Rumi: Soul Fury

They used music and poetry and movement. They sat in silence.

Franklin D. Lewis’ Rumi: Past and Present, East and West (One World, 2000)

Always awake, love never sleeps, 5

Maqalat-e Shams-e Tabrizi, edited by Mohhad-Ali Movahhed (Tehran: Salami, Entesharat-e Khwarwazmi, 1990).

Adapted from Michael D. Coogan, ed., Eastern Religions (London: Duncan Baird Publishers, 2005), 248.

149—This poem is by Rumi’s son, Sultan Velad, found in his Divan #335

The subject was to be some of these fragments from Shams’ Sayings (Maqalat

times and places. They very quickly make me bitter and mean.”

Wandering like planets . . .

I can imagine Shams saying, “It’s best that I avoid these