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Rumi

Rumi

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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.
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  • Darija Živkovićshared an impression6 years ago
    🙈Lost On Me

    Didn't like this translation at all.
    I love Rumi, but I dislike this book.

  • CLspshared an impression7 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot

Quotes

  • Aliya Zhumagaliyevahas quoted7 years ago
    You are the joy that dances in my breast
    My secret love that’s hidden from the rest
    The miser’s coin will sometimes leave the purse,
    So you escape and give birth to my verse.
  • Konul Shirinhas quoted6 years ago
    woman is of God’s radiance a ray
    Not just a thing with which man has his way
    When God created Eve, she was to be
    The source of all creative interplay.
  • Konul Shirinhas quoted6 years ago
    Man was not made of water
    nor of fire,
    wind or clay.
    The spirit of desire
    Has made us what we are
    and we transcend.
    So don’t dabble
    In this babble
    Of elements, my friend.

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