Any Chance Meeting
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In Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
This poem appears in Rumi's Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi, a principal collection of his lyric, mystical verse addressed to a spiritual beloved. That context helps: many poems in the collection invoke a divine presence Rumi often names the Friend. Here ordinary encounters — a gathering or chance meeting — are read as moments when a radiant, jewel-like presence appears and transforms ordinary matter. Knowing the poem's placement in Divan-e Shams frames it as devotional and mystical rather than merely anecdotal.
Read Complete AnalysesIn every gathering, in any chance meeting on the street, there is a shine, an elegance rising up. Today I recognized that that jewel-like beauty is the presence, our loving confusion, the glow in which watery clay gets brighter than fire, the one we call the Friend.
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