RUMI POET OF THE HEART

[sam7748]

There is no "ism" in the word Sufi. Read Seyyid Hossein Nasr to get some understanding of what people call Sufism.

[axisares]

Some people say, "Over there you will find it." Other go, "Come here and I will show it to you." Then there are the ones which hold a sign above their heads which proclaim, 'Apostle Prophet Evangelist.' But from such a great distance we could only see the word 'APE'. When the Beloved divulges a secret within you there can be no more room for doubt or distinction. The Breath of his presence will melt all boundaries.

[samsarahmail]

Happy Birthday Rumi~

[nixfire]

i discovered sufism 3 yrs ago n it really touched my heart i love the poems n its teachings...really beautiful, peaceful stuff. i just wish i cud join a sufi interest group or something but i don't think there's any in NYC

[kristianjl]

The peace imposed by the Mongol invasion and the prosperity provided by the trade of the silk road turned the region into a tolerant, multi-cultural environment that made the work of poets like Rumi possible. What a great film. Dogma should be released in favor of universal truths and connections.

[BenReisman]

If you are truly interested in Rumi and Sufism I recommend you to search on google for:

Sufi for a Month.

Sufi for a Month is a spiritual and cultural immersion experience into the sufi way and the universal spiritual teachings of Mevlana Rumi. A very unique experience....

[TheOnelove12]

Mawlana Rumi. from my ancient city (Balkh) Afghanistan :)

[EfratJoo]

inspireing

[afghankabuli]

Ofcourse persian but a sunni-muslim a Tajik-persian from khurasan todays afghanistan,,,not a shia-iranian from todays islamic republic of Iran...turkish has a right to claim mawlana-balkhi(rumi) caz he lived most of his life in Turkey.., Afghanis claiming because he was a tajik-persian from todays afghanistan, when iranian-shias claims its sucks as hell like their accent.lol.caz he was sunni-muslim-tajik his language was DARI-PERSIAN a new persian born n developed in khurasan-todays Afghanistan.

[me19662]

And of course everyone knows that Rumi or Mullana was a Persian poet with Persian origin

[afghankabuli]

Todays iran is not Eran-shahr n they have no right to call it iran...its like after some century france change its name to NATO n claim we were ruling the world...as i said todays iran is a fake iran n very poor in history thats they jumping on khurasan's history...azeri-turks n arabs are taking over thier language,culture n history

[afghankabuli]

Khurasanculture i know ur fake irani-shia... Caz today's afghanistan is khurasan...Iam afghan-tajik n tajiks r khurasanians...all khurasani empires were based in today's afghanistan...iran is fuckd up by azeris ,arabs., they have nothing to be proud of

[Mortaza94]

Greatest Afghan poet

[solo141984]

@khorasanculture the name afghanistan is an english product..

[thedlund1000]

strange how such holy and spiritual writings can inspire such abusive conversations.

[hotsizzlingPERSIAN]

@khorasanculture

hahahaha funny again, you call that country afghanistan as khorassan and then you say its your country loooooooooooool you can call it what you want and there are different ethnic groups in almost every country, you cant be racist now the backwarded person here is you !!!

[hotsizzlingPERSIAN]

@khorasanculture

hahaha youre funny my dear :D if the people whouldnt know where afghanistan is located then how can they know where khorassan is to find looooooooool

[hotsizzlingPERSIAN]

@khorasanculture

dont you understand it?

i said when a german ask you about balkh then you should answer that balkh is located in todays afghanistan so that they know who mawlana was actually from ...

[hotsizzlingPERSIAN]

@khorasanculture

today?? balkh was ever located where its located lol you cant change the piece of earth. you can say balkh was ever located in the place where its todays north Aghanestan !!!

[hotsizzlingPERSIAN]

@khorasanculture

what are you talking, if an german ask you about balkh then you cant say balkh is located in khorassan becouse he probably wouldnt know where khorassan is but the country where balkh is located is called AFghansitan !!!

it was first called ARYANA

2. khorassan

now Afghanestan

[uneedtherapy42]

is that guy playing an Oud? really great sound!!

[sexdrugsRnR]

Thoreau magnified 5 times?!?!

[hotsizzlingPERSIAN]

Maulana Jalalludin Balkhi was born in 1207 in Balkh, Mazar-i- Sharif. His name was Jalalludin Mohammad. Even though he was born in Afghanistan, in Turkey and ancient Rome he was known as 'Rumi' meaning "from Rome". In the wake of Mongolian attacks his family moved to Anatolia, Turkey. He known mostly as Maulaana Jalalludin Balkhi in Afghanistan but in Turkey, to oppose his birthplace claims, Turkey is claiming that Jalalludin Balkhi is from Turkey and not Afghanistan.

[ladanj1]

how dumb you are to think rumi's poem was for god I mean allah. he was in love true love ,but nobody for sure knows who?

[cenkm]

@ladanj1 may be real love is god? who knows..

[cenkm]

@ladanj1 maybe true love is the same thing as what many call "god".. who knows..

[Pua8]

these westeners just cannot accept Islam, even the name of such a lover of Allah they changed into "rumi" which means "roman" disgusting people.. just completely change the biography of this man, and dont even know that every single word of his poems was granted by Allah , it was his love of Allah that caused him to write, not "out of a sudden"

[peymanza]

Rumi is Persian and not Turkish. :-)

[fakiryunus]

@peymanza ,

I would not tell that to Afghans - there is a reason his name contains 'Al-Balkhi'

Remember he was from Balkh and spoke a dialect different than Farsi

[kashifjamal75]

The parents of mevlana wern't forced to leave balk(afghnistan) but they did it voluntaryly because the then king thought that they had polictical ambitions and his father was the sultan ul ulma (cheif of scholars) while he was in Balkh and was well known and respected in wider world.

[merkabah08]

Real name Muhammad Jallaluddin

Why not include Muhammads name? because you don't want the norm to realize that he is from Muhammads pbuh people

[jasonthemankiller]

ask any Sufis what is there most important book they would say the holy Quran

[artistdigital]

@jasonthemankiller Rightly said! Some find the law, some search science, some understanding of God, some "The hidden meaning"...

Qur'an is the ocean! Love is the key!

[Baghchehsaraee]

I am from Iran and have always been proud that rumi is in the persian history . But after a couple of years i understand that rumi himself probably dident want us to fight about where he is from. He is a human and that is the thing we need to from him. We are all humans on one planet so let us work together as one.

[sweeetly]

@Baghchehsaraee Exactly, hence 'Say I Am You'...Bless you for your understanding.

[Baghchehsaraee]

@sweeetly Bless you to : )

[sipahi97]

@Baghchehsaraee

Very good, very nice comment. Thank you. Also I had been proud that Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi lived and become a dervish in Turkey.

But much time later, I realized that "prouding" is not found in the Mevlana's way.

[snake1234s]

You can go to Konya (where Rumi spend most of his time) to see the relation of Rumi with Islam and the effects of Islam on Rumi. But if you think that learning these facts may be uncomfortable for you, then continue reading about him one sided resources.

[christian2M]

I am from christian religion, and I have Rumi in my heart.

[omnivision2009]

Rumi is from no country or religion. He is beyond all religions and borders. He speaks to all. So please just listen to his words and hopefully you will get it. He talk about the one and he speaks to all.

[sferemonk]

The place was a shifting mirage, at once here, at once not here but there, just over the horizon.t A place of legends and dreams, existing before history, yet alive now in every human heart.

Sometimes in wonderful Persia, sometimes in mysterious Hindu Kush. Now in Boogie town, Jamaica.

[buutich]

I wonder what Rumi would have written about the bickering seen on this forum. It seems that he may be revered, but his writings have not been incorporated into the lives of some of the writers here.

[ihlara2872]

@buutich He would have said it does not matter.

[henoch66]

Rumi , the wise, lover of God (Allah) , belongs to us all. He is Gods Child.

[bitabaharlou]

Rumi is an international poet, although for those who thinnk Rumi was Afghan: Rumi was born in 1207 in Balkh. Balkh at that time belonged to IRAN, so he is an Iranian poeat. Please if you dont know about the history dont comment, Rumi's works are written in the New Persian language and it's NOT Dari, He was not Turk , he was not Afghan. He was from IRAN.

[sam7748]

India was once part of the British empire, but that did not make Indians British.

[sam7748]

So the Persian empire was one size fits all? Don't be a complete dolt!

[bitabaharlou]

Bactria (or Bactriana, from Greek Βακτριανή; Persian: باختر Bākhtar; Chinese 大夏 Dàxià) was the ancient name of a historical region in Central Asia, located between the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya (Oxus). It was a part of the northeastern periphery of the Iranian world, and this territory belongs to modern-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and, as a smaller part, Turkmenistan.

[SirianKings]

You further proved my point.

Bactria was Afghanistan (capital), Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.

iran (gayran) had nothing to do with it, so please educate your ignorant ass, and stop making yourself look silly.

[Politix]

Iran Zamin.. includes all of the places you named. look up Greater Iran.

[bitabaharlou]

The Achaemenid Empire or Persian Empire (550330 BC) was the successor state of the Median Empire, ruling over significant portions of what would become Greater Iran. The Persian and the Median Empire taken together are also known as the Medo-Persian Empire, succeeding the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

[SirianKings]

You just made yourself look stupid.

As you just mentioned, Achaemenid Empire was around (550-330 BC). Balkh, Bactra was around since 1500 BC.

Check and mate, bitch!

[123theStranger1]

really?

[bulleto79]

Thank GOD wisdom and love goes far beyond any religion, beyond any human limitation or boundary!!!!

[sensibilita]

... all you guys are splitting hairs on bald heads ... he was a MAN! period! :)

[SirianKings]

Rumi was Afghan, though not Muslim. He had to say he was because of fear of persecution, and that is why he had to move, if he was to write and present this work.

[sam7748]

You are a fount of wisdom! What more can I say?

[anselmthelost]

he says, "I am not a Christian nor a Jew nor a Hindu nor a Buddhist. I am not even a Muslim. I am in the state of astounded lucid confusion. Corner me and that corner becomes your tomb."

He was a Muslim and a lover of the Quron in the Truest sense, but he was not a fundamentalist, a parochial Muslim, and he would have objected to the simplistic attempt to hold him as muslim and Muslim only, especially interpreted through the lens of many modern Islamic theologies.

[mitralara]

@anselmthelost How nicely put - perhaps had he been born elsewhere people would be arguing about religions of different names. The meditation and trancendental thinking/path he was on is not unique to Sufism - all these paths have similarities. And before anyone guns me down, I am not diminishing the fact that his chosen faith was Islam, but the truths are too universal to box into these tribal like conflicts........

[fatimanazeer]

Please do not diminish Rumi's Islamic roots. Many westerners knowingly or unwittingly do this and its not right.

"I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen one. If anyone quotes anything except this from my sayings,

I am quit of him and outraged by these words." --Rumi

[mitralara]

@fatimanazeer This is true but also he considered himself as only a "breath breathing human being".  I think that essentially Rumi speaks of Love and the Beloved and if a westener is tuning in to this, then that is ultimately valid and valuable - paths to God are as infinite as sand as is said.

[solo141984]

@fatimanazeer do not make this all about your nasty religion again

Freedom for my Iranian brothers and sisters.. long live Iranian iron will and fire

may there voice reach the whole universe through poetry

Iran hargez naxahad mord

[kittycatcarley]

@fatimanazeer Rumi isn't about religion, he is about love. Islam is not a love-filled religion.

[solo141984]

@fatimanazeer some where muslim by choice but all in high social status where pushed in to this position.

Never forget Iranians are not islamic by roots.. so do not speak for all iranians speak for yourself

[Zishan0706]

@fatimanazeer

Finally someone actually said it

[AMIRsarkari]

without islam NO Shams e tabrizi or Rumi

[ArianianSon]

He was Afghan.

[kabaye01]

read his poems

he says

I am not from the East nor from the west

not from khurasan or turkey or Iraq

NESHANAM BAYNESHAN BASHAD

KE MEM AZ JAN JANNANUM>

He had only one connection to Etarnal Eshq, the whole mighty Allah.

[ArianianSon]

I know, I did read his poems, and I have his book. but he was born in Afghanistan, thats all I am saying

[AMIRsarkari]

he was a muslim

[ubaidullahhasanali]

it doesnt matter where he was from because he said he doesnt exsist, so wether he was from afghanistan or india or turkey or iran, what matter?

[ArianianSon]

He was Afghan , he was born in Afghanistan and all his poems were in Farsi, were did you get India from? see Wikipedia ;) he was an Afghan Persian like me:P I will never be like him but I am proud that he was from were I am from;)

[ZionistWorldOrder]

Your task is not to seek for love,

but merely to seek and find

all the barriers within yourself

that you have built against it.

-Jalal ad-Din Rumi

[HarveyEspatchelowe]

I feel that sacredness.

[03223515712]

He was a Lover of God and Prophet Mohammad(PBUH) and Religion Islam...indeed he wrote remarkable poetry

[caribind3]

Just seeing Rumis' name does something to me...

[sexxysamanthawow]

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[muhterem]

Masaallah good vid.

I love Jalaleddin Rumi.He love Rasulullah and Allahu Teala. He hes wonderfull books, the name is Mathnavi.

[mrdhikrbeads]

First time that I hear a poem and cry.

[djabhirama]

When I heard my first Rumi poem, I went out to seek more of his poems...not knowing how deaf I was... Had I just sat and listened to the quietude in my heart, I would have heard Rumi speaking to me directly.

[EMT22637]

@djabhirama nice.