Rumi is one mystic poet who feels like a friend amidst the challenges of life and his words have healing powers in the times of darkness. In the age of materialism, consumerism, Rumi is a luminous antidote of all these modern distractions of human soul. He gives us a perspective and a world view which works as pure guidence in absence of everything. He reminds us to keep trying to find some meaning in life while it becomes too heavy to handle. He attracts our attention towards the world and compares it’s beauty with our soul, making us realize we are the miracle we have been searching for. He inspire us to give it a look at cosmos and pay attention about how it behaves, so we can find our relevance in relation with the cosmos, not in relation with our own small problems.
His lines comes to rescue human soul by forcing us to observe stars, galaxies, birds, night skies, deserts, wildflowers, love and hope. He enforces us to value the human life which is screaming to be heard and to be listened to. His ideas gives us reason to rethink everything we know. He tells us that maybe we are too busy in echo chambers of distractions that are making our heart and mind even more disturbed and occupied. He repeats us to take inspirations from the nature, majestic landscapes, meadow, mountains and forests. He encourages us to be lost in the images of natures, in the garden of flowers for few moments, so we can steal some energy and hope from them to redefine our purposes and ourselves in the times when we struggle to find our worth. In the times of hopelessness, Rumi is a friend who will never allow us to be drown in loneliness, rather he gives the idea to befriend these chaos and messy things as you never know what beauty might come out from it’s hidden layers. The idea is to befreind the nature and these stars, and cosmos so you have friend in abundance energy-wise. It often feels like the rays of hope comes alive when we observe the world through the eyes of Rumi.
Rumi gives us the perspective from which every soul can find beauty and positivity from, even in the biggest setbacks of their life. He reminds us about the reason to stay hopeful while there is absolutely no reason there. He tries us to see the blessings more, and try to grasp the positive side in every negative situation. He kind of advices us to leave everything that is destructive, chaotic and messy. Rumi on one side is a great religious man, a very practicing Muslim, but he also studies mathematics, philosophy, literature, and the language of Persian, Arabic and Turkish all of which that shaped his world view. This is why he is able to give us viewpoints from every angle that resonates with almost all the tribes of the world.
He is quite celebrated Moulana from his poetry, mysticism and religious thoughts. He is certainly the most loved Muslim in this age globally. His soulful lines penetrate deeper in all sects, all societies and all religions. He sticks to the basic nature of humans in his poetry, so he words touches everyone. The world that celebrates Rumi has just scratched the surface about his mystic wisdom, while 99 percent of his mystic and religious influence is yet to be explored, still he manages to make himself the most loved poet in the non-Muslim world. His popularity in the west is quite established even when his philosophy and his religious view’s are not in sync with actual poetry. Mostly youth fell in love with maulana and the reason for the admiration to Rumi is because his words tries the cleanse our impure hearts. Our soul that is filled with ego, a lust for dominion, narcissism, greed, materialism often gets a hard reality check when we read Rumi. He directly penetrates into deepest part of our heart to remind us we are not so beautiful from inside. We need to work on ourselves, we need to improve ourselves.
Having Rumi as your friend, suddenly life starts making sense in one way or another. This emptiness and the void in our hearts which often becomes the reason for depressions, gets a good dose of wisdom through Rumi. And one of the great advantage Rumi has that he is accessible to the common masses as he is to the scholars in real time. Having read Rumi makes you self-aware in a way you never were. He gives ourselves back to us. He turns us into a person who is open to improve ourselves from inside. He makes us more compassionate, relaxed, loving and selfless. He strengthens our Spiritual connection with God and with nature. He redefines our understanding of love, life, wealth, success, hope, nature, cosmos and god.
Love is the central theme in many of Rumi’s poetry. His deep spiritual connection with God makes him respect the value of love even more. For him love is aabeh-Hayat, the water of life and force of everything. He says love becomes the fire too that burns our ego. For him, Love is our ultimate HOME. It has capabilities to illuminate our blind eyes. Love is the driving force that makes us respect and endure other human beings. When we love God, we try to embrace his creation too. It is love that makes us compassionate otherwise humans are not so empathetic towards other creatures and towards fellow humans. He talks about human liberation through cultivation of love. When we love we empathize with others. It is love that makes us love the people who doesnt belong to our religion, our tribe and our region. Love is the connecting dot between us and everything else. Rumi is a dear freind of our soul who gives us new energy to fight all the challenges of our rough life.
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