Rumi, Hafiz, & the Truth of the Mystic Poets
Wisdom of Sufi Master Poets
According to the great Persian
Sufi Poet Rumi (1207-1273), love is the most difficult concept to define, "My pen splinters when I write Love," he writes.
Rumi and other Sufi Master Poets use terms and symbolism in their poetry to try to describe the love of the divine or God. When Rumi talks of ‘the lover' in his poems, he refers to the Sufi in search of the Beloved and the Beloved is God in His loving Aspect. Drunk or drunkenness is the intoxication with this love and The Veil symbolises the layers of the ego that separate the self from the Beloved. A rose is symbolic of the beauty of God in His loving Aspect. This is an objective correlative, the term coined by T.S Eliot where an object, landscape or scene is used to describe an interior state. In finding concrete imagery to define the infinite, the Sufi poets developed a language unto themselves to translate their communion with the divine.
What did Rumi have to say that appeals to people today, 700 years later?
Rumi, as well as fellow Persian Sufi poet Hafiz (1320-1389) and Indian poet Kabir (1440-1518) are known as ‘Poet Seers' or ‘Mystic Poets.' Their poems are a progression through intricacies of love and longing in the ultimate quest for truth. It is the transcendence of language and time that, seven centuries later, still draws readers to the mystic poets. Their poetry is an invitation to join them on their personal journey to truth. Many a modern day individual is on that journey to their own personal truth.
Wisdom of Sufi Master Poets
According to the great Persian
Rumi and other Sufi Master Poets use terms and symbolism in their poetry to try to describe the love of the divine or God. When Rumi talks of ‘the lover' in his poems, he refers to the Sufi in search of the Beloved and the Beloved is God in His loving Aspect. Drunk or drunkenness is the intoxication with this love and The Veil symbolises the layers of the ego that separate the self from the Beloved. A rose is symbolic of the beauty of God in His loving Aspect. This is an objective correlative, the term coined by T.S Eliot where an object, landscape or scene is used to describe an interior state. In finding concrete imagery to define the infinite, the Sufi poets developed a language unto themselves to translate their communion with the divine.
What did Rumi have to say that appeals to people today, 700 years later?
Rumi, as well as fellow Persian Sufi poet Hafiz (1320-1389) and Indian poet Kabir (1440-1518) are known as ‘Poet Seers' or ‘Mystic Poets.' Their poems are a progression through intricacies of love and longing in the ultimate quest for truth. It is the transcendence of language and time that, seven centuries later, still draws readers to the mystic poets. Their poetry is an invitation to join them on their personal journey to truth. Many a modern day individual is on that journey to their own personal truth.
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