HUGS TO HUMANITY/2007 International Year of Rumi/UNESCO

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UNESCO has named 2007 International Year of Rumi the number-one, best-selling poet of the United States whose verses read by celebrities like Deepak Chopra,Madonna, Goldie Hawn and Demi Moore . According to Time Magazine Rumi is,Mystic of the Century and according to the New York Times Rumi is the most influential poet in America since the 1960s who has outsold Shakespeare . Who is this Mevlana Mohammed Jelaled-din Rumi , that over 700 years after his death his words and thoughts are causing such a stir and Westerns say that Rumi's philosophy is crucial for peace on the planet today?First , here is one way in which he described himself :
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.




Rumi's popularity is all the more remarkable given the suspicions between America and the Muslim world. What is it about Rumi that attracts so many Americans who says : My Mother is Love My Father is Love My Prophet is Love My God is Love I am a child of Love I have come only to speak of
Love .

America and the Muslim world each insist on viewing the other through its own cultural lens. What Americans cherish as freedom, the Muslim world views as tending towards debauchery. What many Muslims consider pious restraint, Americans see as evidence of control by a misogynist theocracy.
Amidst these tensions, Americans from all walks of life are reading Rumi. If the Muslim world and America are so seemingly incomprehensible to each other, how has a medieval dervish from the East nestled so close to America's heart? The answer must be Rumi, was a philosopher and mystic of Islam, but not a Muslim of the orthodox type. His doctrine advocated unlimited tolerance, positive reasoning, goodness, charity and awareness through love. To him and to his disciples all religions were more or less truth. Looking with the same eye on Muslim, Jew and Christian alike, his peaceful and tolerant teaching has appealed to men of all sects and creeds.
Come, come again...
Whatever you are...
Whether you are infidel,
idolater or fireworshipper.
Whether you have broken your vows
of repentance a hundred times
This is not the gate of despair,
This is the gate of hope.
Come, come again...
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[TropicalBuddha]

Rumi is wonderful. Very influencial to my life. Has much in common with Buddhism and Taoism.

[hitturkey24]

thansk for watching and praise to my great grandfather.

take care

[TropicalBuddha]

Rumi existed over half a dozen centuries ago, and he is your great grandfather? How so?

[hitturkey24]

well,

the state keeps the recoeds and they have gave us this in our famiy registration form. however i think real grandchildren of Rumi are those who follow him by loving everybody and everything on the world without any prejudice and any excuse of discrimination.

B.Rgds

[hitturkey24]

yes i am from the 23. generation .well he also jokes about turks in some parts of mathnawi anyway we are all sons of Adam so we are all from the same race anyway.best regards

[mayfairpeter]

hugs to humanity that is except gays according to this very sweet man

[lovekisslaugh]

shiften2000 you said it very well and clearly, good job.

[parentartisthealer]

thank you for this reminder of a poetic life. rumi's words are etched on a memorial to my parents, in the heart of suburban canada. i'm glad of his recognition again in 2007.

ciao

[dekh81]

all claim ownership of Rumi but Rumi belongs to no one but the One. subhanAllah

[TropicalBuddha]

Agreed. Still...Rumi's words are in my heart, forever.

[extremecrazyamazing1]

ai dont anderstan a little chit about wath ju sais! ju are bad in inglish! lurn bedder inglish before nekst time ju post a widio.....