Mystical Poems of Rumi

My verse resembles the bread of Egypt—night passes over it, and also you can't devour it any more.
Devour it the instant it truly is clean, earlier than the airborne dirt and dust settles upon it.
Its position is the nice and cozy weather of the guts; during this global it dies of cold.
Like a fish it quivered for an rapid on dry land, one other second and also you see it truly is cold.
Even when you devour it imagining it really is clean, it is crucial to conjure up many images.
What you drink is de facto your individual mind's eye; it really is no outdated story, my stable man.

Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–73), mythical Persian Muslim poet, theologian, and mystic, wrote poems acclaimed in the course of the centuries for his or her robust non secular pictures and provocative content material, which frequently defined Rumi’s love for God in romantic or erotic phrases. His enormous physique of labor contains greater than 3 thousand lyrics and odes. This quantity includes four hundred poems chosen via popular Rumi pupil A. J. Arberry, who offers the following the most complete and adept English translations of this enigmatic genius. Mystical Poems is the definitive source for someone looking an advent to or an enriched figuring out of 1 of the world’s maximum poets.

 
“Rumi is among the world’s maximum lyrical poets in any language—as good as the most available and approachable consultant of Islamic civilization for Western students.”—James W. Morris, Oberlin College

 

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