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The Mathnawi I – II

Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi

KLASİK

Eser Adı: The Mathnawi I – II
Yazar Adı: Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Hazırlayan: Bayram Ali Kaya
Dizi Adı: Klasik

İlk Basım Tarihi: Nisan 2022
Sayfa Sayısı: 1. Cilt 800 sayfa – 2. Cilt 840 sayfa

Kitap Boyutları: 15,5 cm x 24 cm – kutulu 2 cilt

Arka Kapak Yazısı

1.cilt:
Rumi describes this magnificent work as follows:
“This is the Book of the Mathnawi, which is the
roots of the roots of the roots of the (Mohammedan)
Religion in respect of (its) unveiling the mysteries of
attainment (to the Truth) and of certainty; and which
is the greatest science of God and the clearest
(religious) way of God and the most manifest evidence
of God.” And he invites us to hearken: “Listen to the
reed how it tells a tale, complaining of separations
Saying, “Ever since I was parted from the reed-bed,
my lament hath caused man and woman to moan. I
want a bosom torn by severance, that I may unfold
(to such a one) the pain of love-desire. Everyone
who is left far from his source wishes back the time
when he was united with it.” This is a masterpiece
of Persian poetry filled with Sufi wisdom and to
understand it, Rumi gives this advice: “O son, burst
thy chains and be free!”
2.cilt:
Rumi says these Six Books of Mathnawi give light
to the Six Directions so that “anyone who has not
performed the circumambulation may (now) perform
it (round the Mathnawi)” They are like “a lamp in
the darkness of imagination and perplexity and
phantasies and doubt and suspicion”. They “set
forth that the Religious Law is like a candle showing
the way. Unless you gain possession of the candle,
there is no wayfaring; and when you have come on
to the way, your wayfaring is the Path; and when
you have reached the journey’s end, that is the
Truth.” Encompassed with the doctrines of Sufism,
Mathnawi is igniting a spark and this spark can turn
into a flame through love. “Love hath naught to do
with the five
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