Without Love…
16 April 2010
What a moving quatrain by Rumi
Without love,
all worship is a burden,
all dancing is a chore,
all music is mere noise.
All the rain of heaven may fall into the sea.
Without love,
not one drop could become a pearl.
– Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva
A Garden Beyond Paradise
Bantam Books, 1992
Courtesy: Sunlight’s interpretation of Quatrain 598
loved it. that is why they say, to understand mathnawi better sing it
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Thankyou for this. I have copied it to my blog. I hope you don’t mind.
Sharam Shiva translates Rumi from the heart, unlike many who do it with their head.
I need persian text of this quatrain.