Rumi: Poems
by Rumi, Jalal Al-Din; Washington, PeterFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-06-06
Publisher(s): Everyman's Library
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Summary
The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufisma mystic tradition within IslamRumi founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Many of Rumi's poems speak of a yearning for ecstatic union with the divine Beloved. But his images bring the sacred and the earthy together in startling ways, describing divine love in vividly human terms. This volume draws on a wide variety of translationsfrom the early twentieth century to the presentof Rumi's deeply moving, sensually vibrant poetry.
Author Biography
Jalal al-Din, known as Rumi (i.e., from Rum) or Mawlana (Master), was born in 1207 at Balkh in northern Afganistan. He worked as a preacher, succeeding his father, and founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. He died in 1273 and his burial place in Konya remains a shrine to this day.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 11 |
| The guest house | p. 17 |
| And he is with us | p. 18 |
| Come, beggars | p. 19 |
| My worst habit | p. 20 |
| The marriage of true minds | p. 21 |
| You and I | p. 22 |
| The friend who said 'I' | p. 23 |
| The phrasing must change | p. 25 |
| Saladin's begging bowl | p. 27 |
| One by one | p. 29 |
| A community of the spirit | p. 32 |
| Look at love | p. 34 |
| How long will you hide | p. 36 |
| Quatrains | p. 38 |
| Of being woven | p. 41 |
| Clothes abandoned on the shore | p. 43 |
| The diver's clothes lying empty | p. 45 |
| The root of the root of your Self | p. 46 |
| Does personality survive? | p. 48 |
| All my friends | p. 51 |
| The fragrant air | p. 52 |
| Don't be bitter my friend | p. 53 |
| The waterwheel | p. 54 |
| Search the darkness | p. 55 |
| In every breath | p. 56 |
| A mouse and a frog | p. 58 |
| Quatrains | p. 60 |
| The weeping flute | p. 63 |
| What a man can say | p. 64 |
| The world which is made of our love for emptiness | p. 65 |
| I am the slave who set the master free | p. 66 |
| Restless | p. 67 |
| Quietness | p. 69 |
| The perfect man | p. 70 |
| The true Sufi | p. 72 |
| The birds of Solomon | p. 73 |
| Love and fear | p. 74 |
| If you don't have | p. 76 |
| The pull of love | p. 78 |
| Elegy for Sana'i | p. 80 |
| Quatrains | p. 81 |
| Story water | p. 85 |
| The soul of prayer | p. 87 |
| The bird on the city-wall | p. 88 |
| 'Here am I' | p. 89 |
| Solomon's crooked crown | p. 90 |
| The evil in ourselves | p. 91 |
| The blind follower | p. 93 |
| The Sufi in the orchard | p. 94 |
| The truth within us | p. 95 |
| The treasure-seeker | p. 96 |
| Gnats inside the wind | p. 98 |
| The far mosque | p. 99 |
| The monk who searched for a man | p. 100 |
| The thief in the orchard | p. 101 |
| Fine feathers | p. 102 |
| The foal that would not drink | p. 103 |
| An empty garlic | p. 104 |
| The camel, the ox and the ram | p. 105 |
| The man who stole a snake, on the answer to prayer | p. 106 |
| Galen and the madman | p. 107 |
| Omar and the man who thought he saw the new moon | p. 108 |
| Red shirt | p. 109 |
| The grammarian and the boatman | p. 110 |
| The three brothers and the Chinese princess | p. 111 |
| Quatrains | p. 119 |
| If you stay awake | p. 122 |
| Asleep to the world | p. 124 |
| Reality and appearance | p. 126 |
| God in nature | p. 127 |
| Amor agitat molem | p. 129 |
| Immediate knowledge | p. 130 |
| Mystics know | p. 132 |
| The relativity of evil | p. 134 |
| The soul of goodness in things evil | p. 136 |
| Good words | p. 137 |
| The complete artist | p. 138 |
| An awkward comparison | p. 139 |
| Spiritual churning | p. 140 |
| The necessary foil | p. 141 |
| Tradition and intuition | p. 142 |
| Someone digging in the ground | p. 143 |
| The elephant in the dark, on the reconciliation of contrarieties | p. 144 |
| The ladder to heaven | p. 145 |
| Love is reckless | p. 147 |
| Feeling and thinking | p. 148 |
| Tending two shops | p. 149 |
| The parable of the anxious cow | p. 151 |
| The greedy wife and the cat | p. 152 |
| The dog in the doorway | p. 153 |
| The carnal soul | p. 155 |
| Acts of helplessness | p. 156 |
| Mystical perception | p. 158 |
| The world of time | p. 160 |
| Quatrains | p. 161 |
| The mouse and the camel | p. 164 |
| My secret beloved | p. 166 |
| This is love | p. 168 |
| Only you | p. 169 |
| You are my life | p. 171 |
| Talking through the door | p. 172 |
| As your sword | p. 175 |
| Sweep the dust off the sea | p. 176 |
| You ask me | p. 178 |
| The wine of love | p. 180 |
| You are drunk | p. 181 |
| A great wagon | p. 183 |
| You are | p. 184 |
| Did I not say to you | p. 186 |
| Quatrains | p. 188 |
| The divine factory | p. 192 |
| Chickpea to cook | p. 193 |
| The uses of tribulation | p. 195 |
| You have seized me by the ear | p. 198 |
| Enough words? | p. 199 |
| Die now | p. 201 |
| Remembered music | p. 202 |
| Do you break our harp, exalted one | p. 204 |
| The flute weeps | p. 205 |
| Everywhere | p. 207 |
| I am | p. 209 |
| Whatever happens | p. 212 |
| If a tree could move on foot or wing | p. 214 |
| Where everything is music | p. 216 |
| The unseen power | p. 218 |
| Song of the reed | p. 219 |
| If you can only reflect | p. 222 |
| The ascending soul | p. 223 |
| The progress of Man | p. 224 |
| Where did it all go | p. 226 |
| The negative way | p. 227 |
| Dissolver of sugar | p. 229 |
| The heart is like a grain of corn | p. 230 |
| Quatrains | p. 231 |
| Deification | p. 234 |
| We came whirling | p. 236 |
| Two discourses | p. 239 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 251 |
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