The Mesnavi | Mewlana Rumi
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Illustrated by a Selection of Characteristic Anecdotes, AS COLLECTED BY THEIR HISTORIAN, Mevlana Shemsuddin Ahmad, Al Arifi The pen would smoothly write the things it knew But when it came to love it split in two, A donkey stuck in mud is logic's fate Love's nature only love can demonstrate. Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called 'the Koran in Persian'. The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, better known as the whirling dervishes. In order to convey his message of divine love and unity he threaded together entertaining stories and penetrating homilies. Drawing from folk tales as well as sacred history, Rumi's poem is often funny as well as spiritually profound.
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