Daily Zahar

“It isn’t what you have, or who you are or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”   – Dale Carnegie (And I think of you all the time. Even the times when I say “oh am not thinking of her” it’s…

When you get older, plainer, saner When you remember all the danger we came from Burning like embers, falling, tender Long before the days of no surrender Years ago And well you know Smoke them if you got them ‘Cause it’s going down All I ever wanted was you I’ll never get to heaven ‘Cause…

She starts the song with a breath and it ends it with breath (whistling) like an extension of her voice. Just like everything started with a breath  and ends with a breath. And when the breath takes the place of the words, can there be any words to replace that? But.. Hush, hush Don’t say a…

Demedim mi, demedim mi Gönül sana söylemedim mi Muhabbet baldan tatl’olur Doyamazsın demedim mi  

“The intellect asked, what’s more painful than death? Love answered, separation from the Beloved is more painful than anything.” Rumi

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a…

“One can make you feel so much without a word”

It is like an illness: the desire to see someone, the strong, deep yearning. No, I have not explained it. I was working today, writing. My head was busy: my mind was filled with the work. Yet all the while I was conscious of a physical pain–a gnawing–as if a piece of me had been…

“Everything in life is a gift, a test, and a blessing, all at the same time.” — Nadir Keval Al-Fadl ibn Sahl said: “There is a blessing in calamity that the wise man should not ignore, for it erases sins, gives one the opportunity to attain the reward for patience, dispels negligence, reminds one of…

“Surely, fasting does not just mean to abstain from eating or drinking. It means refraining from bad deeds and bad speech , too. There are few people who are truly fasting, but many who are hungry.” Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.s)

The Happiness of the drop is to die in the river.

You can be the world’s biggest lover, you can be Leyla of Mejnun or Mejnun in Leyla, but who do you see when you close your eyes? Who can you find with your eyes closed? Can you imagine having someone in your heart for hundred years, thousand? Can you just pause for a moment and…

Walking on the streets without my silhouette , hallow emptiness cared by this vessel of mine. Sometimes is not heavy that what you carry with you, but it is the emptiness that is left in you.  Just like the ney hallow inside I was, weeping the separation of the reeds that took its root inside…

You are so bright that You fault the sunshine. The moon looks dark because of You. If You run around, even the sky will be too small. You are such an unprecedented Beloved. You are such a peerless Beauty. You came so late with so much difficulty, But you are going so quickly and easily.…

This is the poem for the time when you held the cup before me saying: “drink, drink now because if you don’t , I will pass the wine to somebody else”   –Rumi