ISBN10: 0140447911, ISBN13: 9780140447910, [publisher: Penguin Classics] Softcover 2006. Paperback. Teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. These verses draw readers into the complexities of human love and separation and explain the path to divine love through the elimination of self-regard and worldly desires. Editor(s): Williams, Alan. Translator(s): Williams, Alan. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 328. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 0140447911, ISBN13: 9780140447910, [publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, London] Softcover First Edition Paperback. This poems has been called ' the Qu'ran of the Persian language'Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma 'navi, or 'spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored 'mystical' poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was a poet and a mystic, but he was first a teacher; in these verses he draws the reader into the complexities of human love and separation and explains the path to divine love through the elimination of self-regard and worldly desires. Drawing on diverse sources from bawdy tales and fables to stories of the prophet Mohammed, these verses are brief in expression yet copious in meaning. Teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. These verses draw readers into the complexities of human love and separation and explain the path to divine love through the elimination of self-regard and worldly desires. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
[Stevenage, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]