Dr.Ehsan AzariToward the end of Candid, Voltaire writes in 1758 about a dervish saint who lived in Turkey without citing his name. In the novel, Candid approaches and asks the dervish: “Master…we have come to ask a favour. Will you kindly tell us why such a strange animal as man was ever […]
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Jesus Christ in Rumi’s Poetry and Parables
Jesus Christ in Rumi’s Poetry and ParablesBy Dr. Rasoul Sorkhabihttp://www.interreligiousinsight.org/April2008/April08Sorkhabi.pdfDr. Rasoul Sorkhabi, is a professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and directs the Rumi Poetry Club ([email protected]).
Moulana Rumi sayings and quotes
About Religion and God Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Elephant in a Dark Room.
Book III. Story VI.Some Hindoos were exhibiting an elephant in a dark room, and many people collected to see it. But as the place was too dark to permit them to see the elephant, they all felt it with their hands, to gain an idea of what it was like.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Pauper and the Prisoners.
Book II. STORY II.The Pauper and the Prisoners.A certain pauper obtained admittance to a prison, and annoyed the prisoners by eating up all their victuals and leaving them none.
Masnavi e Manavi :Bayazid and the Saint
Book 2. Story X.Bayazid and the Saint The celebrated Sufi, Abu Yazid or Bayazid of Bastam, in Khorasan, who lived in the third century of the Flight, was once making a pilgrimage to Mecca, and visiting all the “Pillars of insight” who lived m the various towns that lay on his route. At […]
Masnavi e Manavi :The Deadly Mosque.
The Deadly MosqueBook III. Story XVIII.In the suburbs of a certain city there was a mosque in which none could sleep a night and live. Some said it was haunted by malevolent fairies; others, that it was under the baneful influence of a magic spell;
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 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 […]