Overview. That unwillingness to talk about Rumi's marital life is part of the reason many people tend to sexualise his relationship with Shams. 354 quotes have been tagged as rumi: Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi: ‘What you seek is seeking you.’, Rumi: ‘Words are a pretext. Sufi poetry has been largely misunderstood by modern pop culture. Also, Rumi was married to a woman named Gawhar Khatun, yet when anyone talks about his life, she gets no mention. (9) While obtaining this education, Rumi was "initiated into the Sufi path." As here the cleverness and smartness will not work and moreover it will harm only. This tension, about how religions reconcile historical reality with liberal sentimentality, exists in today's Judaic and Christian art, but is most pronounced in Islam. If Rumi had lived as a mainstream Muslim, then the differences mentioned above would have been very stark. Sufi Comics- Rumi is the first of its kind to illustrate stories and poems of Rumi in graphic form. An upcoming biopic announcement has stirred a whitewashing storm as Oscar-winning screenwriter David Franzoni said he would like to cast Leonardo DiCaprio as … After an intense relationship between the two men, Shams disappeared, and in his grief Rumi became devoted to the Divine Beloved, producing exquisite works of moral wisdom until the end of his life a few decades later. For the film, Ali has teamed up with Oscar-winning screenwriter and director David Ward (Sleepless in Seattle) as well as the cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now) while new age guru Deepak Chopra has been brought in as script consultant. Authors: Delaney James. The universe is not outside of you, look inside yourself, everything that you want, you already are. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yoursel that you have built against it. The famous "whirling dervishes" trace themselves back to the poet and he has even inspired Iranian ballet as well as a recent symphony project. Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi, Writer: The Interpreted Dream. You were born with the wings, why prefer to crawl through life? By Nesreen Akhtarkhavari and Anthony A. Lee, Translators | (Informed Comment) | - - The poems of Rumi, the thirteenth-century teacher, scholar, and poet known simply as Mowlana in the Muslim world, have shaped Islamic culture for centuries. Third is the issue of Rumi's duality. First, how will certain Muslim countries, and particularly the more puritanical religious elements, react to the movie? That is a shame, because there is plenty in his actual historical life that would be of interest to the world today. That one of the most revered individuals in Islam may have been influenced by someone from Islam's (ultra) minority sect is precisely the kind of stuff that the film should tease out, even if it does so with a nudge and a wink. Qatar to fund Muzaffar Ali`s Rumi biopic. Rumi is seen as a great spiritual master and poet. His poems are an explosion of different emotions. In 2002, Time magazine pointed out that "easily the most successful poetry book published in the west in the past decade" belonged to Rumi (his verses have even been recited by Madonna). He was astonished to see that the Sufi's home was a simple room. Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية ‎) (714/717/718 — 801 CE) was a Muslim saint and Sufi mystic. One is safe and secure on being wiser only in the KINGDOM OF GOD. Rumi is seen as a great spiritual master and poet. Sufi poetry is delivered in song, music, written and spoken form in cultures across the world. Your heart knows the way, run in that direction, Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life, The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear, There is a force within that gives you life, seek that, The lamps are different, but the light is the same, Why you are so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you, The very center of your heart is where life begins, it is the most beautiful place on the earth, When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be, Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you, You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop, Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart, Every success depends upon focusing the heart, Lovers do not finally meet somewhere, they are already in each other all along, Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give, Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure, © 2021 Times Internet Limited. The Sufi saint Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) is considered "the supreme genius of Islamic mysticism," and has been called ',the greatest mystical poet of any age." I fear that a film being made in Qatar about the Islamic mystic may gloss over some of the more interesting aspects of his life, The Hermeneutics of Eroticism in the Poetry of Rumi. All rights reserved, Shiv-Shambhu is self-menifest supreme soul: Haiku, Celebrate Shivratri with Two-line Mahakal Stotra Chanting. Men like Ibn Taymiya, who later inspired modern jihadists, were agitating for revolt and using Islamic scholarship in the service of vengeance. There is a voice that does not use words, listen, Let the beauty of what you love be what you do, The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.