Spring and all its flowers now joyously break their vow of silence.It is time for celebration, not for lying low;You too — weed out those roots of sadness from your heart.
Tag: poetry
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).
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 (rumipoetryclub@earthlink.net).
Shams Tabrizi
Shams-i-Tabrīzī or Shams al-Din Mohammad (died ca.1248) was a Persian Muslim, who is credited as the spiritual instructor of Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi and is referenced with great reverence in Rumi’s poetic collection, in particular “Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī” (The Works of Shams of Tabriz).
poems of Ibn Arabi
Allah“The Breath of the All-Merciful has no basis in other than the All-Merciful… Its stopping-place is the Yaman of the creatures and It is neither spirit nor body.