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All Jalāl ad-Din ar-Rumi Pages (350)

Total Reversal

Lesson 26: Total Reversal Total reversal: this world becomes ghostly This sun a ghost sun to your Sun... Pale with terror and awe, I stagger Between dimensions, fleeing my shadow. - Jalal-ud… View »

Wash Me Away

Lesson 25: Wash Me Away Whip up the waves of non-being and wash me away! How long will I walk up and down the shore in fear? - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of R… View »

Sciences

Lesson 24: Sciences What is the essential spirit of all sciences? To know who you will be on the Day of Resurrection! - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi) View »

Contemplating the Light of God

Lesson 23: Contemplating the Light of God There's an intellect like the sun's blazing disc— And one inferior to Venus or a shooting star. There's an intellect like a flickering lamp, And one li… View »

Two Kinds of Intellect

Lesson 22: Two Kinds of Intellect There are two kinds of intellect; the first is acquired – Thanks to it, you learn like a schoolboy Books, teachers, reflection, concepts, all kinds of sciences… View »

From Horizon to Horizon

Lesson 21: From Horizon to Horizon From one horizon to another, this world breeds only grief. Frivolous fool! Don't go looking for suffering – Even if you could make the sun and moon a crown f… View »

Certainty

Lesson 20: Certainty Root my being in certainty So I witness you without fear. Even as the waves of blood crash over me And the worlds char in fire. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew… View »

Homeland

Lesson 19: Homeland Last night a friend asked me, "Where is your homeland?" I said nothing, for what could I say? My homeland is not Egypt or Syria or Iraq. My homeland's a place that has never… View »

Becoming the Lover

Lesson 18: Becoming the Lover How can you ever hope to know the Beloved Without becoming in every cell the Lover? And when you are the Lover at last, you don't care. Whatever you know, or don't… View »

My Heart

Lesson 17: My Heart My heart, that dervish vagabond, Poured me the wine of oblivion. I staggered toward the House of Wine Dancing, dancing, dragging this old cloak. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Tran… View »