Revival: Rumi, Poet and Mystic, 1207-1273 (1950): Selections from His Writings, Translated from the Persian with Introduction and Notes

ISBN-13: 9781138550704 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 190 str.

Maulana Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. The song of the reed  2. Remembered music  3. Love in absence  4. "The marriage of true minds"  5. "A sleep and a forgetting"  6. The grief of the dead  7. The unregenerate  8. The burden of existence  9. The spirit of the saints  10. The children of light  11. Love, the hierophant  12. The love of woman  13. Divine beauty  14. "I turn toward thee"  15. The truth within us  16. Mystics know  17. Asleep to the world  18. The faithful are one soul  19. The ladder to heaven  20. The true Sufi  21. Nothing venture nothing win  22. The man who looked back on his way to hell. 23  Spiritual churning  24. The blind follower  25. The birds of Solomon  26. The carnal soul  27. The beauty of death  28. A prayer for good behaviour  29. Communion with the saints  30. The man who fled from Azrael  31. "Omnes Eodem Cogimur"  32. Faith and works  33. "No monkery in Islam  34. Do not travel alone  35. Fine feathers  36. The treasure-seeker  37. The mystic way  38. The sceptic  39. The evil in ourselves  40. The hierarchy of saints  41. The spiritual guide  42. The uses of tribulation  43. "The spirit helpeth our infirmity"  44. Unseen miracles  45. The reward of the righteous  46. The saint’s vision of eternity  47. Beware of hurting the saint  48. The disinterested Cadi  49. Good words  50. "Here am I"  51. The soul of prayer  52. The friend who said "I"  53. God beyond praise  54. Knowledge is power  55. Our real names  56. Immediate knowledge  57. Tradition and intuition  58. Feeling and thinking  59. Mystical perception  60. Love and fear  61. The ascending soul  62. The negative way  63. The spirit of the universe  64. The absolute  65. Fons vitae  66. The purpose of creation  67. Divine providence  68. Causation  69. The divine factory  70. The world of time  71. Reality