what do you think of these poems by Rumi( a great muslim poet)?

Question

Happy the one who has become like us;
who has become all surrender and contenment;
Who has become the pledge of love and madness;
who has become a jewel in the sea of purity.


As salt resolved in the ocean
I was swallowed in God's sea,
Past faith, past unbelieving,
Past doubt, past certainty.
Suddenly in my bosom
A star shone clear and bright;
All the suns of heaven
Vanished in that star's light


Come, come, whoever you are.
Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow
a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that

you have built against it.”


Lord, said David, since you do not need us,
why did you create these two worlds?
Reality replied: O prisoner of time,
I was a secret treasure of kindness and generosity,
and I wished this treasure to be known,
so I created a mirror: its shining face, the heart;
its darkened back, the world;
The back would please you if you've never seen the face.
Has anyone ever produced a mirror out of mud and straw?
Yet clean away the mud and straw,
and a mirror might be revealed.
Until the juice ferments a while in the cask,
it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright,
you must do a little work.
My King addressed the soul of my flesh:
You return just as you left.
Where are the traces of my gifts?
We know that alchemy transforms copper into gold.
This Sun doesn't want a crown or robe from God's grace.
He is a hat to a hundred bald men,
a covering for ten who were naked.
Jesus sat humbly on the back of a donkey, my child!
How could a zephyr ride an donkey?
Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.
Reason, tread the path of selflessness into eternity.
Remember God so much that you are forgotten.
Let the caller and the called disappear;
be lost in the Call.


We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely!
Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?
We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.
We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.
Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!
Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift;
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.

he lived about 800 years ago and last year the translation of his poems outsold shakespear in the north amreica!!!!

I dont know if most christians like it or not, but I know some christians who like and admire his work

I am sorry for you king... because you dont know what is Islam at all, and you are also full of hatred toward it

I am sorry for you king... because you dont know what is Islam at all, and you are also full of hatred toward it

Answer 1

It is brilliant and awesome.

Too good. Really spoken from the bottom of the heart.
Very well said. I hope I was born in the yester years so that I would have met him and maybe even gone to the extent of asking him to be my teacher.

Answer 2

Although I m answering this Q again, I would like to say this time that I had read this poem and had been heartened in my faith in Islam. The beautiful poem just demonstrates the beauty, truth and moral of Islam. The poet (a great sufi, I found out abt him) is gifted by God and knows how to thank him. Peace be upon him and his poems which are a treasure in the face of literature by human beings.

Answer 3

Rumi was a great and wise man.. so was Jesus, Confucius and Buddha..there are many wise religious people who know and knew the only true path to enlightenment is through love and understanding of the world and people around us

Answer 4

they are stable poems. yet in spite of this, i like something with the aid of Rumi. My well-liked of his is "The customer residing house." have you ever examine something with the aid of Kahlil Gibran? He has form of a similar tone as Rumi, and he became right into a Christian. I discern even Fireball would desire to like Gibran.

Answer 5

afshin *,
Didn't he write more than one poem? I thought I had one laying around . .. . . . . Oh, here it is:
Happy the one who has become like us;
or we'll cut off his head,
all who don't convert,
will suddenly be dead.

Out in the desert,
We'll steal from caravan's like muhammed,
and bury women to theirs necks,
and stone them for a lie.

Let's convert the world,
or blow it up instead.
By Allah's will we'll turn them all,
or cut of the infidels head.

Nice poem, huh?

Answer 6

He was a very wise man. I used to have a book of this writings but a friend borrowed it and that day and today...

Answer 7

Muslim PIG

Answer 8

Great but most christians'll not understand it

Answer 9

pretty good - when did he live?