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Rumi, "Hope is the deaf man"
Sunlight offers a selection from Mathnawi, Book III in:1. a version from the Helminskis ( Read more... ) -
Gamard & Farhadi, "The Quatrains of Rumi" (Corrections)
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. . . . . . . . . . . WRONG DATES (and Names)1 589 FG1882 Kermani d. 1338 MUST BE 1238 ( Read more... ) -
Rumi, Mathnawi, "We seek from God the ability to have good manners"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ENGLISH - Robert Bly ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We should ask God
To help us toward manners. Inner gifts
Do not find their way
To creatures without just respect.
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Место рождения Руми - гор. Вахш (возле Курган-Тюбе совр. Таджикистан)
Mawlana was NOT born in Balkh:
- Balkh was a metropolis, prior to the Mongol invasion
- Rumi was born in a small town, about 90 miles east, in the valley of Wakhsh River
- since this region is on the other side of the Amu Darya
- it is in present-day Tajikistan- which flows into the Amu Darya (Oxus) River ( Read more... )
