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 1    1, Prol|       reflect the shining of the SUN Of GOD.6~O friends, ye have
 2    1, 1   |         and lovers!~None but the sun can display the sun,~If
 3    1, 1   |          the sun can display the sun,~If you would see it displayed,
 4    1, 1   |         indeed, may indicate the sun's presence,~But only the
 5    1, 1   |         s presence,~But only the sun displays the light of life.~
 6    1, 1   |      evening talks,~But when the sun arises the "moon is split
 7    1, 1   |        naught so wondrous as the sun,~But the Sun of the soul
 8    1, 1   |     wondrous as the sun,~But the Sun of the soul sets not and
 9    1, 1   |   yesterday.~Though the material sun is unique and single,~We
10    1, 1   |         suns like to it.~But the Sun of the soul, beyond this
11    1, 1   |         compose the Masnavi.~The sun (Shams) of Tabriz is a perfect
12    1, 1   |     Tabriz is a perfect light,~A sun, yea, one of the beams of
13    1, 1   |         praise was heard of the "Sun of Tabriz,"~The sun of the
14    1, 1   |         the "Sun of Tabriz,"~The sun of the fourth heaven bowed
15    1, 1   |        pierce a mountain.~If the sun that illumines the world~
16    1, 1   | Hereafter impose silence on the 'Sun of Tabriz.'"~He said, "Thy
17    1, 5   |          arise from the light of sun and stars,~And inward colors
18    1, 6   |   becomes soul;~He speaks to the sun, and it becomes a fount
19    1, 6   |   compulsion,~The shining of the sun, and not a dark cloud.~Or,
20    1, 9   |         he has not a face like a sun,~He desires only night like
21    1, 9   |          the world, as He is the sun,~And every star in heaven
22    1, 9   |          heaven is a part of the sun.~That One Person is Himself
23    1, 10  |        of curtailment,~He is the sun of the spirit, not that
24    1, 10  |       and angels draw life.~That sun is hidden in the form of
25    1, 15  |          who had once beheld the Sun of "The Truth" to keep his
26    1, 15  |     straight at the light of the sun in heaven,~What need were
27    1, 15  |       guided by the light of the sun?~Neither moon nor planets
28    1, 15  |         one who saw directly the Sun of 'The Truth.'~The Moon 3
29    1, 15  |        naturally dark,~'Twas the Sun's revelation that gave me
30    1, 15  |          am dark compared to the Sun,~Though I am light compared
31    1, 15  |      enough to bear the dazzling Sun.~I have, as it were, mixed
32    1, 15  |          a star is lost when tho sun shines on it;~For then you
33    1, 15  |        shall burst forth and the sun arise~Every creature will
34    1, 16  |       One!~If Thou shouldst call sun and moon obscure,~If Thou
35    1, 17  |      grain of wheat eclipsed the sun Of Adam, 1~Like as the Dragon'
36    2, 1   |  travelers in the dark,~Till the sun of the prophets arose, and
37    2, 1   |      body that he bore;~When his sun proceeded from heaven on
38    2, 2   |            But the truth is, the sun's beams strike the wall,~
39    2, 2   |          ocean of pearls;~Yea, a sun that measures the heavens!~
40    2, 3   |        Joseph saw that brilliant sun,~He became so expert as
41    2, 3   |      from that junction~Became a sun of wit and acute of genius.~
42    2, 6   |        by step he ascended above sun and moon,~And so lagged
43    2, 8   |        and my hand bright as the sun;~From the reflection of
44    2, 8   |     reflection of that light the sun became a star.~Have not
45    2, 17  |         is named tree, sometimes sun,~Sometimes lake, and sometimes
46    3, 2   |       various kinds, O son, ~The sun shines alike on rocks and
47    3, 2   |      rocks and on gold. ~Yet the sun possesses a nearness to
48    3, 2   |         green are alike near the sun, ~Does the sun veil himself
49    3, 2   |          near the sun, ~Does the sun veil himself from either? ~
50    3, 2   |         from its nearness to the sun, ~What does it but more
51    3, 4   |      thawed by the warmth of the sun, recovered life, and immediately
52    3, 4   |           For that warmth of the sun kindles its lust,~And that
53    3, 5   |        Moses and Jesus when that Sun~Showered down water on the
54    3, 5   |      that you may hear from that Sun ~Things inexpressible in
55    3, 12  |         a drop of water, and the Sun in an atom, when late one
56    3, 12  |    gathered up into a drop, ~The Sun compressed into a single
57    3, 16  |      moon~Is more famed than the sun and moon of heaven?~Little
58    3, 17  |         as shadows, and when the sun shines in glory the shadows
59    3, 17  |      sends forth the heat of the sun, ~Like a dish heated red-hot
60    3, 18  |       You begin as a part of the sun, clouds, and stars, ~You
61    4, 2   |       abandon the worship of the sun and embrace Islam. 2 At
62    4, 2   |      without aid of wings, ~Like sun or full moon or new moon! ~
63    4, 4   |         God's shadow; God is the sun.~What power has the shadow
64    4, 4   |        has the shadow before the sun?~When a man is possessed
65    4, 6   |       and fled away. ~Clouds and sun, and moon and lofty stars, ~
66    4, 6   |            How know you that the sun is transitory? ~A mere worm
67    4, 9   |  Muhammad in heaven, O brilliant Sun!~Be also as Muhammad on
68    5, 3   |        is bright as the forenoon sun,~To disfigure it were a
69    5, 3   |         the light of the noonday sun. Everything but God is at
70    5, 8   |          the bright light of the sun.~In that stone its own properties
71    5, 8   |        not~It is filled with the sun's properties altogether;~
72    5, 8   |          the same as holding the sun dear, O beloved!~And if
73    5, 8   |      beloved!~And if it hold the sun dear in its heart,~'Tis
74    5, 8   |         itself dear,~Or hold the sun dear,~There is no difference
75    5, 8   |        an opponent of the mighty Sun.~Wherefore 'tis unlawful
76    5, 10  |       interpreted the meaning of sun and stars, ~Yea, he, that
77    5, 13  |           which is brighter than sun and moon!~Thou art hidden,
78    5, 13  |      turn away its eyes from the sun,~Still it is not veiled
79    5, 13  |     veiled from some idea of the sun;~Its very dread of the sun
80    5, 13  |       sun;~Its very dread of the sun frames an idea of the sun,~
81    5, 13  |        sun frames an idea of the sun,~And that idea scares it
82    5  (5) |          endure the sight of the sun, men cannot at once endure
83    6, 4   |        to the heat of the midday sun, and beating him with thorns.
84    6, 4   |      broken by the advent of the Sun of prophecy? or how can
85    6, 6   |         the pouring rain and the sun's heat;"~Till those men
86    6, 7   |        the rest of this from the Sun of truth!~In illustration
87    6, 7   |          of this world, when the sun is hidden,~He beheld God,
88    6, 9   |          which is as a soul,~The Sun is veiled for a while behind
89    6, 9   |         that soul-like body,~The Sun withdraws itself as from
90    6, 9   |     brought water,"~Or, "Lo! the sun emerges from the clouds;"~
91    6, 9   |          the lover as day to the sun,~The material sun is a veil
92    6, 9   |         to the sun,~The material sun is a veil over the face
93    6, 9   |      face~Is a worshipper of the sun; of such a one beware!~"
94    6, 9   |        like a moon waned in that sun.~That waning of lovers makes
95    6, 9   |          are only shadows of the Sun of the Truth, a cradle for