Book V.STORY I.AFTER the usual address to Husamu-‘d-Din follows a comment on the precept addressed to Abraham, “Take four birds and draw them towards thee, and cut them in pieces.
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Masnavi e Manavi : The Three Fishes
Book 4.Story V. The Three Fishes This story, which is taken from the book of Kalila and Damnah,1 is as follows. There was in a secluded place a lake, which was fed by a running stream, and in this lake were three fishes, one very wise,
Masnavi e Manavi : The Sufi and the Qazi.
A sick man laboring under an incurable disease went to a physician for advice. The physician felt his pulse, and perceived that no treatment would cure him, and therefore told him to go away and do whatever he had a fancy for.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Travelers who ate the Young Elephant.
Book III. Story I. The Travelers who ate the Young Elephant. A PARTY of travelers lost their way in a wilderness, and were well nigh famished with hunger. While they were considering what to do, a sage came up and condoled with them on their unfortunate plight.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Sage and the Peacock.
Book 5. STORY III. The Sage and the Peacock. A sage went out to till his field, and saw a peacock busily engaged in destroying his own plumage with his beak. At seeing this insane self-destruction the sage could not refrain himself, but cried out to the peacock to forbear from mutilating himself and spoiling […]
Masnavi e Manavi :The Lover and his Mistress.
Book IV. STORY I. The Lover and his Mistress.THE fourth book begins with an address to Husamu-‘d-Din, and this is followed by the story of the lover and his mistress, already commenced in the third book. A certain lover had been separated from his mistress for the space of seven years, during which […]
HEARKEN to the reed-flute …
Masnavi e Ma’navi Translated & Abridged by E. H. WhinfieldBook I.PROLOGUE.HEARKEN to the reed-flute, how it complains,Lamenting its banishment from its home:“Ever since they tore me from my osier bed,My plaintive notes have moved men and women to tears.I burst my breast, striving to give vent to sighs,And to express the pangs of my […]
The Oilman and his Parrot.
Masnavi e Ma’navi Translated & Abridged by E. H. Whinfield Book.1STORY II.An oilman possessed a parrot which used to amuse him with its agreeable prattle, and to watch his shop when he went out. One day, when the parrot was alone in the shop, a cat upset one of the oil-jars.
Mo’avia and Iblis.
Masnavi e Manavi Book.2 STORY XI Mo’avia and Iblis. Mo’avia, the first of the Ommiad Khalifas, was one day lying asleep in his palace, when he was awakened by a strange man. Mo’avia asked him who he was, and he replied that he was Iblis.
THE SPIRITUAL COUPLETS OF MAULANA JALALU-‘D-DlN MUHAMMAD RUMI
Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi Rumi was born in Balkh (Afghanistan) in September 29, 1207 A.D. or 6th Rai’u-‘l-avval 604 A.H. to a family of master Afghan theologians in Balkh in the north-eastern provinces of present day Afghanistan.{jcomments on}