Revival: Rumi, Poet and Mystic, 1207-1273 (1950)

Selections from his Writings, Translated from the Persian with Introduction and Notes

Maulana Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781351253420
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

To the English reader the mysticism of Rumi opens a new world of spiritual and poetical experience. "God is One but religions are many" runs the Sufi teaching; and the English reader can here enlarge his experience by apprehending the mystic intuition of a great Persian poet. The late author's beautiful and faithful translations are illuminated by Notes on Sufi doctrine and experience. The author did not finish the Introduction, but it has been completed by his old pupil and friend, Professor A. J. Arberry, who has seen the book through the press.

CONTENTS

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

APPENDIX

Prelude

The Song of the Reed

Remembered Music

Love in Absence

“The Marriage of True Minds”

“A Sleep and a Forgetting”

The Grief of the Dead

The Unregenerate

The Burden of Existence

The Spirit of the Saints

The Children of Light

Love, the Hierophant

The Love of Woman

Divine Beauty

“I Turn Toward Thee”

The Truth within Us

Mystics Know

Asleep to the World

The Faithful are One Soul

The Ladder to Heaven

The True Sūfī

Nothing Venture Nothing Win

The Man who Looked Back on his way to Hell

Spiritual Churning

The Blind Follower

The Birds of Solomon

The Carnal Soul

The Beauty of Death

A Prayer for Good Behaviour

Communion with the Saints

The Man who fled from Azrael

“Omnes Eodem Cogimur”

Faith and Works

“No Monkery in Islam”

Do not Travel Alone

Fine Feathers

The Treasure-Seeker

The Mystic Way

The Sceptic

The Evil in Ourselves

The Hierarchy of Saints

The Spiritual Guide

The Uses of Tribulation

“The Spirit Helpeth our Infirmity”

Unseen Miracles

The Reward of the Righteous

The Saint’s Vision of Eternity

Beware of Hurting the Saint

The Disinterested Cadi

Good Words

“Here am I”

The Soul of Prayer

The Friend who said “I”

God Beyond Praise

Knowledge is Power

Our Real Names

Immediate Knowledge

Tradition and Intuition

Feeling and Thinking

Mystical Perception

Love and Fear

The Ascending Soul

The Negative Way

The Spirit o...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• GENERAL INTRODUCTION
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• APPENDIX
• Prelude
• The Song of the Reed
• Remembered Music
• Love in Absence
• “The Marriage of True Minds”
• “A Sleep and a Forgetting”
• The Grief of the Dead
• The Unregenerate
• The Burden of Existence
• The Spirit of the Saints
• The Children of Light
• Love, the Hierophant
• The Love of Woman
• Divine Beauty
• “I Turn Toward Thee”
• The Truth within Us
• Mystics Know
• Asleep to the World
• The Faithful are One Soul
• The Ladder to Heaven
• The True Sūfī
• Nothing Venture Nothing Win
• The Man who Looked Back on his way to Hell
• Spiritual Churning
• The Blind Follower
• The Birds of Solomon
• The Carnal Soul
• The Beauty of Death
• A Prayer for Good Behaviour
• Communion with the Saints
• The Man who fled from Azrael
• “Omnes Eodem Cogimur”
• Faith and Works
• “No Monkery in Islam”
• Do not Travel Alone
• Fine Feathers
• The Treasure-Seeker
• The Mystic Way
• The Sceptic
• The Evil in Ourselves
• The Hierarchy of Saints
• The Spiritual Guide
• The Uses of Tribulation
• “The Spirit Helpeth our Infirmity”
• Unseen Miracles
• The Reward of the Righteous
• The Saint’s Vision of Eternity
• Beware of Hurting the Saint
• The Disinterested Cadi
• Good Words
• “Here am I”
• The Soul of Prayer
• The Friend who said “I”
• God Beyond Praise
• Knowledge is Power
• Our Real Names
• Immediate Knowledge
• Tradition and Intuition
• Feeling and Thinking
• Mystical Perception
• Love and Fear
• The Ascending Soul
• The Negative Way
• The Spirit of the Universe
• The Absolute
• Fons Vitae
• The Purpose of Creation
• Divine Providence
• Causation
• The Divine Factory
• The World of Time
• Reality and Appearance
• God in Nature
• Amor Agitat Molem
• Universal Love
• Man the Macrocosm
• The Perfect Man
• The Witness to God
• The Mediator
• Asceticism and Gnosis
• “Die before Death”
• Mystical Death and Burial
• Unity of Spirit
• Creations of Phantasy
• The Magic of Love
• Phenomena the Bridge to Reality
• The Pear-Tree of Illusion
• Cosmic Consciousness
• The Universal Spirit revealed in Prophets and Saints
• The Standard-Bearers of Divine Revelation
• The Mystery of Evil
• The Law and the Truth
• The Complete Artist
• The Necessary Foil
• The Relativity of Evil
• The Soul of Goodness in Things Evil
• The Unseen Power
• Moral Responsibility
• “Whatsoever God Wills shall come to Pass”
• Predestination and Free-Will
• The Wine of Love
• The Riddles of God
• The Apology of Iblīs
• Love and Logic
• The One True Light
• The Twelve Gospels
• The Shepherd’s Prayer
• A Rebuke to Bigots
• Religious Controversy
• The Doctrine of Reserve
• Unknowing
• The Unitive State
• The Life Everlasting
• Does Personality Survive?
• The Soul of the World
• Deification
• The God-Man
• The Spiritual Ascension
• The Progress of Man
• “Ripeness is All”