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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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