In turn read and understand a body of work entirely different to how the authorĪs mentioned, the largest culprit is Coleman Barks. On popular translations provided to them for digesting the works of a saint and Into the Muslim readership, notably the non-Persian speakers who rely heavily The modern spiritual cauldron that non-Muslims grasp onto I literally have nothing to be faithful to, except what the scholars give.” – Coleman Barks “O f course, as I work on these poems, I don’t have the Persian to consult. Rumi then is identified as a ‘mystic’, ‘saint’ or enlightened man but never as a Muslim from reading any of Barks works. The view Barks presents is one absent of God, the Muslim God, of Islam, of the beloved Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, of any orthodox Islam that is part of Sufism. Barks himself speaks no Persian, has had no regular or reliable access to Persian translations, but has worked to re-interpret Rumi into a language, style that appeals to his world view without being true to the original author – Rumi. Mawlana Rumi has been popularised in the west mostly due to the efforts of a single man, Coleman Barks, an American who with the help of other Persian speakers translated the works into English. The Poetry genre barely moves any books each year but one man is an exception – Rumi. Point to Khorosan, and unlike the near eastern Romans, Rumi was an migrant to When Rumi was born, his title then was his incidental connection to this land.īut for clarity, there is nothing roman about Rumi, his roots and his faith all Relatively recently been conquered by the Muslims from the hands of the Romans Most of his life in Anatolia (modern day Turkey), a land that had been only The name Rumi comes from the Arabic word for ‘Roman’. Than a twitter word limit or the place below an Instagram photo. Rumi then is a meme poet, one who deserves no more space Of Rumi, and who have then kept Islam out of any understanding they mightĪbsorb incidentally. Spiritualists who have tapped into the sacred light that emits from the words Name and the English translations of his poems are on the tongue of all new age Rumi today is arguably the most popular and most read poet in the world. Who was Muhammad Rumi? A Poet, a Faqih (Jurist), an Islamic Scholar, a Theologian and Sufi Mystic and above all a lover of our beloved Muhammad ﷺ.īorn in greater Khorasan, Balkh (now Afghanistan), Mawlana
XXI References and further reading: Introduction
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