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System of a Down’s Serj Tankian has released the new music video for “Rumi,” a track of his recent solo EP Elasticity. The song is a tribute to Tankian’s six-year-old son and the 13th century Sufi ...
Serj Tankian Shows the Power of Sage Advice in New ‘Rumi’ Video
Rumi Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273), also called by the honorific Mawlana (Our Master), is a jurist, poet and one of the leading luminaries of Sufism. His masterpiece, the Masnavi-ye Manavi (Spiritual Couplets), is a didactic
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Rumi’s son, Sultan Valad said that Rumi used to pray to meet one of God’s hidden saints and then be transformed by him. Rumi’s prayer was answered when he met a wandering dervish named Sham-I Tabriz, who became the perfect mirror to his soul and transformed him from educated scholar to ecstatic mystic.
Rumi’s poetry is widely considered one of the great masterpieces of Islamic literature. This talk served as a deep introduction to Rumi’s masterpiece, by taking the audience inside the main teachings and structure of the Masnavi.