This Is Love
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From the Divan-e Shams
This poem appears in Rumi's Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi and reflects his Sufi quest for divine union. It treats love as a spiritual force that strips away ego and worldly attachments, using images of veils falling, stepping without feet, and seeing beyond ordinary sight to signal transcendence. The voice is intimate and celebratory, addressing the heart and the circle of lovers—an allusion to Rumi's mystical fellowship and his transformative relationship with Shams-e Tabrizi. Read as devotional, it centers on renunciation, inward vision, and the ecstatic aim of union with the Beloved.
Read Complete AnalysesThis is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; To regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast.
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