Selection of the lyrical poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi.
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hood and by that means perfect union with the divine Beloved, is the living rock on which all mysticism is based.
the ḥadīs:
Shame
hinders faith, and Redhouse's Masnavī, p. 115: Ḥusāin-u'ddīn having publicly spoken in praise of certain individuals who bore an extremely bad character complaint was made to Jalāl, who confirmed what Ḥusām had said, and remarked: " God looks only to man's heart. Those seemingly lewd fellows are really God-loving saints." Cf. also:
Since you are moved by feelings of shame and honour, you must become manifest, like Majnūn ;
One concealed as He is will never be found by concealment (continence).
the Sūfī path
whereby the pilgrim arrives at true knowledge of God.
■Greek νόμος (see Dozy's Supplément aux
Dictionnaires Arabes, under
I have not been able to discover any tradition
to this effect. Possibly the word is used here, as often, in a non-technical sense.
-sincerely, without prejudice.
literally, possessed by the
Mainūn is the Orlando Furioso of eastern romance; in Persia the love of Majnūn and Lailā has long been a brilliant theme for poetry: mention may be made here of the masnavïs by Nizāmï, Jāmï, and Hātifï. Majnūn represents the soul seeking union with God, who is the Beloved par excellence.
Orientals regard lunacy as a special mark of divine favour.
Observe the assonance
This tigure, m which two or more words of like sound and derived (or at least apparently derived) from the same root are brought together, is called
according to others
—suffered the agony of separation
from his Beloved. Cf. Hāfiz (I. 256. 2):
—self-annihilation ' which is attained by absorption in the glory of the Creator and by contemplation of the Truth ' (Kitābu 'tta'rīfāt),4 to die spiritually, so far as the senses are concerned, during life ' (Juan de la Cruz). See Whinfield's Masnavī, p. xxvi seq., with the...
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Cover
Half Title
Full Title
Copyright
Dedication
PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
LIST OF AUTHORS AND EDITIONS REFERRED TO IN THE NOTES
