Jalal Ud DIN Rumi

Ǧ alāl Al-Dīn Rūmī or Djalal ED-DIN Rûmi or Djalal-E-DIN Mohammad Molavi Rumi or Djalaleddine Roumi (in Turkish: ltr tr Mevlânâ Celaleddin-i Rumi, in Persan: jalāl-e-dīn rūmī, RTL F جلالالدینرومی; mūlānā jalāl-e-dīn moḥamad balḫī, RTL F مولاناجلالالدينمحمدبلخى, in Arab: jalāl AD-dīn muḥammad rūmī, rear RTL جلالالدينمحمدرومي) (Balkh, September 30th 1207 - Konya, December 17th 1273) is a mystical Persan which deeply influenced the Soufisme. The majority of its writings were inspired to him by his/her best friend, Shams ED-DIN Tabrizi, which was originating in Tabriz, from where Tabrizi .

Rûmi flees with its family in front of Mongolian cataclysm of 1220 - 1222 in Central Asia and settles with Konya, capital of the Seldjoukides of Roum (old territories " romains" , i.e. Byzantine, in Anatolia), of or its nickname of Roumi (Roman, Byzantine, Anatolian).

There exists a half-dozen of transcriptions of the first name Djalal-el-dines, “majesty of the religion” (on djalal , majesty, and dines , religion, memory, worship). Shams ED-DIN can be translated by “sun of the religion”.

Rûmi also took again on its account the fables of Ésope in its principal work the " Masnavi" (" Mathnawî" , " Mesnevi"), that the Fountain will retranslate partially in its French turn. The Turks and the Iran iens of today continue to like its poems. Recognized of alive sound like a saint, Djalaleddine Roumi had rather revolutionary standpoint compared to the political powers and to the Moslem dogma. He liked to attend the Christians and the Jews very as much as his brothers in religion.

It was called also Molâna (Turkish Mevlana delivery), “our Master”. Its name is closely related to the order of the “Dancing dervishes” or mevlevis , one of the principal mystical brotherhood of the Islam, which it founded in the town of Konya in Turkey.

UNESCO proclaimed the year 2007 year in its honor for the birthday of 8th century of its birth. Thus, at September 30th was organized with Konya festivities in its honor, with the participation of the Dancing dervishes.

Works translated into French

mystical Odes , extracted the Couch-E Shams-e Tabrîz , dedicated to its Shams Master.
the book of the inside ( Fîhi-mâ-fihî ), collection of matter of the mystic by his oldest son, Walad Sultan.
Mathnawî , moral, allegorical poem and mystic of more than forty thousand worms. (trad.de Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch).
Rubâi' yât , collection of quatrains on the mystical experiment.
Mesnevi , collection of tales soufis (it is acted in fact of a summary of the Mathnawi ).
Sun of Reality, Poems of mystic love , translated the Persan one by Christian JAMBET, HMSO, 1999.

Some worms of Rumi

Bird of the celestial garden

I am a bird of the celestial garden,

I am not from here, of this terrestrial world

One made me a cage of this mortal body

So that in the cage a few days I remain

Quotations

“the truth is a mirror fallen with the hand of God and who broke. Each one collects a fragment of it and known as that all the truth is”
there “It is a sun hidden in an atom: suddenly, this atom opens the mouth. The skies and the ground are exhausted in dust in front of this sun when it emerges from the ambush”
“Your task is not to seek the love, but simply to seek and find all the obstacles which you built against the love”
“I were snow, you me subsidence. The ground drank me; fog of spirit, I go up towards the sun…”
“When it from goes away towards the ocean to the research of the pearl, it is itself beads, and even a single pearl. ”
“What is alive, make die it: it is your corps.

What died, it vivifies: it is your cœur.
What is present, it hides: it is the world of ici-bas.
What is absent, make come it: it is the world of the life future.
What exists: destroyed it: it is the passion.
What does not exist, produce it: it is the intention. ”

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