Keagungan Rumi

Maulana Rumi (1207-1273) adalah seorang maha guru spiritual dan puisi mistik untuk semua zaman. Rumi berdiri di atas puncak gunung dan melihat eksistensi manusia. Rumi menggabungkan ajaran agama, sufisme dan puisi. Pada pendahuluan karya al- Matsnawinya, bahwa karyanya ini hanyalah tafsir puitis dari makna dan pesan al-Qur'an. Dalam terminologi sufi, Rumi sudah sampai pada derajat al- insan al- kamil, manusia paripurna. Sehingga Rumi, dipandang sedang mendendangkan lagu cinta dengan sempurna, bergairah dan sangat bersahabat... (who has sung the most beautiful and profound songs of love, comppasion and companionship). Rumi adalah seorang mursyid yang membimbing manusia menapaki jalan spiritual. Bagi pengagumnya, Rumi laksana matahari yang menyinari taman dan bumi. Namun, setiap orang dapat mengambil bagiannya dari air laut sesuai dengan takaran cangkirnya. To use one of his timeless metaphors,....the sun shines upon the garden as well as the mud. Yet everyone takes his share from the ocean as much as the size of his cup, Tahir Akyurek, 2017. Rumi:...if only the good ones come to your door, where would the unfortunate ones go?, Jika hanya yang baik mendatangimu, ke mana perginya si malang itu? Artinya dalam kehidupan ini, hal baik dan buruk akan silih berganti. Keberuntungan dan kemalangan juga akan datang silih berganti. Banyak pelajaran dan ilmu kehidupan yang dapat dipetik dari Rumi dan al-Matsnawinya. When the words of Rumi enter your heart, something softens, breaks, and is subtly reborn. That he wrote the words in Persian seven hundred years ago in a cultural context so very different from own makes their uncanny resonance to us today just that much more remarkable. Here is a treasury of all the sufi masters-- both his prose and his ecstatic poetry-- that you can use to start every day for a year, or that you can dip into for inspiration any time you need to break through the granite of your heart, ( Kabir and Camille Helminski). Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi.