Jalaladdin Rumi

20th December 2006 with 2 Comments

UNESCO has designated 2007 as the “Year of Rumi” to mark the 800th anniversary of the birth of the mystical poet Jalaladdin Rumi. He was the founder of the Mawlawi Sufi order. Below is one of his poems translated into English:
The Taste of Morning
Time’s knife slides from the sheath,
as fish from where it [...]

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