MAWLANA JALALIDINI RUMI

By Nasima Abdulloeva

CONTENT:

Introduction Mawlana Jalalidini

Rumi Life story- meeting

Shamsi Tabrezi Rumi’s Poems Philosophy and

Teachings Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

Sufism and the encounters that Sufism facilitates --encounters with God, love, and the deepest aspects of human consciousness-- have evoked feelings in Sufis that have poured out through their ravaged hearts onto their lucid tongues, providing us with some of the most beautiful and profound poetry ever written.

BIOGRAPHY

Rumi Mawlana Jalal al-Din Muhammad of Balkh (henceforth Rumi)

poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic September 30, 1207 Balkh, Afghanistan father Baha' al-DinWalad 17 December 1273 (Konya,Turkey)

predicted his death

WORKS

Maṭnawīye Ma'nawī (Spiritual Couplets)

Dīwān-e Shams-e Tabrīzī (The Works of Shams of Tabriz)

Fihi Ma Fihi (In It What's in It,

Majāles-e Sab'a (Seven Sessions

Makatib (The Letters

In 2007, he was described as the "most popular poet in America

His doctrine advocates unlimited tolerance, positive reasoning, goodness, charity and awareness through love.

Rumi believed passionately in the use of music, poetry and dance as a path for reaching God

MEETING WITH SHAMS OF TABRIZ

It was his meeting with the dervish Shams-e Tabrizi on 15 November 1244 that completely changed his life. From an accomplished teacher and jurist, Rumi was transformed into an ascetic

the night of 5 December 1248 Rumi's love for, and his bereavement at the

death of, Shams found their expression in an outpouring lyric poems, Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi. He himself went out searching for Shams and journeyed again to Damascus.

POEMS

Let's delve into the beauty of the Islamic knowledge and discover the hidden wisdom behind Rumi's words, through some of his well known poems.

Hidden (deep) meaning

The minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowing

how blind that was.Lovers don't meet each other,

they're in each other all along.

 

PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE

According to Sufism, the search for love refers to the ability to love rather than the necessity of being loved.“loving does not depend on being loved”Life Love

Rumi believes that it is not logical to develop love for temporal and ordinary things and to get enchanted by their beauty. Rumi says that one should love the source and origin of this beauty

He says that eternal beauty belongs to God

this universe is only a passing reflection of eternal beauty of God. 

LOVE OF GOD

 the source of all souls is God separation raised restlessness in souls to return

to their origin, the God. Every soul feels a continual attraction towards

its source But this attraction is screened by material

constraints like our body, universe and matter. In the depths, every atom is conscious of its

origin and every creature is ever dissatisfied and wants to live a higher life.

I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as plant and rose to animal,

I died as animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by

dying?Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar

                             with angels blessed; but even from angelhood

I must pass on: all except God doth perish.

When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,                            I shall become what

no mind ever conceived.

BIRTH, DEATH AND RESURRECTION the idea that one

continues to be born in the physical world being subjected to cycles of death and rebirth until the soul can finally be released from the "prison", symbolized by the word "chains", becoming immortal.

Rumi makes it clear that only those who seek love rather than the worldly pleasures can pass the test of immortality and enter the heavenly realms. Those who fail, will return to the physical world, again and again

WHIRLING DERVISHES Following his death, his followers and his son 

Sultan Walad founded the Mevlevi Order, also known as the Order of the Whirling Dervishes, famous for its Sufi dance known as the Sama ceremony

samāʿ represents a mystical journey of spiritual ascent through mind and love to the Perfect One

The seeker then returns from this spiritual journey, with greater maturity, to love and to be of service to the whole of creation without discrimination with regard to beliefs, races, classes and nations.

KONYA,TURKEY

This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love. (Rumi)

REFERENCES

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Poets/Rumi.pdf

http://www.rumi.net/about_rumi_main.htm

http://islam.uga.edu/sufipoetry.html http://peacefulrivers.homestead.com/h

afiz.html http://suite101.com/article/rumis-poem

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