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On September 30th, 1207, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Mawlānā, Mawlawī, was born in the city of Balkh, the capital of Persia (today, located in northern Afghanistan). Rumis's family immigrated to Konya (modern day Turkey) after Persia was invaded by the Mongol army. He passed away in December of 1273. 

He grew up in a very religious, Islamic family. After he met the Shams of Tabriz (wandering dervish), his life journey takes a turn. It was this meeting that changed his life's course to becoming a Sufi poet. He is admired as one of the most spiritual and mystic poets in history. He wrote Masnavi Ma'navi which includes more than 20,000 lines of didactic poetry and Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi which contains more than 40,000 verses. 


Rumi is a deeply spiritual thinker; his poems are very deep on the realm of spirituality. It is an invitation of love and unity to all souls and beings. Especially these days, with all the division we face, his words need to be heard more to shape harmonies. 

My first love story

10/23/2020

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The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
 
The Way of Love
The Way of Love is not a subtle argument. The door there is
devastation. Birds make great circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall.
And by falling, they're given wings.

Pilgrimage
O you who've gone on pilgrimage
-- where are you? Where, O where?
Here, here is the Beloved
-- O come now, come, O come!
Your friend, he is your neighbour,
He is next to your house --
You, erring in the desert
-- What air of love is this?

 
Love has nothing to do with the five sense and the six directions
Love has nothing to do with
the five senses and the six directions:
its goal is only to experience
the attraction exerted by the Beloved.
Afterwards, perhaps, permission
will come from God:
the secrets that ought to be told with be told
with an eloquence nearer to the understanding
that these subtle confusing allusions.
The secret is partner with none
but the knower of the secret:
in the sceptic's ear
the secret is no secret at all.

Mathnawi III, 1417-1424
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Lovers

10/23/2020

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O lovers, lovers it is time
to set out from the world.
I hear a drum in my soul's ear
coming from the depths of the stars.

Our camel driver is at work;
the caravan is being readied.
He asks that we forgive him
for the disturbance he has caused us,
He asks why we travelers are asleep.

Everywhere the murmur of departure;
the stars, like candles
thrust at us from behind blue veils,
and as if to make the invisible plain,
a wondrous people have come forth.


The Divani of Shams of tabriz, X
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Self Interest

10/23/2020

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Having died of self-interest,
she risks everything and asks for nothing.
Love gambles away every gift God bestows.
 
Without cause God gave us Being;
without cause, give it back again.

Mathnawi VI, 1967-1974
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Love is Reckless

10/23/2020

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Love is reckless; not reason.
Reason seeks a profit.
Love comes on strong, consuming herself, unabashed.

Yet, in the midst of suffering,
Love proceeds like a millstone,
hard surfaced and straightforward.

Having died to self-interest,
she risks everything and asks for nothing.
Love gambles away every gift God bestows.

Without cause God gave us Being;
without cause, give it back again.
Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion.

Religion seeks grace and favor,
but those who gamble these away are God's favorites,
for they neither put God to the test
nor knock at the door of gain and loss.

— Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)
Mathnawi VI.1967-1974
translated by Kabir Helminski with Lail Fouladvend​


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