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The Rumi Returns Series: Exploring Rumi's Mystical Poems of Passion with Recitation and Commentary
"Molana" Jalaledin Rumi (1207-1273) was a poet and a scholar, a Sufi mystic, a learned theologian, and a seeker of the Divine inbibed in every human being, which is the ineffable meaning of life. He was an orthodox, sober professor until he met a wandering Sage – Shams of Tabriz (Persia) and was transformed into an enraptured lover of God. Through his life, teachings and poetry, he seeks to convey this meaning which can be found in this inner-dwelling divine of every human being.
Even though, our humanity, Rumi believed, has become longingly separated from this state of divine union— like “a reedflute torn from the reedbed", he uses his spontaneous poetry to remind us and re-kindle our memory so we can regain we have lost and to help us retrieve it. This kind of life-restoring poetry, is beyound spiritual and cultural boundaries and goes to the very heart and source of our humanity.
His spiritual and literary influence is pervasive. R.A. Nicholson declared him “the greatest mystical poet of any age.” He composed over 70,000 verses of spontaneous (!) poetry of divine love and ecstatic illumination.
Molana Rumi was born in Balkh (some have conjectured, Wakhsh) , then part of Persia and died in Konya, now part of Turkey. His poetry is in the Persian langauge (Farsi).
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What you in the mirror, clearly behold
The Sage has already seen in a brick
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Rumi's main works
| 42,000 verses |
Book of Shams -- Divane Shams |
| 26,000 verses |
Couplets of Inner Meaning -- Masnavi Maanavi |
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Majales |
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Fih-e-ma-fih |
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Quatrains -- Robaiyat |
Comments (1)
Afshin said
at 4:54 am on Dec 10, 2008
Dear Ali,
Next week 17Dec, is "GHADIR" ceremony. congratulations this great holy ceremony and near that is Molana's ceremony in Ghounieh(turkey).
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