to make decisions relationally and logically in order to survive. Forgotten parts have become buried deep within and caused us to be disconnected from our authentic self. This disconnection causes us to search for a way out. Part of what we gave up was a piece of soul. Many of us sacrifice so many attributes of who we really are deep down, for the sake of fitting in, that we forget who we are in essence. Rumi rallies us to give new life to these forgotten parts of us.
Only the Messiah, the healer within us, can resurrect to the renewal of the whole self. We can all connect to the healer part of us when we remember who we are, the spark of the Divine, and remember the Source of our existence, Love.
ای خفته به یاد یار برخیز
میآید یار غار برخیز
“To you, who sleep away your life, remember the Source, your beloved— and resurrect—know that the beloved will be with you through hard times and through joys, resurrect!”
~Rumi
Source: Divane Shams, Ghazal 1190
-Dr. Fariba Enteshari