The title Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi means "The Spiritual Couplets". The Masnavi is a poetic collection of anecdotes and stories derived from the Quran, hadith sources, and everyday tales. Stories are told to illustrate a point and each moral is discussed in detail. It incorporates a variety of Islamic wisdom but primarily focuses on emphasizing inward personal Sufi interpretation. In contrast to Rumi's Diwan, the Masnavi is a relatively "sober" text. It explains the various dimensions of spiritua...

“Love isn't for me.” That is what Tsugumi Koeda, a first year high school student always told herself. Her small framed flat body has given Koeda a serious complex making it totally impossible for her to ever imagine she could fall in love. Until...one day when Masamune Sena, a boy from the next class sees her thin boy-like body by accident... Since then, whenever she is with the natural and frank Masamune, the feelings she's held back, feelings that she wants to be “a girl” like everybody...

One might call Hikari extraordinarily ordinary. One day, she takes up a new hobby-imagining what a romance would be like between her pretty friend Mari and the cute guy in their class, Ohtani. It's all in harmless fun, until the roles start to get tangled in Hikari's mind. Does she really have to be just the best friend in this love story? And just who is on Ohtani's mind when his eyes drift away…?

Jeláleddín Rúmí (A.D. 1207-1273) is now universally recognised by 'those who know,' as the greatest of the Persian Mystical Poets. This supremacy, in his own sphere, has been unanimously accorded to him for more than six centuries, by unnumbered myriads of his own disciples and followers in the Oriental World, who have been wrapt in devoutest admiration of the great Master to whom they have owed the highest joy and inspiration of their spiritual life. And at last, in our own Western World,...

The Masnavi I Ma'navi of Rumi is one of the most influential works of Sufism, commonly called "the Quran in Persian". It has been viewed by many commentators as the greatest mystical poem in world literature. Its diversity, complexity and profoundness*,* the timeless themes of power, God, love and fidelity, together make the MASNAVI one of the most compelling and memorable spiritual works of world literature. Its author, the Persian poet and Sufi mystic, ...

Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma ‘navi, or ‘spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored ‘mystical’ poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was a poet and a mystic, but he was first a teacher; in these verses he draws the reader into the complexities of human love and separation and explains the path to divine love through the elimina...

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A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking translations by an American poet of Persian descent.Rumi’s poems were meant to induce a sense of ecstatic illumination and liberation in his audience, bringing its members to a condition of serenity, compassion, and oneness with the divine. They remain masterpieces of world literature to which readers in many languages continually return for inspiration and succor, as well...

'The pen would smoothly write the things it knew But when it came to love it split in two, A donkey stuck in mud is logic's fate - Love's nature only love can demonstrate.' Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called 'the Koran in Persian'. The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, better known as the whirling dervishes. In orde...

The Masnavi is one of the most influential works of Sufism. It has been viewed by many commentators as the greatest mystical poem in world literature. It is a spiritual text that teaches Sufis how to reach their goal of being truly in love with God.This is the abridged Whinfield translation of the Masnavi.

Dinle, bu ney nasil sikayet ediyor, ayriliklari nasil anlatiyor: Beni kamisliktan kestiklerinden beri feryadimdan erkek, kadin… herkes aglayip inledi. Ayriliktan parca parca olmus, kalb isterim ki, istiyak derdini acayim. Aslinda uzak dusen kisi, yine vuslat zamanini arar.Ben her cemiyette agladim, inledim. Fena hallilerle de es oldum, iyi hallilerle de. Herkes kendi zanninca benim dostum oldu ama kimse icimdeki sirlari arastirmadi. Benim esrarim feryadimdan uzak degildir, ancak (h...