Rumi

A New Translation of Selected Poems

Rumi, Farrukh Dhondy

• Verlag: Arcade
• Jahr: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781611459203
• Thema: Littérature
• Thema: Poésie du Moyen-Orient

Championed by the likes of Madonna, Donna Karan, and Deepak Chopra, Rumi has won such a following in this country that a few years ago he was proclaimed our bestselling poet. But translations that have popularized the work of this thirteenth-century Sufi mystic have also strayed from its essence. In this new translation, Farrukh Dhondy seeks to recover both the lyrical beauty and the spiritual essence of the original verse. In poems of love and devotion, rapture and suffering, loss and yearning for oneness, Dhondy has rediscovered the Islamic mystic of spiritual awakening whose quest is the key to his universal appeal. Here is at once a great poet of love, both human and divine, and the authentic voice of a moderate Islam—a voice that can resonate in today's turbulent, fundamentalist times.

Contents

Rumi, Sufism and the Modern World

THE WORD

GOING TO MECCA

THE WALL

VULTURES

RENEWAL FROM THE FALL

THE DANCE

LOVERS

BY HIS WILL

QUATRAINS

GROWING UP

THE BRIGHTER

TWO WINES

CAUSE AND EFFECT

FORM

REACH OUT

DESTROY TO BUILD

PHARAOH THE RICH

THE FURNACE

LOVE IS SURRENDER

LOGIC AND DESIRE

THE BLASPHEMERS

TODAY

PRAYER AND PRIDE

THE KNOWLEDGE

FLEAS

THE DUMB CAN SPEAK

MIRRORS

KINSHIP

TONGUE

SOLOMON AND SHEBA

USE WHAT HE HAS GRANTED YOU

DOUBT

LIKE THIS

SCIENCE

LOVE IS ALL

VOICES

POURING RAIN

SAMARITANS

NASUH

DON’T ASK

THE WILL TO DROWN

LOSE ALL DESIRE

HOME

BE UNSUBTLE

BROTHERS

SKEPTIC

EQUALS

THE WORD IS ALL

ON THE JOURNEY

BE PATIENT

OPPOSITES

WEAR THE CROWN LIGHTLY

DEATH IS THE THIEF

HE KNOWS

DEATH BE NOT PROUD

IN THE BEYOND

MATERIAL THE EARTH

ASS

QUARANTINE

EARTHLY KNOWLEDGE

FINAL ECSTASY

THE MOTE

LOVE, THE MOTHER AND CHILD

FLY

SECRET LOVE

UNSCHOOLED PROPHET

THIEVING EYES

DO NOT GO...