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Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul and brims with exuberant energy and passion. Rich in natural imagery from horses to fishes, flowers to birds and rivers to stars, the poems have an elemental force that has remained undiminished through the centuries. Their themes - tolerance, goodness, the experience of God, charity and awareness through love - still resonate with millions of readers around the world.
About The Author
Called 'Jelaluddin Balkhi' by the Persians and Afghans, Rumi was born on September 30, 1207, in Balkh, Afghanistan, then a part of the Persian Empire. Between 1215 and 1220, he and his family fled the threat of the invading Mongols and emigrated to Konya, Turkey; it was sometime after this that he became known as 'Rumi' meaning 'from Roman Anatolia'. His father, Bahauddin Walad, was a theologian and a mystic, and after his death Rumi took over the role of sheikh in the dervish learning community in Konya. Rumi pursued the life of an orthodox religious scholar until 1244 when he encountered the wandering dervish, Shams of Tabriz. After an exchange of religious ideas Shams and Rumi became inseparable friends, transported into a world of pure, mystical, conversation. This intense relationship left Rumi's students feeling neglected, and, feeling the ill-will, Shams disappeared. After news of Shams came from Damascus, Rumi's son was sent to bring him back, and the mystical conversation, or sohbet, began again. After Shams' second disappearance (he was probably murdered), and a period spent searching for his lost friend, Rumi came to the conclusion that Shams was now a part of him. Further concluding that when he wrote poetry it was Shams writing through him, he called his huge collection of odes and quatrains The Works of Shams of Tabriz. Following Shams' death Rumi had two other mystical companions, firstly Saladin Zarkub, a goldsmith, and then, after Saladin's death, Husam Chelebi, Rumi's scribe and student. It was Husam that Rumi declared the source of his vast six-volume masterwork Mathnawi. After twelve years of work on this masterpiece Rumi died on December 17, 1273.
About The Author
Called 'Jelaluddin Balkhi' by the Persians and Afghans, Rumi was born on September 30, 1207, in Balkh, Afghanistan, then a part of the Persian Empire. Between 1215 and 1220, he and his family fled the threat of the invading Mongols and emigrated to Konya, Turkey; it was sometime after this that he became known as 'Rumi' meaning 'from Roman Anatolia'. His father, Bahauddin Walad, was a theologian and a mystic, and after his death Rumi took over the role of sheikh in the dervish learning community in Konya. Rumi pursued the life of an orthodox religious scholar until 1244 when he encountered the wandering dervish, Shams of Tabriz. After an exchange of religious ideas Shams and Rumi became inseparable friends, transported into a world of pure, mystical, conversation. This intense relationship left Rumi's students feeling neglected, and, feeling the ill-will, Shams disappeared. After news of Shams came from Damascus, Rumi's son was sent to bring him back, and the mystical conversation, or sohbet, began again. After Shams' second disappearance (he was probably murdered), and a period spent searching for his lost friend, Rumi came to the conclusion that Shams was now a part of him. Further concluding that when he wrote poetry it was Shams writing through him, he called his huge collection of odes and quatrains The Works of Shams of Tabriz. Following Shams' death Rumi had two other mystical companions, firstly Saladin Zarkub, a goldsmith, and then, after Saladin's death, Husam Chelebi, Rumi's scribe and student. It was Husam that Rumi declared the source of his vast six-volume masterwork Mathnawi. After twelve years of work on this masterpiece Rumi died on December 17, 1273.
On Rumi | |
On the tavern | p. 1 |
Who says words with my mouth? | p. 2 |
We have a huge barrel of wine | p. 2 |
A community of the spirit | p. 3 |
There's a strange frenzy in my head | p. 4 |
Drunks fear the police | p. 4 |
A children's game | p. 4 |
Gone, inner and outer | p. 5 |
The wine we really drink | p. 6 |
The many wines | p. 6 |
Special plates | p. 7 |
Burnt kabob | p. 7 |
The new rule | p. 8 |
This that is tormented | p. 8 |
On bewilderment | p. 9 |
I have five things to say | p. 9 |
Acts of helplessness | p. 11 |
Saladin's begging bowl | p. 12 |
Late, by myself | p. 12 |
Does sunset sometimes look | p. 13 |
Be melting snow | p. 13 |
The fragile vial | p. 14 |
Where are we? | p. 15 |
The friend comes into my body | p. 16 |
There is a light seed grain | p. 16 |
Do you think I know | p. 16 |
On silence | p. 17 |
The reed flute's song | p. 17 |
A thirsty fish | p. 19 |
Enough words? | p. 20 |
This world which is made of our love for emptiness | p. 21 |
Quietness | p. 22 |
Sanai | p. 22 |
A just-finishing candle | p. 23 |
Craftsmanship and emptiness | p. 24 |
Emptiness | p. 26 |
When you are with everyone but me | p. 28 |
No flag | p. 28 |
The food sack | p. 29 |
The night air | p. 30 |
Only breath | p. 32 |
There is a way between voice | p. 32 |
On spring giddiness | p. 33 |
Spring | p. 33 |
Where everything is music | p. 34 |
A great wagon | p. 35 |
Today, like every other day | p. 36 |
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing | p. 36 |
The breeze at dawn | p. 36 |
I would love to kiss you | p. 37 |
Daylight, full of small dancing particles | p. 37 |
They try to say what you are | p. 37 |
Come to the orchard in spring | p. 37 |
Spring is Christ | p. 37 |
Shreds of steam | p. 38 |
The steambath | p. 39 |
The ground cries out | p. 39 |
Unfold your own myth | p. 40 |
Not a day on any calendar | p. 41 |
Flutes for dancing | p. 42 |
The shape of my tongue | p. 42 |
The grasses | p. 43 |
The Sheikh who played with children | p. 44 |
Let the lover be disgraceful | p. 46 |
All day and night, music | p. 46 |
On separation | p. 47 |
Sometimes I forget completely | p. 47 |
A man and a woman arguing | p. 47 |
A night full of talking that hurts | p. 50 |
An empty garlic | p. 50 |
The diver's clothes lying empty | p. 51 |
Red shirt | p. 51 |
My worst habit | p. 52 |
Don't let your throat tighten | p. 52 |
Dissolver of sugar | p. 53 |
Pale sunlight | p. 53 |
On the desire-body | p. 54 |
Sexual urgency, what a woman's laughter can do, and the nature of true virility | p. 55 |
Tattooing in Qazwin | p. 61 |
The center of the fire | p. 63 |
Someone who goes with half a loaf | p. 64 |
The mystery does not get clearer | p. 64 |
Muhammad and the huge eater | p. 64 |
Fasting | p. 69 |
Bismillah | p. 70 |
Wean yourself | p. 70 |
After the meditation | p. 71 |
The dog in the doorway | p. 73 |
The light you give off | p. 74 |
Tending two shops | p. 74 |
Think that you're gliding out | p. 75 |
On Sohbet | p. 76 |
Talking in the night | p. 77 |
Talking through the door | p. 78 |
A mouse and a frog | p. 79 |
The long string | p. 80 |
The force of friendship | p. 84 |
The vigil | p. 85 |
Two friends | p. 87 |
The servant who loved his prayers | p. 89 |
Imra'u 'l-Qays | p. 90 |
All rivers at once | p. 92 |
The blocked road | p. 93 |
A babbling child | p. 93 |
Who sees inside from outside? | p. 94 |
Constant conversation | p. 94 |
Bonfire at midnight | p. 95 |
In between stories | p. 95 |
The question | p. 97 |
The music | p. 98 |
I saw you last night in the gathering | p. 98 |
The tent | p. 98 |
Friend, our closeness is this | p. 99 |
Listen to presences | p. 99 |
On being a lover | p. 100 |
The sunrise ruby | p. 100 |
Water from your spring | p. 101 |
You sweep the floor | p. 102 |
Each note | p. 102 |
Granite and wineglass | p. 103 |
Buoyancy | p. 104 |
Music master | p. 105 |
When I am with you | p. 106 |
The minute I heard my first love story | p. 106 |
We are mirror as well as the face | p. 106 |
I want to hold you close | p. 107 |
Someone digging in the ground | p. 107 |
The phrasing must change | p. 108 |
The guest house | p. 109 |
On the pickaxe | p. 110 |
Who makes these changes? | p. 110 |
Why wine is forbidden | p. 111 |
On resurrection day | p. 111 |
The dream that must be interpreted | p. 112 |
The pickaxe | p. 113 |
Zikr | p. 114 |
The core of masculinity | p. 115 |
I honor those who try | p. 116 |
Dervish at the door | p. 116 |
On flirtation | p. 118 |
Omar and the old poet | p. 118 |
An Egypt that doesn't exist | p. 120 |
Chinese art and Greek art | p. 121 |
In your light I learn | p. 122 |
Drumsound rises on the air | p. 122 |
Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity? | p. 123 |
On union | p. 124 |
Gnats inside the wind | p. 124 |
Meadow-sounds | p. 125 |
Ayaz and the king's pearl | p. 126 |
Put this design in your carpet | p. 128 |
Hallaj | p. 129 |
We three | p. 130 |
I am filled with you | p. 131 |
On the Sheikh | p. 132 |
Chickpea to cook | p. 132 |
I have such a teacher | p. 133 |
Sublime generosity | p. 134 |
Like this | p. 135 |
A bowl | p. 137 |
Wax | p. 138 |
No room for form | p. 138 |
Childhood friends | p. 139 |
The mouse and the camel | p. 142 |
These gifts from the friend | p. 144 |
The lame goat | p. 144 |
On elegance | p. 145 |
Father reason | p. 145 |
A craftsman pulled a reed | p. 146 |
Humble living does not diminish | p. 146 |
New moon, Hilal | p. 147 |
Body intelligence | p. 151 |
The seed market | p. 153 |
On howling | p. 155 |
Love dogs | p. 155 |
Cry out in your weakness | p. 156 |
The debtor Sheikh | p. 157 |
You that come to birth | p. 160 |
On the unseen | p. 161 |
Nasuh | p. 161 |
Moses and the Shepherd | p. 165 |
Joy at sudden disappointment | p. 168 |
If the beloved is everywhere | p. 171 |
Story water | p. 171 |
On roughness | p. 173 |
Rough metaphors | p. 173 |
Birdwings | p. 174 |
I come before dawn | p. 175 |
Checkmate | p. 175 |
An awkward comparison | p. 177 |
Two kinds of intelligence | p. 178 |
Two ways of running | p. 178 |
The importance of gourdcrafting | p. 181 |
Breadmaking | p. 183 |
On Solomon | p. 186 |
Sheba's gifts to Solomon | p. 186 |
Solomon to Sheba | p. 188 |
Sheba's hesitation | p. 188 |
Sheba's throne | p. 189 |
Solomon's crooked crown | p. 190 |
The far mosque | p. 191 |
A bird delegation came to Solomon | p. 192 |
On gambling | p. 193 |
If you want what visible reality | p. 193 |
Gamble everything | p. 193 |
In a boat down a fast-running creek | p. 194 |
The three fish | p. 194 |
Send the chaperones away | p. 198 |
When I remember your love | p. 199 |
All our lives we've looked | p. 199 |
The gift of water | p. 199 |
On Jesus | p. 201 |
I called through your door | p. 201 |
Jesus on the lean donkey | p. 202 |
What Jesus runs away from | p. 204 |
Christ is the population | p. 204 |
There's nothing ahead | p. 205 |
On Baghdad | p. 206 |
In Baghdad, dreaming of Cairo : in Cairo, dreaming of Baghdad | p. 206 |
Dying, laughing | p. 212 |
Human honesty | p. 213 |
Dalqak's message | p. 214 |
The cat and the meat | p. 216 |
Sheikh Kharraqani and his wretched wife | p. 217 |
The snake-catcher and the frozen snake | p. 220 |
Polishing the mirror | p. 222 |
Ali in battle | p. 223 |
On the frame | p. 225 |
The king and the handmaiden and the doctor | p. 225 |
The three brothers and the Chinese princess | p. 233 |
On children running through | p. 238 |
I used to be shy | p. 238 |
Green ears | p. 239 |
Birdsong brings relief | p. 243 |
The way of love is not | p. 243 |
Let your throat-song | p. 244 |
I have phrases and whole pages | p. 244 |
You've so distracted me | p. 244 |
I'm not saying this right | p. 244 |
The least figure | p. 245 |
I reach for a piece of wood | p. 245 |
On being woven | p. 246 |
Of being woven | p. 246 |
The waterwheel | p. 247 |
The granary floor | p. 248 |
A song about a donkey | p. 250 |
Elephant in the dark | p. 252 |
On secrecy | p. 253 |
A wished-for song | p. 253 |
A basket of fresh bread | p. 254 |
When we pray alone | p. 256 |
One who wraps himself | p. 257 |
Deliberation | p. 258 |
The private banquet | p. 259 |
We are the night ocean | p. 260 |
Which is worth more, a crowd | p. 260 |
On majesty | p. 261 |
This we have now | p. 261 |
The visions of Daquqi | p. 262 |
The worm's waking | p. 265 |
The freshness | p. 266 |
Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle | p. 266 |
The morning wind spreads | p. 267 |
Slave, be aware | p. 267 |
On evolving | p. 268 |
A dove in the eaves | p. 268 |
We have this way of talking | p. 270 |
This piece of food | p. 270 |
In the slaughterhouse of love | p. 270 |
The witness, the darling | p. 270 |
In the arc of your mallet | p. 271 |
Unmarked boxes | p. 272 |
The milk of millennia | p. 273 |
The you pronoun | p. 273 |
Birdsong from inside the egg | p. 274 |
Say I am you | p. 275 |
On the turn | p. 277 |
Inside water, a waterwheel | p. 278 |
You have said what you are | p. 278 |
A secret turning in us | p. 278 |
This moment this love comes to rest | p. 278 |
Keep walking, though there's no place | p. 278 |
Walk to the well | p. 279 |
I circle your nest | p. 279 |
No better love than love | p. 279 |
Some nights stay up | p. 279 |
I am so small | p. 279 |
When you feel your lips | p. 280 |
The sun is love | p. 280 |
Something opens our wings | p. 280 |
Held like this | p. 280 |
I stand up, and this one of me | p. 280 |
I have lived on the lip | p. 281 |
Real value comes with madness | p. 281 |
Dance, when you're broken open | p. 281 |
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ISBN: 9780140449532
ISBN-10: 0140449531
Series: Penguin Classics
Published: 1st August 2004
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Penguin UK
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 19.2 x 12.8 x 2
Weight (kg): 0.245
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