![]() The master praises him saying that he is a candle, giving light to the assembly, but Rumi protests saying that he was no candle but “scattered smoke.” Throughout the poem Rumi insists that all he wants is to remain Shams’s disciple and to make use of his wings in order to learn to fly.Īs there has been some debate about the accuracy of Coleman Barks’ translations of Rumi, it is important to point out that his translations convey the main meaning and essence of Rumi’s poems if not providing a literal rendering. The master teases him saying that he is not mad enough, so he decides to go wild. The poem is in the form of a conversation between Rumi and his master Shams. According to him, he was dead then became alive, he was tears then he became laughter. The following poem is one of the first poems that he wrote after meeting Shams, in which he expresses the spiritual transformation that happened to him. He was the most prolific Iranian writer and also used a larger variety of different types of rhymes and rhythms than any other Persian poet. In addition to those two books he also wrote 44 shorter pieces called Tarji’at, as well as 1994 quatrains on mystical issues. Divan contains some 3230 ghazals or lyrics. ![]() It seems that Shams opened the floodgate of verse in Rumi who wrote a massive work of six volumes, the Mathnavi, Divan-e Shams written in praise of Shams and the pain of separation from him when he mysteriously disappeared never to return. This chance meeting and their subsequent meetings had a life-changing influence on Rumi and turned him from a theologian into a mystic and a poet. Rumi was already established as a professor of theology and an Islamic jurist at Konya with many disciples and followers when on 14 November 1244 at the age of 37 he met a 59-year old wandering Sufi called Shams Tabriz in the bazaar in Konya. After the Mongol invasion of Central Asia, Rumi’s father and the entire family left Balkh, and after spending some time in different parts of Iran and in Baghdad they settled in Konya, the capital of the Seljuq sultanate. ![]() Rumi was born on 30 th September 1207 in the city of Balkh which at that time was part of Iran’s Khorasan province, and which is now a city in North-West of Afghanistan. ![]()
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