2007: Year of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Unesco has announced that the 800th anniversary of Mevlana Rumi will be celebrated in the Netherlands in 2007 as the Unesco Year of Mevlana Rumi in the Netherlands.
Mevlana Rumi was born in Balkh (now part of Afghanistan) and died in Konya (now Turkey). Rumi’s significance transcends national, ethnic and religious boundaries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world’s languages in various formats. After Rumi’s death, his followers founded the Mevlevi Order, better known as the “Whirling Dervishes“, who believe in performing their worship in the form of dance and music ceremony called the sema.
The general theme of his thoughts is essentially about the concept of Tawheed (unity) and union with his beloved (the primal root) and the longing for reunity which could be achieved throught music, poetry and dancing. The sacred dance of the Whirling Dervishes, Sema / turning, symbolizes a mystical journey where the traveller turns towards the truth and love, abandons hostility, hatred, reaches ‘Perfection’ where true peace and harmony exists and returns as a more mature person. Not difficult to understand why Rumi’s message also attracted Jews, Christians, Hindus and Buddhists. For many followers Rumi was a true poet of love:
Love’s nationality is separate from all other religions,
The lover’s religion and nationality is the Beloved (God).The lover’s cause is separate from all other causes
Love is the astrolabe of God’s mysteries.
From: The Mysteries of the Universe and Rumi’s Discoveries on the Majestic Path of Love
A question I (since I’m not an expert on his work) have: Does Rumi prefer love as the means to submit oneselves to the divine revelation and what does this mean for the place of reason in his work?
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