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The Masnavi: Book One
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The first Episode resonates with the love, mercy and wit that I have associated with Rumi since my first introduction to the great poet.
The second Episode, "The King and the Slave Girl" tells the story of, then justifies the murder of a goat herder on the basis of divine enlightenment being the motivation.
As much as I admire all the poetry of Rumi I have read before this story, this passage is hard to get past. Full disclosure, I also disregard most of Leviticus from the Old Testament. I strive to acknowledge the context in which ancient texts were written, but this one is still tricky.
I'm listening to this book on Podiobooks as a free podcast version of the whole book. The flute the musical accompaniment enhances the spoken poetry.
This is a direct quote from the website that I agree with based on the first two parts:
"Rumi's poetry is celebrated for its musicality. This translation, the Oxford World's Classics edition of which was awarded the 2004 Lois Roth Prize, follows the Persian original by using rhyming couplets. Toure Moumouni and Alain Kersanty perform Rumi's favourite musical instruments, the ney, the robab, the tar, and the daf, to give you a complete and authentic listening experience."
The second Episode, "The King and the Slave Girl" tells the story of, then justifies the murder of a goat herder on the basis of divine enlightenment being the motivation.
As much as I admire all the poetry of Rumi I have read before this story, this passage is hard to get past. Full disclosure, I also disregard most of Leviticus from the Old Testament. I strive to acknowledge the context in which ancient texts were written, but this one is still tricky.
I'm listening to this book on Podiobooks as a free podcast version of the whole book. The flute the musical accompaniment enhances the spoken poetry.
This is a direct quote from the website that I agree with based on the first two parts:
"Rumi's poetry is celebrated for its musicality. This translation, the Oxford World's Classics edition of which was awarded the 2004 Lois Roth Prize, follows the Persian original by using rhyming couplets. Toure Moumouni and Alain Kersanty perform Rumi's favourite musical instruments, the ney, the robab, the tar, and the daf, to give you a complete and authentic listening experience."
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Rumi poems i read its translation in English and Arabic and read a book in arabic to understand it a little. It says that the first book is about human(self) . The story about a king that was hunting...the king reffers to (soul) found a slave girl(human self)and after some time the girl(human self got ill) ..the king (Soul)cried asking for help og his beloved(Self) and ordinary doctors failed to know what is wrong with girl(Self)...king (Soul) had a vision that god will send a curing doctor(religious preacher) that will cure the girl(Self). The doctor(preacher) knew that the reason of girl(self) illness was that girl(Self) loved a handsome strong man (refers to worldly sins and pleasures) so he asked the king(soul) to invite the handsome guy(worldly pleasures) and let him marry the girl. After some time of joy ..the doctor(preacher) gave a poison that made the strong handsome guy(worldly pleasures) weak and lost beauty,...so the girl (Self) left the guy(worldly pleasures) and went back to the king(Soul) and lived happily.The killing of the strong guy(worldly pleasurs) was god's will. This explains that Rumi didnt mean killing of a guy but killing of the desire to worldly pleasures and sin by help of religious preacher. I just read it days ago ..i wish it transfered the idea well...forgive me if things look complicated...they r really so complicated...thanks
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