The Essence Of Rumi's Masnevi-Büyük Boy_{Including His Life and Works}

It is a remarkable research in English on Rumi that
covers the period in which Rumi lived and the teachings
of Rumi's fatherhis disciple Brurhaneddin Tirmizi and
Rumi' Master Shams. Then the best verses of Rumi's
Masnavi follow in original form (Persian) corrected
under the light of authentic MSS.Then the English
translation of the verses is given in two parts:
a)Literal translation of the verses b)The commentary of
the same based on the best commentaries written in
UrduPersian Turkish (Ottoman) and English

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It is a remarkable research in English on Rumi (Mevlana
Jelal al-Din Rumi) that covers the period in which Rumi
lived and the teachings of Rumi's father his disciple
Burhaneddin Tirmizi and Rumi's Master Shams. Then the
best verses of Rumi's Masnevi follow in original form
(Persian) corrected under the light of authentic MSS.
Then the English translation of the verses is given in
two parts:

Literal translation of the verses in Modern English.
The commentary of the same is based on the best
commentaries written in Urdu Persian Turkish (Ottoman)
and English. Consequently this new step gives an
essential skeleton of the Masnevi in a much more
organised way to a reader and a ladder to the spiritual
traveller who wants to reach a high stage of humanity.

Mevlana Jelal al-Din Rumi

Mevlana Jelal al-Din Rumi who is known as "Mevlana" in
Turkey and as "Rumi" in the western world can be called
a mystic poet a thinker a theosophist or a Sufi; but
if you could ask him "What are you?" He would say "I
am nothing but a simple lover of God". A true lover of
God has no definite nationality language or race for he
loves everything without discrimination. He wrote the
Masnevi in six volumes which gives the message of love
unity perfection brotherhood and peace. It teaches man
the path of Divine Love that exalts him from lower stage
to the highest one.

For more than seven centuries his Masnevi has influenced
the social and religious life in Turkey Iran
Afghanistan Pakistan India and the Central Asia.
Recently he has also drawn attention of the Western
scholars and poets.

He was born at Balkh now in Afghanistan in the year
1207; and was brought up under his father's good care
who himself was a well-respected scholar and a lover of
God. Three years before the furious army of the Mongols
invaded Afghanistan Rumi's father migrated from his
motherland to the Central Anatolia and passing through
Iran Iraq Mecca and Damascus he came to the city of
Karaman 100 km in the south of Konya the capital of the
Great Seljuk Empire those days. He stayed in Karaman for
some years where Rumi got married. Being invited by the
ruling Sultan Qayqubad they came to Konya.

Rumi studied Arabic Persian theology jurisprudence
logic philosophy mathematics Islamic history and
commentaries on the Koran partially at Balkh Damascus
and partially at Konya.

When he met Shams-i Tebrizi a great lover of God and a
dervish his whole life changed. He gave up teaching and
became a Godloving person. He learnt Divine secrets not
from the books but from the chest of Shams. When Shams
left Rumi was alone. He began to moan like the
reed-flute. His soul became restless due to the love of
God. During ten years he wrote his Masnevi of 30.000
verses all in the same metre in Persian.