since the death of Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi.
Soul receives from soul the knowledge, not by book
and not from tongue, and not through art
If the knowledge comes out of silence of the mind, this is
the illumination of the heart.
since the death of Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi.
Soul receives from soul the knowledge, not by book
and not from tongue, and not through art
If the knowledge comes out of silence of the mind, this is
the illumination of the heart.
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Jalal-ud-Din Rumi was known in Persia and Afghanistan as Jalal-ud-Din Balkhi - because he was born (1207) in Balkh, where Omar Khayyám was educated nearly 200 years earlier.
When he was about 10 years old his scholar father fled with his family the advancing Mongols via Baghdad, Mecca and Damascus, to Konya in Anatolia (known as 'Rum' because it had recently been part of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.).
Rumi's mystical poetry was of course written to be read aloud,
and in various attractive metres which cannot be rendered into English.
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