![]() Is it possible to know God? There is a divine Hadith, God, the Almighty says: "I was a hidden Treasure and I loved that I be known, so I created the creation so that I may be known." Rumi says: "Whatever notion you have of God, He must be something like that because He is the Creator of all of your notions." God's creatures are not like Him in any way yet they cannot be other than Him either, says Rumi. ![]() I am the dust on the path of Mohammad The Chosen One." For Rumi, God is the living, self-subsisting, the supporter of all, as revealed in the Koranic verse, Ayatul Kursi. The late Harvard Professor of Indo- Muslim Culture, Anne Marie Schimmel remarked, "Mawlana's poetry and prose are an attempt to circumambulate Him whose work is so evident in the universe and who has promised mankind that He will hear his prayers (Sura 60/42 Koran)."Ĭould it be otherwise? Did not the venerable Mawlana declare in unequivocal terms, "I am the servant of the Koran as long as I have life. Hence it has become necessary for me to recite poems since others have wished for this."īut the Mathnawi, his magnum opus, comes up with this remarkable preface: "This is the book of the Mathnawi, which is the roots of the roots of the (Islamic) religion in respect of its unveiling the mysteries of attainment (of the truth) and of certainty and which is the greatest science of God and the clearest (religious) way of God and the most manifest evidence of God" (translation - Nicholson). He made a remark in his Discourses ( Fihi-Mafihi) that he spouts verses for entertaining his friends, "as if someone was to put his hand into tripe to wash it because his guests want to eat tripe. Hazrat Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (b 1207), hailed as "the greatest mystic poet of the world" by the German poet philosopher Wolfgang Von Goethe for his Mathnawi and Divan-e-Kabir, was surprisingly depreciative of writing poetry. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. ![]()
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