The Mystery of Love – Rumi (Powerful Life Poetry)

Jalaluddin Rumi was a 13th century Persian scholar, poet, and Sufi mystic who is regarded as one of the greatest spiritual teachers of his time.

His best writings are found in the Masnavi, a poetic compendium of supreme wisdom and spiritual depth. The Masnavi was held as one of the finest works of literature ever seen and is today emblematic of the Islamic Golden Age.

We hope you enjoy our translation and rendition of this Persian verse as derived from abstracts of the Masnavi.
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We worked with the following artists to produce this reading:

Voiceover by Shane Morris
Score by Future of Forestry
Source: The Masnavi of Jelaluddin Rumi (Persian), translated by RedFrost Motivation

#rumi #poem #sufism

[RedFrostMotivation]

Wherever you are, whatever you do, be in love. – Rumi

Share your favourite Rumi verses below. 🙏

[johnbyrne]

"You who suffer because
you love, love still more.
To die of love, is to
live by it."
- Victor Hugo.

[liferuhani]

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety. If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me.
There is a great secret in this for anyone who can grasp it.

[WeAreAllOneNature]

1:32 ''Be a rider of true love, and fear not the way.''
Surely there is no better advice.

[israelajala]

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained
is clearer.

[johnbyrne]

"Love will find a way
through paths where
wolves fear to prey."
- Lord Byron.

[johnbyrne]

"Life without love is like
a tree without
blossoms or fruit."
- Kahlil Gibran.

[PinkwithaP]

So true and perfectly described. Love brings us home. And home is within me, and you. 💫🙏💛🌟

[WordsofWisdomquotes]

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

[saimaomar]

"The proof of the Sun is in the Sun iteself".❤

[johnbyrne]

"Love betters
what is best."
- William Wordsworth.

[jaenyc]

700 years and still going. Universal and eternal poems

[sadiquera]

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

[sarazolali]

Rumi was the true mystic and he will always be the master 🌹❤

[thevoiceofrumi]

One quote. One video. One moment of peace. That’s what I share.❤

[Hamadali-wcvm]

Love is the bridge between you and everything.
RUMI.

[shoonyah]

Rumi Rumi Rumi... I love you sooo much 🤗. You just capture my soul like no other ❤

[motivatedenough]

When we fall in love, our words fall shorts... Awesome.

[ryansmith]

One of the greatest Persian poets !!!
Among the likes of Omar khayam, Ferdowsi, Saadi, Hafiz & so on & so forth....

[willieluncheonette]

"The poem by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi is beautiful, as always. He has spoken only beautiful words. He is one of the most significant poets who are also mystics. That is a rare combination; there are millions of poets in the world and there are a few mystics in the world, but a man who is both is very rare to find.
Rumi is a very rare flower. He is as great a poet as he is a mystic. Hence, his poetry is not just poetry, not just a beautiful arrangement of words. It contains immense meaning and points towards the ultimate truth. It is not entertainment, it is enlightenment.


Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, a Sufi mystic, simply made whirling his only method. His followers are called whirling dervishes. They whirl for hours — it is not easy. Jalaluddin Rumi himself whirled for thirty-six hours continuously, and in the whirling he became enlightened because in the whirling he got lost; only whirling remained. There was no one inside. There was utter emptiness and silence.

The words of Mevlana Rumi are immensely significant. There have been very few people who have moved and transformed as many hearts as Jalaluddin Rumi.

In the world of the Sufis, Mevlana Rumi is the emperor. His words have to be understood not as mere words, but sources of deep silences, echoes of inner and the innermost songs. He is the greatest dancer the world has known. Twelve hundred years have passed since he was alive.
His dance is a special kind of dance. It is a kind of whirling, just the way small children whirl; standing on one spot they go on round and round. And perhaps everywhere in the world small children do that and their elders stop them saying, “You will become dizzy, you will fall, you will hurt yourself, ” and, “What is the point of doing it?”

Jalaluddin Rumi made a meditation of whirling. The meditator goes on whirling for hours — as long as the body allows him; he does not stop on his own. When whirling a moment comes that he sees himself utterly still and silent, a center of the cyclone. Around the center the body is moving, but there is a space which remains unmoved; that is his being.

Rumi himself whirled for thirty-six hours continuously and fell, because the body could not whirl anymore. But when he opened his eyes he was another man. Hundreds of people had gathered to see. Many thought he was mad: “What is the point of whirling?”

… Nobody can say this is a prayer; nobody can say this is great dance; nobody can say in any way that this has something to do with religion, spirituality….

But after thirty-six hours when they saw Rumi so luminous, so radiant, so new, so fresh — reborn, in a new consciousness, they could not believe their eyes. Hundreds wept in repentance, because they had thought that he was mad. In fact he was sane and they were mad.

And down these twelve centuries the stream has continued to be alive. There are very few movements of spiritual growth which have lived so long continuously. There are still hundreds of dervishes. `Dervish’ is the Sufi word for sannyas. You cannot believe it unless you experience, that just by whirling you can know yourself. No austerity is needed, no self-torture is needed, but just an experience of your innermost being and you are transported into another plane of existence from the mortal to the immortal. The darkness disappears and there is just eternal light."