ABSTRACT

To the English reader the mysticism of Rumi opens a new world of spiritual and poetical experience. "God is One but religions are many" runs the Sufi teaching; and the English reader can here enlarge his experience by apprehending the mystic intuition of a great Persian poet. The late author's beautiful and faithful translations are illuminated by Notes on Sufi doctrine and experience. The author did not finish the Introduction, but it has been completed by his old pupil and friend, Professor A. J. Arberry, who has seen the book through the press.

chapter I|1 pages

The Song of the Reed 1

chapter II|1 pages

Remembered Music 1

chapter III|2 pages

Love in Absence 1

chapter IV|1 pages

“The Marriage of True Minds” 1

chapter V|1 pages

“A Sleep and a Forgetting” 1

chapter VI|2 pages

The Grief of the Dead 1

chapter VII|1 pages

The Unregenerate 1

chapter VIII|1 pages

The Burden of Existence 1

chapter IX|1 pages

The Spirit of the Saints 1

chapter X|1 pages

The Children of Light 1

chapter XI|1 pages

Love, the Hierophant 1

chapter XII|1 pages

The Love of Woman 1

chapter XIII|1 pages

Divine Beauty 1

chapter XIV|1 pages

“I Turn Toward Thee” 1

chapter XV|1 pages

The Truth within Us 1

chapter XVI|1 pages

Mystics Know 1

chapter XVII|2 pages

Asleep to the World 1

chapter XVIII|1 pages

The Faithful are One Soul 1

chapter XIX|2 pages

The Ladder to Heaven 1

chapter XX|1 pages

The True Ṣūfī 1

chapter XXI|1 pages

Nothing Venture Nothing Win 1

chapter XXII|2 pages

The Man Who Looked Back on his Way to Hell 1

chapter XXIII|1 pages

Spiritual Churning 1

chapter XXIV|1 pages

The Blind Follower 1

chapter XXV|1 pages

The Birds of Solomon 1

chapter XXVI|1 pages

The Carnal Soul 1

chapter XXVII|2 pages

The Beauty of Death 1

chapter XXVIII|1 pages

A Prayer for Good Behaviour 1

chapter XXIX|1 pages

Communion with the Saints 1

chapter XXX|2 pages

The Man Who Fled from Azrael 1

chapter XXXI|1 pages

“Omnes Eodem Cogimur” 1

chapter XXXII|1 pages

Faith and Works 1

chapter XXXIII|1 pages

“No Monkery in Islam” 1

chapter XXXIV|1 pages

Do Not Travel Alone 1

chapter XXXV|1 pages

Fine Feathers 1

chapter XXXVI|1 pages

The Treasure-Seeker 1

chapter XXXVII|1 pages

The Mystic Way 1

chapter XXXVIII|1 pages

The Sceptic 1

chapter XXXIX|1 pages

The Evil in Ourselves 1

chapter XL|2 pages

The Hierarchy of Saints 1

chapter XLI|2 pages

The Spiritual Guide 1

chapter XLII|2 pages

The Uses of Tribulation 1

chapter XLIV|1 pages

Unseen Miracles 1

chapter XLV|1 pages

The Reward of the Righteous 1

chapter XLVI|1 pages

The Saint’s Vision of Eternity 1

chapter XLVII|1 pages

Beware of Hurting the Saint 1

chapter XLVIII|2 pages

The Disinterested Cadi 1

chapter XLIX|1 pages

Good Words 1

chapter L|1 pages

“Here Am I” 1

chapter LI|1 pages

The Soul of Prayer 1

chapter LII|2 pages

The Friend Who Said “I” 1

chapter LIII|1 pages

God Beyond Praise 1

chapter LIV|1 pages

Knowledge is Power 1

chapter LV|1 pages

Our Real Names 1

chapter LVI|1 pages

Immediate Knowledge 1

chapter LVII|1 pages

Tradition and Intuition 1

chapter LVIII|1 pages

Feeling and Thinking 1

chapter LIX|1 pages

Mystical Perception 1

chapter LX|1 pages

Love and Fear 1

chapter LXI|1 pages

The Ascending Soul 1

chapter LXII|2 pages

The Negative Way 1

chapter LXIII|1 pages

The Spirit of the Universe 1

chapter LXIV|2 pages

The Absolute 1

chapter LXV|2 pages

Fons Vitae 1

chapter LXVI|1 pages

The Purpose of Creation 1

chapter LXVII|2 pages

Divine Providence 1

chapter LXVIII|2 pages

Causation 1

chapter LXIX|1 pages

The Divine Factory 1

chapter LXX|1 pages

The World of Time 1

chapter LXXI|1 pages

Reality and Appearance 1

chapter LXXII|2 pages

God in Nature 1

chapter LXXIII|1 pages

Amor Agitat Molem 1

chapter LXXIV|2 pages

Universal Love 1

chapter LXXV|2 pages

Man the Macrocosm 1

chapter LXXVI|1 pages

The Perfect Man 1

chapter LXXVII|1 pages

The Witness to God 1

chapter LXXVIII|2 pages

The Mediator 1

chapter LXXIX|1 pages

Asceticism and Gnosis 1

chapter LXXX|2 pages

“Die Before Death” 1

chapter LXXXI|1 pages

Mystical Death and Burial 1

chapter LXXXII|2 pages

Unity of Spirit 1

chapter LXXXIII|2 pages

Creations of Phantasy 1

chapter LXXXIV|1 pages

The Magic of Love 1

chapter LXXXV|1 pages

Phenomena the Bridge to Reality 1

chapter LXXXVI|1 pages

The Pear-Tree of Illusion 1

chapter LXXXVII|1 pages

Cosmic Consciousness 1

chapter LXXXIX|1 pages

The Standard-Bearers of Divine Revelation 1

chapter XC|3 pages

The Mystery of Evil 1

chapter XCI|2 pages

The Law and the Truth 1

chapter XCII|1 pages

The Complete Artist 1

chapter XCIII|1 pages

The Necessary Foil 1

chapter XCIV|1 pages

The Relativity of Evil 1

chapter XCVI|1 pages

The Unseen Power 1

chapter XCVII|2 pages

Moral Responsibility 1

chapter XCVIII|1 pages

“Whatsoever God Wills Shall Come to Pass” 1

chapter XCIX|3 pages

Predestination and Freewill 1

chapter C|1 pages

The Wine of Love 1

chapter CI|1 pages

The Riddles of God 1

chapter CII|2 pages

The Apology of Iblls 1

chapter CIII|1 pages

Love and Logic 1

chapter CIV|1 pages

The One True Light 1

chapter CV|3 pages

The Twelve Gospels 1

chapter CVI|2 pages

The Shepherd’s Prayer 1

chapter CVII|1 pages

A Rebuke to Bigots 1

chapter CVIII|2 pages

Religious Controversy 1

chapter CIX|2 pages

The Doctrine of Reserve 1

chapter CX|1 pages

Unknowing 1

chapter CXI|1 pages

The Unitive State 1

chapter CXII|1 pages

The Life Everlasting 1

chapter CXIII|2 pages

Does Personality Survive? 1

chapter CXIV|2 pages

The Soul of the World 1

chapter CXV|1 pages

Deification 1

chapter CXVI|1 pages

The God-Man 1

chapter CXVII|1 pages

The Spiritual Ascension 1

chapter CXVIII|2 pages

The Progress of Man 1

chapter CXIX|2 pages

“Ripeness is All” 1