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    Love is a Stranger
    Love is a Stranger
    Love is a Stranger
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    Love is a Stranger

    By Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi and Kabir Helminski

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    "Love is a stranger and speaks a strange language," wrote Rumi, one of the world's most beloved mystical poets. His poems of spiritual love still speak directly to our hearts after more than seven hundred years. These classic selections contemplate separation and longing, intoxication and bliss, union and transcendence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShambhala
    Release dateOct 11, 2016
    ISBN9780834824751
    Love is a Stranger
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    Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

    Daniel Ladinsky’s books include A Year with Hafiz, I Heard God Laughing, The Subject Tonight Is Love, and The Gift, as well as a collection of translations of poems by twelve mystics and saints, Love Poems from God. He lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Nancy Owen Barton is a literary agent, educator, and movement therapist. She has collaborated with Ladinsky since the publication of his first Hafiz volume in 1996.

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    Love is a Stranger - Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

    Love Is a Stranger

    Selected Lyric Poetry of

    Jelaluddin Rumi

    Translated by Kabir Edmund Helminski

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    SHAMBHALA

    Boston & London

    2011

    SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS, INC.

    Horticultural Hall

    300 Massachusetts Avenue

    Boston, Massachusetts 02115

    www.shambhala.com

    © 1993 by Kabir Edmund Helminski

    Published by arrangement with Threshold Books

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana, 1207–1273

    [Selections. English. 2000]

    Love Is a Stranger: selected lyric poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi/

    translated by Kabir Edmund Helminski.

         p. cm.

    eISBN 978-0-8348-2475-1

    ISBN 978-1-57062-527-5 (pbk.)

    I. Sufi poetry, Persian—Translations into English.

    I. Helminski, Kabir Edmund 1947–

    II. Title.

    PK6480. E5 L68 2000

    89I’.55II—dc2I

    99-049893

    Contents

    Introduction

    The Ruby

    The Root of the Root of Your Self

    Love Is a Stranger

    A New Rule

    The Intellectual

    Didn’t I Say?

    On the Deathbed

    A House for the Naked

    Like Sunlight Upon the Earth

    A War Inside

    Buy Me From My Words

    What a Man Can Say

    This Marriage

    Clothes Abandoned on the Shore

    The Pull of Love

    Sweep the Dust off the Sea

    And He Is With Us

    You and I

    Search the Darkness

    The Ninth Month

    This Useless Heart

    Expansion and Contraction

    The Guest House

    The Ruins of the Heart

    Song of the Reed

    Love Is Reckless

    When a Man and a Woman Become One

    I Am Not ...

    When Names Did Not Exist

    To Take a Step Without Feet

    The Man of God

    A World With No Boundaries

    Be Lost in the Call

    The House of Love

    Elegy for Sana’i

    The Inner Garment of Love

    This Body Is a Rose

    Empty the Glass of Your Desire

    To Know the Moon and the Sea

    A Night for Departure

    The Color of Purity

    Words of ‘Ali

    The Grave Is a Veil

    That Which Has No Clue

    Appendix

    Sources of Translations

    Introduction

    More than fourteen years have passed since I began to translate some of Rúmí’s poetry. I could not have imagined where this path was taking me. What at first seemed a distant and exotic city in the distance, whose outline and features I was just beginning to differentiate, this city of Sufi verse, is now a more familiar place whose streets and alleys, whose grand architecture and precious details, I no longer view from afar but sense and feel as someone beginning to feel at home in a place. This world is as real and present to me as the outer world I live in, but even more so, for it is a world of meanings and not just things.

    Western culture has no convenient category for Mevlána Jeláluddin Rúmí. In the Islamic world he is held in the highest esteem not only as a literary figure, but as a saint whose personal example inspired the founding of a major religious order, and as a philosopher whose elaboration of the cosmic sense of Love has had a significant cultural impact.

    His literary genius is made clear in the 30,000 verses of impassioned lyric poetry in his Diván-i Shamsi Tabriz and in the 22,000 verses of his masterwork, the Mathnáwí, a vast tapestry into which has been woven Aesopian fables, scenes from the everyday life of his times, Qur’anic revelation, and Neoplatonic metaphysics. The great poet Abdur Rahmán Jámi called the Mathnáwí the Qur’an in the Persian tongue. Sa’di, another major poet, once selected an ode of Mevlána’s for presentation to the Moghul Khan as the best poem in the Persian language. In the West, Rúmí’s influence has been felt by Chaucer, Goethe, and Emerson, to name a few; and no less a critic than Doctor Johnson has said of him: He makes plain to the Pilgrim the secrets of the Way of Unity, and unveils the Mysteries of the Path of Eternal Truth.

    To many already familiar with his life and writings, Mevlána Jeláluddin Rúmí is something more than a poet.

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