FROM BOOKS | Osman Nuri Topbas

Affinity

If you are rosewater, your place is among bright faces. If you are filth, everywhere you are a...

Without emancipation from the passions of this earthly body, It is impossible to prostrate before...

Had I but briefly described your inner world, You would have been terrified; Fear might very well...

The yearning of lovers for each other is a blessed act. In particular, if the one who yearns is...

“Does a stone blossom even in the spring time? Be as the soil so that roses and other flowers...

Go to the graveyard. Sit there for a while in silence. Listen to the voices of the mute! Rumi

If you want to please me, Do not forget that it depends on pleasing people. Rumi

Do not be deceived, O human being, by the pride and fun of this world! Do not be afraid, even if...

Look, O disciple, at the beauty in the mirror! But do not be deceived by the lie in it, For the...

Stay silent if you are not Majnun, For the one who has not attained that love, Layla is just a form...

There is no existence remaining in my body except you, O my beloved! I will therefore disappear in...

Those who have pure hearts are freed from colors and smells. They easily see a beauty in every...

As the good-looking look at a mirror, The generous look at the weak and the poor! Mirrors reflect...

I was dead, yet became alive, I was a tear yet became a smile, I entered the ocean of love, And...