When I was in the desert city, in the center of Iran, I loved listening to the pieces of music imagining the sense of being in nature,  the sound of the sea, birds singing, and river roaring.

I remember I used to listen to some specific music. I would put on my headphones, close my eyes and imagine the sea, the forest, and the river. It's like I'm there. And I would experience the beautiful caress of nature up close, even though I was trapped in the desert.

I had promised myself that if one day I went to the forest, the sea, or the mountains, I would take with me the beautiful music that gave me the strength of heart and listen to it there. I didn't want to forget that heartwarming feeling.

… Rumi's fascinating poem and the beautiful song by Homayoun Shajarian, a great Iranian singer, is one of them.

“How Would I Know”, one of the most famous poems of "Rumi", the famous Persian poet, that has puzzled a lot of people for centuries. It is said that  “Rumi”, The passionate mystic, composed this poem from a strange dream he had. A dream that probably put him into uncertainty…

How would I know  this passion

Would drive me to such craziness

It would make my heart hellish, make my two eyes a river

How would I know that the flood would suddenly grab me

I would be like a ship, plunged into a bloody ocean

Then a terrible wave struck that ship and tore it to pieces

Different rotations throw pieces apart

A whale emerge from that sea (And swallow up the water)

So such an endless sea becomes a desert suddenly

After all the transformations, neither the sea nor the desert  was there anymore

How would I know what happened after that?

While every “answer” is drowned in many “unanswered” questions

There are so many “How would I knows”

There are so many “How would I knows”

But I do not know (any answer for them!)

Because I, myself drank a sip from the same sea (and got drunk!)

(And I was ecstasies) when I saw these visions!