Ghazal · Peace
What Is to Be Done, O Moslems? (opening lines)
by Rumi (Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī) · translated by R. A. Nicholson
What is to be done, O Moslems? for I do not recognise myself.
I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem.
I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea;
This poem is in the public domain. First published in Selected Poems from the Dīvāni Shamsi Tabrīz, 1898.
“What Is to Be Done, O Moslems? (opening lines)” by Rumi (Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī) — quilloak.com/poems/rumi-neither-christian-nor-jew
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