Each poem can be the starting point for a journey of inquiry into the mysteries of the self and the universe. &0183 &32 A Year Of Love offers new English translations of 52 short Rumi poems, to be used for weekly reflection and meditation. The unique trait of this order was that, contrary to general Moslem practice, Rumi gave a considerable place to music (the drum and reed) in the ceremonies.2018.

But it is filled with lyrical inspiration. The Mathnawi is noDoubt very disjointed the stories follow one another in no apparent order. His tales possessed diverse qualities: variety and originality, dignity and picturesqueness, learning and charm, depth of feeling and thought. His style was simple and colloquial. He also wrote a shorter Diwan and a prose treatise entitled Fihi Ma Fihi (What Is Within Is Within).Rumi was a poet of the first rank. This work is a compendium of poems, tales, anecdotes, and reflectionsвЂ”all meant to illustrate Sufi doctrine, the result of 40 years of work by Rumi.

He was philanthropic and strongly emotional, and his writings seem easily to fit in with the excitement of the dance of the whirling dervishes. But in the last analysis, Rumi was a Moslem of very special interest. Ties to Christian mysticism can also be found. But it can be said that just as Ibn Arabi summed up and gathered into a single system all that had been said on mysticism in Arabic before him, so Rumi in his famous Mathnawi comes the closest to this in Persian.As with other Sufi poets, many Neoplatonic ideas abound in Rumi's writing. But it is not systematically expounded, and lyrical fervor seems to run rampant. His subject is Sufism, expressed with glowing enthusiasm.

Short Poems By Rumi