Don't Go Back to Sleep
Don't Go Back to Sleep - fact Summary
Sufi Call to Awakening
Rumi's short poem urges spiritual wakefulness, using dawn and a threshold image to dramatize a choice between ordinary life and divine awareness. The repeated imperative Don't go back to sleep
presses the reader to remain attentive, ask for one's true desire, and cross the liminal doorsill where two worlds meet. The open, round door suggests an available passage rather than an inaccessible goal. Fact: the poem reflects Rumi's Sufi orientation - his lifelong emphasis on vigilance, longing, and the pursuit of union with the divine - which shaped its themes and tone.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
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