| Divine Face of Jalal ud Din Rumi |
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| Mathanavi:Book 1 |
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| Pause! The believers may cross any heights
Running their steeds fast along nine skies The angelic soul shall ever rise toward Him (9) At their ascension the heavens shall swing Thou may keep withholding to lap like kids Imagining your own clothes to be your steed (10) God does not entertain delusions (11) Your self-deception is no ascension It�s false to prefer either of assumptions Why do you quarrel to explain �the sun� (12) When �the sun� shall shine at the top of their heads On Judgment Day over the mindful and the uninformed Everyone shall look at their means of transport They wilt know riding they were on their own foot, Thy intuition, thoughts, knowledge and perception Fake it is like children riding bamboos, Reckon! |
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| Satan's Misconception |
| Knowledge Perception |
| NOTES |
| (9) Rumi has quoted Qu�ran: Surah Al Ma`arij verse no. 4
(10) Children sometimes stretch and twist their clothes in between their legs, imagining it to be a horse or other vehicle and pose they are riding. Similarly the illusionary masters think they are bestowed with Divine Intelligence. Ibn-Arabi has explained in Fusus al Hikam: �Tajjali is from God. He illumines our hearts.� Our ideas cannot lift us off the earth; they are stuck to �ifs� and �buts� of this world and cannot attain gnosis. (11) Rumi has quoted Qu�ran: 53:28: �But they have no knowledge therein. They follow nothing but conjecture; and conjecture avails nothing against Truth.� (12) Mostly "the sun" has been used as a metaphor for Hazrat Muhammad (saw). The truth - his Sunnah - is self-explanatory and self-evident. It does not require human reason or assumption to explain itself. It is far above the ordinary human intellect. All human reason is but assumption derived from self speculation and hence it not real - the absolute truth; so why give preference to one speculation over the other? They are incomplete, only the half truth. The Divine Guidance is forever to stay. All scientific knowledge and theory becomes obsolete with time. Don�t minimize the importance of Divine guidance before scientific information. |
| Story of Harut & Marut |
| Dialogue Between The Deaf & The Sick |
| To The Artist |
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| Rumi has well described all misconceptions a person can drive from his/her faulty knowledge, about being narcissistic, self delusional about piety, obsessively seeking power through deviant sexuality, and lustfully seeking authority and holiness through fantasy, i.e. without any contemplation, or other ecstatic measures required to gain intuitive knowledge.
In order to avoid these pitfalls its better that a person should be self-critical, be introspective and practice self accountability and constantly seek guidance and support from Allah and follow the way of Muhammad (SAW)! |
| Learn with Rumi about knowledg which makes him a superior creation |
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| Learn with Ibn-Arabi why "Man" is a superior creation. Why "man" is Allah's vicegerant (khalif) and not angels |
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