Joyful World
- Poet:
- Saadi
- Era:
- 13th century
- Upbeat Joyful Blues
Music & vocals AI-generated · poem in the public domain
The poem
به جهان خرم از آنم که جهان خرم از اوست
عاشقم بر همه عالم که همه عالم از اوست
Joyful in the World Because of Him · Kolliyat of Saadi — Mavaʿez (homiletic ghazals)
About the poem
Saadi's radiant ghazal of divine immanence: the poet is joyful in the world because the world draws its joy from the Beloved, and he loves the whole of creation because all of it flows from that single Source.
Meaning & background
«به جهان خرم از آنم که جهان خرم از اوست / عاشقم بر همه عالم که همه عالم از اوست» — “I am joyful in the world because the world is joyful through Him; I am in love with the whole universe because the whole universe is His.” Saadi of Shiraz (13th century) compresses a whole theology of divine immanence into a single couplet: creation is lovable because everything in it flows from the One.
Where Mowlana's reed weeps over separation, this ghazal answers with presence — joy itself becomes a form of devotion. The session keeps that brightness with an upbeat, joyful blues setting.
Though endlessly quoted simply as “Saadi,” the couplet's home is precise: it opens a ghazal in the Mavaʿez — the homiletic section of his Kolliyat — rather than the love ghazals; fitting, since the poem is really a sermon on sacred joy. Few Persian lines are more anthologized: the bayt turns up in calligraphy, on inscriptions, and in school memory as the classic statement that loving the world is a way of loving its Maker.
Listen