Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Look inside your bag - Rumi

Bismillah.

If you're lugging a heavy bag,
don't fail to look inside it
to see whether what is inside is
bitter or sweet.
If it's really worth bringing along,
bring it;
otherwise, empty your sack
and redeem yourself from
fruitless effort and disgrace.
Only put into your sack
that which is worth bringing
to a righteous sovereign.

- Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Mathnawi IV, 1574-1577
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Photo credit: Khurram Hussain Shah of Haqqani Fellowship

2 comments:

  1. Sufi-Dari Books

    (An imprint of Sophia Perennis)

    Announces the Publication of

    The Quatrains of Rumi

    (Beginning of Marketing Campaign: May 20, 2009):



    Rubâ‘iyât-é

    Jalâluddîn Muhammad Balkhî-Rumî

    ISBN 978-1-59731-450-3; $25.95, £19.50



    Translated by

    Ibrâhîm W. Gamard

    and

    A. G. Rawân Farhâdî



    COMPLETE TRANSLATION WITH PERSIAN TEXT,

    ISLAMIC MYSTICAL COMMENTARY,

    MANUAL OF TERMS, AND CONCORDANCE



    The first complete English translation of the Quatrains -- over 700 pages -- based on the Persian of the original, complete, and uncorrupt Forûzânfar edition –

    translated with close attention to Rumi’s idiomatic usage,

    with the collaboration of scholar from Afghanistan,

    whose native Persian remains close to Rumi’s own



    The “version-makers” of the poetry of Jalâluddîn Rumî have helped to make him perhaps today’s most popular poet in the English language.

    But they have not served his intended meaning with equal zeal,

    often portraying him as a “universal” mystic who had somehow “transcended” Islam, even though his celebrated Mathnavi has been called “the Qur’an in the Persian tongue.” Ibrâhîm W. Gamard

    and A. G. Rawân Farhâdi have labored to set the record straight,

    and to demonstrate that Mawlana’s universality is inseparable

    from his Islam -- from the depth of his Islam.



    For more information, contact Sufi-Dari Books/ Sophia Perennis at:

    jameswetmore@mac.com

    or info@sophiaperennis.com

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  2. MashaAllah, thank you sir for the valuable information!
    Mabruk to Ibrâhîm W. Gamard and A. G. Rawân Farhâdî. May Allah's endless blessings and bounties be upon them and their families.
    I will make a small ads on this book on the side panel of this blog InshaAllah.
    Wassalam.
    E

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