Rumiat

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Salaam Alaikum, and a very good evening to all of you. I am feeling very privileged and honored when Zia told me that "Phuppa" - phuppa means his father's sister's his sister is Phuppi and I am Phuppa would you do some reading for me, so he then gave me some Rumi verses to read so I said, it's a good idea if we can introduce Rumi a little bit so people should know who he was so, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi, as he's called, was a mystical poet. He was very fond of mysticism. He was originally born in Iran in Nishapur, and his father was also very intellectual and then, gradually, they moved to a town in turkey called Konya. There, Rumi's mentor was a man, equally spiritual and elevated called Shams-i Tabrīzī's and when Rumi came to Konya with his father, he passed the remark there goes the river being followed by the ocean, which was Rumi behind his father so, Rumi invited him once for dinner, and then he came and sat down to eat Rumi asked him "what would you like to drink?" and he said "I want some wine." Rumi didn't hesitate because Muslims normally don't drink and he asked his servant to get a cup of wine and that fellow came and kept the wine, and he didn't touch it. He said "aren't you going to have the wine?" He said "I was only trying to test you, and test your patience as to what your reaction would be." Shams really was his mentor and very often, they would go in a room and and recite verses from the Qu'ran and while turning around and swirling, which is called the Sema and that is how the concept of the Whirling Dervishes came about in the modern Rumi tradition and whirling dervises are very common and they can be seen anywhere in Turkey and sometimes they bring their troops here, in which the people are going round and round, swirling with one hand pointed up, and one hand pointed down which basically gives the idea, that that's the heaven you can reach that high. and that's the earth, you can go as low as you want, and they keep on going round and round 10-12 people, swirling round for about half an hour to 40 minutes, and there's some background music going on in the back. that is an introduction to Rumi and he was very well admired and very well respected for his poetry he wrote a Divan of 40 thousand published and people keep on reciting them because every sentence he used to talk about, you have a much deeper meaning any phrase we talk about, has 2 or 3 interpretations and meanings and that and that's basically what it's all about. so mysticism basically means going beyond what is there. alright? so... this is what Rumi said. "The world is a watery shadow of ocean-love the sea of lights cannot be contained in single human beings. so leave fragments, and be the mountain love is alive, and someone carried along by it is more alive than lions roaring or men in their fierce courage, bandits and and push others on the road. they get wealth but they stay in one place. lovers keep moving on, never the same, not for a second. what makes others grieve, they enjoy when they look angry, don't believe their faces. it's spring lightning. a joke before the rain the truth churns forcefully along the pasture grass, gazelle and lions having dinner. love is invisible except here, in us. sometimes I praise love, sometimes love praises me love, a little shell, somewhere in the ocean floor opens its mouth. you and I can be those imaginary beings enter the shell as a single sip of seawater. Rumi, that's what it's all about. Now, try and figure out what he's trying to say because there's going to be test aftewards! thank you very much.