Abstract The present paper aims to provide textual evidence in support of Rumi’s spiritual shiism.
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Masnavi e Manavi : The Hindu Slave who loved his Master’s Daughter.
Book VI. STORY I. The Hindu Slave who loved his Master’s Daughter. A certain man had a Hindu slave, whom he had brought up along with his children, one of whom was a daughter.
Masnavi e Manavi : ‘Ali’s Forbearance
Book I STORY XVI. ‘Ali’s Forbearance. ‘Ali, the “Lion of God,” was once engaged in conflict with a Magian chief, and in the midst of the struggle the Magian spat in his face. ‘Ali, instead of taking vengeance on him, at once dropped his sword, to the Magian’s great astonishment.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Youth who wrote a letter of complaint about his rations to the King.
Book IV. STORY III. The Youth who wrote a letter of complaint about his rations to the King. A certain youth in the service of a great king was dissatisfied with his rations, so he went to the cook and reproached him with dishonoring his master by his stinginess. The youth would not […]
Masnavi e Manavi : The Arab and his Wife.
Book 1 STORY IX. An Arab lived with his wife in the desert in extreme poverty, so that they became a reproach to their neighbours. The wife at last lost patience, and began to abuse her husband, and to urge him to improve their condition.
Rumi’s Love of the Prophet (saws)
Rumi has a special place in his heart for the Prophet of Islam because he proposed a high level of ethics for humanity, such as freeing slaves and taking care of the poor.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Lion and the Beasts.
Book I.STORY V. In the book of Kalila and Damna a story is told of a lion who held all the beasts of the neighborhood in subjection, and was in the habit of making constant raids upon them, to take and kill such of them as he required for his daily food.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Falcon and the Owls
Book II.STORY IV.The Falcon and the OwlsA certain falcon lost his way, and found himself in the waste places inhabited by owls. The owls suspected that he had come to seize their nests, and all surrounded him to make an end of him.
Earth Architecture and Persian Mystic Poetry
RumiEarth Architecture and Persian Mystic PoetryJalaloddin Mohammed Balkhi Rumi was a solemn, pious man in the 13th century small town of Konya located in Turkey today. He was born in September 1207 in the city of Balkh, today’s Afghanistan, then a city in Khorasan province, part of the Persian empire (Iran today).
Masnavi e Manavi :The Prince who, after having been beguiled by a Courtesan, returned to his True Love.
Book 4STORY VIII. The Prince who, after having been beguiled bya Courtesan, returned to his True Love. A certain king dreamed that his dearly beloved son, a youth of great promise, had come to an untimely end. On awaking he was rejoiced to find that his son was still alive; but he reflected […]