Руми, "Из мира Нигде"
I wonder at these people who say:
"How can the saints and the lovers love that ineffable world, since it has no place or form and is beyond description?
How can they derive replenishment and aid from it and be affected by it?"
After all, they themselves are occupied with the same thing night and day.
Take this person who loves a woman and derives replenishment from her:
After all, this replenishment, kindness, goodness, knowledge, recollection, thought, joy, heartache -- he derives all these things, and all dwell in the world of No-place.
Moment by moment he receives replenishment from these meanings and is affected by them, but this does not cause him any wonder.
Yet he wonders how some people are in love with the world of No-place and draw replenishment from it.
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"Fihi ma fih (The Discourses of Rumi)" 38-39/50
Translation by Professor William Chittick, "The Sufi Path of Love",
SUNY Press, 1985
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The "Fihi ma fih" (literally, "What's in it is in it"), also known as "The Discourses of Rumi", provides a record of 71 talks and lectures given by Rumi on various occasions, some of them formal, and some of them rather informal.
The sources are thought to have been notes made by various disciples, most likely compiled after his death. As such, Rumi did not "author" the work and probably did not intend that it be widely distributed.
The title signifies a miscellany of disparate sources, topics, occasions, and so forth.
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Franklin Lewis, "Rumi, Past and Present, East and West",
Oneworld, Oxford, 2000
"How can the saints and the lovers love that ineffable world, since it has no place or form and is beyond description?
How can they derive replenishment and aid from it and be affected by it?"
After all, they themselves are occupied with the same thing night and day.
Take this person who loves a woman and derives replenishment from her:
After all, this replenishment, kindness, goodness, knowledge, recollection, thought, joy, heartache -- he derives all these things, and all dwell in the world of No-place.
Moment by moment he receives replenishment from these meanings and is affected by them, but this does not cause him any wonder.
Yet he wonders how some people are in love with the world of No-place and draw replenishment from it.
________________________________________________
"Fihi ma fih (The Discourses of Rumi)" 38-39/50
Translation by Professor William Chittick, "The Sufi Path of Love",
SUNY Press, 1985
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The "Fihi ma fih" (literally, "What's in it is in it"), also known as "The Discourses of Rumi", provides a record of 71 talks and lectures given by Rumi on various occasions, some of them formal, and some of them rather informal.
The sources are thought to have been notes made by various disciples, most likely compiled after his death. As such, Rumi did not "author" the work and probably did not intend that it be widely distributed.
The title signifies a miscellany of disparate sources, topics, occasions, and so forth.
________________________________________________
Franklin Lewis, "Rumi, Past and Present, East and West",
Oneworld, Oxford, 2000