Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship
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Considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, The Big Red Book is perhaps the greatest work of Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the bestselling poet in America. Rumi was born in 1207 to a long line of Islamic theologians and lawyers on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire in what is now Afghanistan. In order to escape the invading Mongol armies of Genghis Khan, his family moved west to a town now found in Turkey, where he eventually became the leader of a school of whirling dervishes. It was a fateful day in 1244 when he met Shams Tabriz, a wild mystic with rare gifts and insight. The renowned scholar Rumi had found a soul mate and friend who would become his spiritual mentor and literary muse. "What I had thought of before as God," Rumi said, "I met today in a human being." Out of their friendship, Rumi wrote thousands of lyric poems and short quatrains in honor of his friend Shams Tabriz. They are poems of divine epiphany, spiritual awakening, friendship, and love. For centuries, Rumi's collection of these verses has traditionally been bound in a red cover, hence the title of this inspired classic of spiritual literature.
Introduction 1Rumi's Life 1The Soul Essence of Shams Tabriz 7I Odes (Ghazals) 13Names for the Mystery 141 Al-Fattah, The Opener 15Jars of Springwater 16God in the Stew 16Undressing 16Flightpaths 17Mountaintop Trough 17Open Window 18A Northern Wind 18Entrance Door 19The Opener 19The Source of Joy 20The Silent Articulation of a Face 20Cry Out Your Grief 21The Heart Acts as Translator 21We Are Tired of Secret Joy 22Fasting 22In the Arc of Your Mallet 23The Torrent Leaves 23Locked Out of Life 24Granite and Glass 24A Garden is Questioning the Dawn 25What a Fine Song 25Soul Spring 262 Al-Jami, The Gatherer 27Everyone Outdoors Talking 28A Story They Know 29The Meeting 29Leaving 31We Are the Sun 31Uncle of the Jar 32Asylum 33A Delicate Girl 33Blade 34Strange Gathering 34Keep Moving 35Trees 36Walking Out of the Treasury Building 36Keeper of Secrets 37The Shop 38The Wine Vat's Lid 38The Waterwheel 39A Community of the Spirit 40No Ordinary Friendship 41At Home in Both Places 413 Al-Batin, The Hidden 43The Living Doubleness 44Green from Inside 44Saladin 45Harvest 45See What You Have Despised in Yourself 46Climb to the Execution Place 46To the Extent They Can Die 47Broom Work 47Back into the Reedbed 48Bowls of Food 48You So Hidden 51The Tent 51Privacy 52This Splashing Around 52Drum 53Wherever He is Moving 53This Soup 53What the Sun Says Rising 554 Al-Khabir, The Aware, The Knowing 57The Knots Unite 58Solomon Ant 58Water from the Well of the Soul 59Talking to the Luck-Bird 60A Beautiful Walk Inside You 60More Range 61Knowledge Beyond Love 61Cup 62Sour, Doughy, Numb, and Raw 63Someone Being Drawn to You 63A New-Green Branch 63The Oldest Thirst There is 64The Reed Flute's Work 64Roselit Piece of Shell 65A Bowl 65Unfold Your Own Myth 66Bismillah 675 Al-Bari, The Maker From Nothing 68Two Days of Silence 69Soul Houses 69One Being Inside All 70You Make Your Own Oil as You Cook 71What is Inside the Ground 71Two Donkeys 72Spring Drumming Again 72Go Behind the Screen 73The Mill 73The Elusive Ones 74A Garden Where the House Was 74After Being in Love, the Next Responsibility 75Thornbush Music 76Spindrift 76Spillings 776 Al-Hayy, The Living 78The Verge of Tears 79Entering the Shell 79A Mixed-Breed Apple 80What You Gave 80Desolation 81Choose a Suffering 81The Death of Saladin 82The Music We Are 82Glory to Mutabilis 83The Most Alive Moment 84It is All Laughing 84The Reply 84The Diver's Clothes Lying Empty 85Decorating the Cell 86With You Here Between 86A Bit of Embroidery 87Your Love Reveals Your Beauty 88The Wood and the Flames, Still Talking 88The Day I Die 89Old, Yet Freshly Begun 90Never Quite as Alive7 Al-Haqq, The Truth 91Hamza's Nothing 92Another Invitation 92Miles of Riverside Canebrake 93Alive with Scripture 93You Shall Not See Me 95A Brightening Floor 96Wind That Mixes with Your Fire 96Not Intrigued with Evening 96A Lion Looking for Laughter 97The Face 97Greed and Generosity 98The Rights of Crying 98The Other Thing 99My Worst Habit 99Soul and Friend 1008 As-Salaam, Peace 101Calm in the Midst of Lightning 102A Mountain Nest 102Full Sun 103Begin 103A Clean Sandy Spot 104A Vague Trace 104Talking Through the Door 104Look, Fish 106In Prison 107Rumi's Deathbed Poem 107The Beloved Night 108Quietness 108Sanai 109Spring is Christ 110Red Shirt 110Not a Day on Any Calendar 111The Least Figure 1119 Ar-Rahim, The Compassionate 112I See My Beauty in You 113Your Morning Shade 113The Wave of That Agreement 113The Faint Lament of Form 114Evidence 115Evening Sky Garnet Red 115This Battered Saucepan 116The Mystery of the Way 116Champion Lovemaker and Leader of Men 117The Buddhist Sufi 117Up to the Neck 118Open Your Mouth to This Wind 119Wetness and Water 119Out of the Image-Making Business 121Flutes for Dancing 121Wax 121The Many Appeals of the Color Red 12210 An-Nur, Light 123The Light Inside the Face 124A Walking Fire 124The Shine in the Fields 125More of Your Names 125Daring Enough to Finish 126Inhale Autumn, Long for Spring 126Ocean Light 127Soul Light and Sun the Same 128The Generations I Praise 128Sneezing Out Animals 128The Importance of Setting Out 129Walking Up, Dawn Music 129Move into the Sun 130The Ocean Moving All Night 130A Cleared Site 130Some Kiss 131Sticks Full of Light 131Sunlight 132Wet and Dry 133One Drop 133Passage into Silence 133Shreds of Steam 13411 Ash-Shakur, The Grateful 135Underwater in the Fountain 136Drowsy 136So We Can Have What We Want 136Every Tree 137Doorsill 138What Fear of Loss? 139Is This a Place Where Stories Are Acted Out? 139The Sun's Glowing Castiron Mold 140Preparing the Pen 140How You Became What You Are Now 141Bonfire at Midnight 142A Ripe Fig 142The Deepest Rest 143Stingy Aloes Wood 143Sweet Outlaws 144A Grape 145Shamss Air 145Content with Ignorance 146The New Moon 14612 Al-Latif, The Subtle, The Intricate 147What Is Not Here 148Raw, Well-Cooked, and Burnt 148Why and Where We Go 149Word Fog 149Leaves About to Let Go 150Spilled Speech 151The Dance of Your Hidden Life 151Hunt Music 152An Ointment Mixed with Earth 152If You Want to Live in Your Soul 153Spring 154Lost Camel 155Goldsmithing 155The Nightwatchman 156Strange Business 156Phrase Your Question 157Lies from Each Other 158I Am the Ground 158We Are Three 15913 Bawa Muhaiyaddeen 160A Transparent Tree 161Silkworms 161A Voice Through the Door 162A Great Rose Tree 162A Light Within His Light 162Pure Silence 163A Waking Town 164Walkingstick Dragon 164Let the Way Itself Arrive 165Mounted Man 165Clouds 166Language is a Tailor's Shop Where Nothing Fits 166Only One Sunrise a Day 167That Moment Again 168I Have Such a Teacher 168The Snow-World Melts 169Wind That Tastes of Bread and Salt 169A Thirsty Fish 170A Waterbird Flying into the Sun 17014 Osho 172Friday 173Musk in a Small Box 173A Hundred and One 174A Man Talking to His House 174The Time of Divulging 175Holiday Without Limits 177We Cannot Decide 178I Pass By the Door 179Joseph 179No Discussion 180Burnt Kabob 180Our Turn 181Love's Nightcap 181Answers from the Elements 182Say Yes Quickly 182Basra Dates 183Raggedness 184A Great Wagon 185See Where It Comes From 185The Oven's Question 18615 Ramana Maharshi 187Would You Bow? 188I Am Not This 189I Met One Traveling 189The Only Obligation 190Struck Tent 190Empty Boat 191Infidel Fish 191When Your Secret is Spoken 192Baby Pigeon 192An Egypt Wandering Wilderness 195Come Back, My Friend 195I Am More the Way You Are 196A Closed Jar 196Almost in Sight 19716 Dissolving the Concept of "God" 198A Question 199The Taste of Morning 199You Are as You Are 200Thorn Witness 200The Self We Share 201Stranded Somewhere 202Let the Soup Simmer 202Like a Fig 203Winter or Summer 204Whereabouts Unknown 205Drawn by Soup 205The Last of Your Wine 205I Am Not 206This Love Which is Made of Our Love for Emptiness 206The Whole Place Goes Up 207Flood Residue 207Spoken Things 208Sleep 209This Night of Talking 209Your Presence 210At That Meeting 211A Walk You Can Take 212Headless Camels 21217 Playing 213Playing and Being Played 214Inside the Rose 215As the Sky Does in Water 215Seeds and Rain 216One Thing I Did Wrong 216Hometown Streets 216Pictures of the Soul 217Border Stations 218No More the Presence 218Givens 218I Keep Using Two Pronouns 219Your Old Aunt and Uncle 220This Praising Sound 220When Completely Naked 221Friends with Sunlight 221I'm Not Saying This Right 222The Steambath 22218 Shams Tabriz: The Friend 224The Friend 225An Invisible Bee 226A Grainy Taste 226The Mirror Between Us 226The Pleiades 227Parinda, the One Who Flies Away 227The One Who Left 228Avalanche 228Your Turn at Dice 228Back to Being 229Your Face 229The Sweet Blade of Your Anger 230Soul, Heart, and Body One Morning 230What I Say Makes Me Drunk 231Any Chance Meeting 231Sitting Together 232
