1. MAWLANA JALALIDINI RUMI
By Nasima Abdulloeva

2. CONTENT:
 Introduction
 Mawlana Jalalidini
Rumi
 Life story- meeting
Shamsi Tabrezi
 Rumi’s Poems
 Philosophy and
Teachings
 Conclusion

3. INTRODUCTION
 Sufism and the encounters that Sufism
facilitates --encounters with God, love, and
the deepest aspects of human
consciousness-- have evoked feelings in
Sufis that have poured out through their
ravaged hearts onto their lucid tongues,
providing us with some of the most beautiful
and profound poetry ever written.

4. BIOGRAPHY
 Rumi  Mawlana Jalal al-Din Muhammad of
Balkh (henceforth Rumi)
 poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic
 September 30, 1207
 Balkh, Afghanistan
 father Baha' al-DinWalad
 17 December 1273 (Konya,Turkey) 
predicted his death

5. WORKS
 Maṭnawīye
Ma'nawī (Spiritual
Couplets)
 Dīwān-e Shams-e
Tabrīzī (The Works of
Shams of Tabriz)
 Fihi Ma Fihi (In It What's
in It,
 Majāles-e Sab'a (Seven
Sessions
 Makatib (The Letters

6.  In 2007, he was
described as the "most
popular poet in America
 His doctrine advocates
unlimited
tolerance, positive
reasoning, goodness, cha
rity and awareness
through love.
 Rumi believed
passionately in the use of
music, poetry and dance
as a path for reaching
God

7. MEETING WITH SHAMS OF TABRIZ
 It was his meeting with the dervish Shams-e
Tabrizi on 15 November 1244 that completely
changed his life. From an accomplished teacher
and jurist, Rumi was transformed into an ascetic
 the night of 5 December 1248
 Rumi's love for, and his bereavement at the
death of, Shams found their expression in an
outpouring lyric poems, Divan-e Shams-e
Tabrizi. He himself went out searching for
Shams and journeyed again to Damascus.

8. POEMS
 Let's delve into the
beauty of the Islamic
knowledge and
discover the hidden
wisdom behind Rumi's
words, through some
of his well known
poems.
 Hidden (deep)
meaning

9. The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't meet each other,
they're in each other all along.

10. PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE  Rumi believes that it is
not logical to develop
 According to love for temporal and
Sufism, the search for ordinary things and to
love refers to the ability get enchanted by their
to love rather than the beauty. Rumi says that
necessity of being one should love the
loved. source and origin of this
beauty
“loving does not
 He says that eternal
depend on being
beauty belongs to God
loved”
 this universe is only a
Life  Love
passing reflection of
eternal beauty of God.

11. LOVE OF GOD
 the source of all souls is God
 separation raised restlessness in souls to return
to their origin, the God.
 Every soul feels a continual attraction towards
its source
 But this attraction is screened by material
constraints like our body, universe and matter.
 In the depths, every atom is conscious of its
origin and every creature is ever dissatisfied
and wants to live a higher life.

12. I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by
dying?
Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar
with angels blessed; but
even from angelhood
I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,
I shall become what no
mind ever conceived.

13. BIRTH, DEATH AND RESURRECTION
 the idea that one  Rumi makes it clear
continues to be born in that only those who
the physical world seek love rather than
being subjected to the worldly pleasures
cycles of death and can pass the test of
rebirth until the soul immortality and enter
can finally be released the heavenly realms.
from the "prison", Those who fail, will
symbolized by the return to the physical
word "chains", world, again and again
becoming immortal.

14. WHIRLING DERVISHES
 Following his death, his followers and his
son Sultan Walad founded the Mevlevi
Order, also known as the Order of the Whirling
Dervishes, famous for its Sufi dance known as
the Sama ceremony
 samāʿrepresents a mystical journey of spiritual
ascent through mind and love to the Perfect
One
 The seeker then returns from this spiritual
journey, with greater maturity, to love and to be
of service to the whole of creation without
discrimination with regard to
beliefs, races, classes and nations.

16. KONYA,TURKEY

17. This world is
in deep
trouble, from
top to bottom.
Bu t i t
c a n be
s wi f t l y
he a l e d
by t he
ba l m of
l ov e .

18. REFERENCES
 http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Poets/R
umi.pdf
 http://www.rumi.net/about_rumi_main.htm
 http://islam.uga.edu/sufipoetry.html
 http://peacefulrivers.homestead.com/hafiz.ht
ml
 http://suite101.com/article/rumis-poems--the-
sufi-philosophy-behind-the-poetry-of-rumi-
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