hello, Rumi wrote 'reason is powerless in the expression of love'....Where in the mathnawi is it please.thanx

Question

hello, my name is tony davies and i am studying theology at Liverpool Hope University in the UK. My above question is related to an essay i am writing at present and i am finding it difficult to locate the page number and volume that the words are taken from so i can reference it correctly. I believe it is from the Mathnawi, a great work of the persian sufi mystic poet Rumi. It may not be but an answer to my question if possible would be fantastic and greaty appreciated. Please help if you can and read this.

thankyou,
tony davies

Answer 1

Read this link:

http://www.rumi.org.uk/life.html

The name Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi stands for Love and ecstatic flight into the infinite. Rumi is one of the great spiritual masters and poetical geniuses of mankind and was the founder of the Mawlawi Sufi order, a leading mystical brotherhood of Islam.

Rumi was born in Wakhsh (Tajikistan) under the administration of Balkh in 30 September 1207 to a family of learned theologians. Escaping the Mongol invasion and destruction, Rumi and his family traveled extensively in the Muslim lands, performed pilgrimage to Mecca and finally settled in Konya, Anatolia, then part of Seljuk Empire. When his father Bahaduddin Valad passed away, Rumi succeeded his father in 1231 as professor in religious sciences. Rumi 24 years old, was an already accomplished scholar in religious and positive sciences.

He was introduced into the mystical path by a wandering dervish, Shamsuddin of Tabriz. His love and his bereavement for the death of Shams found their expression in a surge of music, dance and lyric poems, `Divani Shamsi Tabrizi'. Rumi is the author of six volume didactic epic work, the `Mathnawi', called as the 'Koran in Persian' by Jami, and discourses, `Fihi ma Fihi', written to introduce his disciples into metaphysics.

If there is any general idea underlying Rumi's poetry, it is the absolute love of God. His influence on thought, literature and all forms of aesthetic expression in the world of Islam cannot be overrated.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi died on December 17, 1273. Men of five faiths followed his bier. That night was named Sebul Arus (Night of Union). Ever since, the Mawlawi dervishes have kept that date as a festival.
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Answer 2

not sure but to try....

here's the link......

http://www.khamush.com/life.html