Dr. Omid Safi - How to Read Rumi: The GPS of Divine Secrets
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Rumi's poetry is widely considered one of the great masterpieces of Islamic literatures, and Rumi is now the best-selling poet in America. This talk will serve as a deep introduction to Rumi's masterpiece, by taking the audience inside the main teachings and structure of the Masnavi. No background or language is necessary.
Biography:
Dr. Omid Safi is a leading public Muslim intellectual in America. He is a Professor of Islamic Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in contemporary Islamic thought and classical Islam. He is the past Chair for the Study of Islam and the current Chair for the Islamic Mysticism Group at the American Academy of Religion, the largest international organization devoted to the academic study of religion.
Omid is an award-winning teacher and speaker, and was nominated six times at Colgate University for the "Professor of the Year" award, and before that twice at Duke University for the Distinguished Lecturer award. At the University of North Carolina, he received the award for mentoring minority students in 2009, and the Sitterson Teaching Award for Professor of the Year in April of 2010.
He is the editor of the volume Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2003). His work Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam, dealing with medieval Islamic history and politics, was published by UNC Press in 2006. His Voices of Islam: Voices of Change, was published by Praeger in 2006. His last book was published by HarperCollins, titled Memories of Muhammad, and deals with the biography and legacy of the Prophet Muhammad. He has a forthcoming volume from Princeton University Press on the famed mystic Rumi. The Carnegie Foundation recognized Omid as a leading Scholar of Islam in 2007-2008 for studying contemporary Islamic debates in Iran. That topic will be the topic of his next book from Harvard University Press. His volume on American Islam is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
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This talk is not only informative and presented with humour at times but also given relevance to today and everyday life. It kept my total attention every minute and I sent it to a few friends. Dr Safi shows a wide understanding and experience of different cultures and religions. He creates bridges instead of barriers and division. THANK YOU!
AN EXCELLENT talk and I am Christian but a seeker of Truth rather than a particular religion, so I LOVED this! I learnt so much not only about Islam but about the Bible because many things he says relate equally to the Bible. It is great to realise that we have so much of our core beliefs and understanding in common. Dr Safi is also a great presenter!
I wanted to press a hundred likes, unfortunately UA-cam allows only one.
Basic of RUMI Poetry is Love...Love & Love for all Humanity. Love is inner side of heart and when we control on our nafs then we reach on real peace in all over the world.
Asa.
Mash- Allah. Wonderful information thanks 🙏 so SOOOOOO much appreciate it.
We all AFGHNSTAN love you very much. You are always amazing. Much love 💕 from sultany families Best wishes to for ever with everything INSHALLAH
may Allah kareem gives teachers like him to every human.
safi is a great sufi scholar and a most delightful and articulate speaker with great arabic as well as high level Englishman
He can’t speak persian ?
When you see a person
who is often silent
and avoids people,
try to stay close to him,
because he has been given wisdom.
💚
Mevlânâ Celâleddin-i Rûmî
Please dont argue...
Just know and feel
Feel and know
The sickness in one's ❤ has to do with the state of ignorance "our" separation from the One puts us in.
This is my 2nd time listening to this talk and each time, I find deeper connection and so many new perspectives open up to me. Many thanks to teachers such Omid Safi. I would love to join him for the 2 week tour. Insha Allah
Rumi is nothing but everything listen to his words with your heart
Rumi said you are not small you are the universe.He is a Sufi aulya but he never said his alone greater then another.Dear brothers and sisters Rumi explains himself and from that himself he explains what you are, his great but everyone is the same.
Ma Sa Allah. Stay blessed. Thanks.
"Love conquers all ,So everytime choose Love and be the love "
This is brilliant.
If you have read Rumi there can be no questions.
That's why we have masnawi to get the answers of questions we never asked ourselves.
If you have questions in your mind or if you are not satisfied then you read it wrong.
People with closed heart finds the teachings of Rumi confusing its a treasure for the open heart.
mashallah
i m from bangladesh
respect
Oh my devine passion, lead me to my innate poet within.
Really interesting and informative. Plus Professor Safi makes his lecture light and easy to follow.
Found this today loved it 🙏🏻
A little reading of Mevlana every week will keep you from worrying about the world 🌎
Yes, Right. But as an Iranian I say: we have an important point to keep in mind:
Rumi has nothing to do with Islam, his possibly positive outlook is for everything,
because he is a lover, it comes from his deep understanding and astonishment and longing for Existence=God
The literate liars are plundering Rumi's Love and goodness for the name of Islam and to showing a good face of Muhammad, the liar, killer, philander and pedophile prophet.
and to pretend that Islam is not an anti-human rights and anti-feminist religion,
While it is. Islam has many of these rudimentary laws such as the enslavement and the slaughter of people and opposed to dissent, etc.
You ask; why they do not talk about the Quran and Islam itself, which is Extremely intolerable.
They are just modern Mullahs who hide behind good words and eternal human beings like Rumi, to lie and steal forever which is their permanent job.
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You should also keep in mind who he was a lover of!
Molana is Truth and Truth is healing power. 🌴
EXCELLENT!!
I love this qualty topic and conversation.
I´m now at Minute 20:00 and it´s beautiful! Thank you so much for inspiring me!
I loved it..
Wow he is so so so right I love u man. U r the nly guy thats made sense of my thoughts
Fantastic insight ,brilliant !
One creation, one creator.
Wow wow wow! What a love-filled presentation. SubhanAllah. The Dr. has been blessed with in-depth knowledge of the path to the 1 Creator of all. Thank you very much for sharing this. May Allah (swt) reward the speaker and all those who supported this effort. Amine
simply edifying
THANK YOU DR. SAFI🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
THANK YOU DR. SADI🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
Very precious , thank you sir 🙏🏾
Brilliant lecture and enlightening.
beautiful!!!
you are still stuck in "Mine". you think Maulana's birth place is not current Afghanistan. In spite of your knowledge you miss the spirit of his teaching. how sad!
Thanks young man for useful info
Of course, you like others or me would read whatever you like to read and your choices are deeply respected. It all depends what we're looking for. If we're looking for core of Human's divine nature or issues of this kind, Rumi is an excellent source. Since he talks about simple Truth and Truth is timeless and evergreen that is why it seems that he is talking with us here and now.
a real gift
Thank you .
Presence, hijab,truth,artificialities of 'mine' , oneness of humanity, ignoring the external form, symbol of love coming through angels, the inner jihad, the interpretation of hell and heaven oh! The list is endless in presenting the mevlana's masnavi. Professor safi you are a great celebration to islam . Like to keep in touch with you. You are an asset in preventing the demonizing of Islam sir. Masnavi enables the pearl within the oyster Afreeha Jawad journalist from Sri Lanka . I recently wrote an article to the sundaytimes on Theravada Budhism and sufistic Islam. Available in archives
Great job
According to Rumi (جان گشاید سوی بالا بالها در زده تن بر زمین چنگالها). Human has a soul and ego. The soul is an essence of the sacred world, belongs to God, the ego is an essence of the earth or soil. Therefore Mawlana says the soul has opened his wings towards heaven, and the ego has attached its claws to the earth. This attraction is the love which can be spiritual or egoistic.
Enlighten
But I liked the rest of your stories.... thank you 😊
Thanks
God is Great
You my friend are a master orator... and TY for this presentation
They say that if you start to see everything as you and you as everything, there is no place for other forces that could corrupt this view. There is no place for religion or contradicting beliefs, as the the truth is one and whole (because there can be only one truth, not many). I think this is the message Sufis and Kabbalists are trying to convey to us, so we can accept people as they are and find ourselves….
Thank you for good explanation with detail meaning. Rumi_ Maulana Bulkhi from Afghanistan born in Afghanistan should be credited correctly.
Afghanistan and Persia was one country at that time. There did not exist Afghanistan as a country yet.
Afghanistan ? There were no Afghanistan in those days .
The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from pleasure (I loved that meal) to interpersonal attraction (I love my partner). It can refer to an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment. It can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another and it may describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals
The kind of love for the creation and the Creator is very different and changes that person forever.
It lifts the veil that Rumi said.
correction of quoran translation: "enter my/with my servants and enter my heaven" reads instead "enter my/with my worshippers and enter my heaven"
As much as I admire free verse translations of Rumi, I would also love to read a translation in the original Rubaiyat rhyming format.
29:50 : “Hubbul wathan minal iman” [The love of your home land is a part of faith] is not a prophetic hadist, but comes from Nahdlatul Ulama [Islamic Organization in Indonesia] founder K.H. [Syaikh Akbar] Hasyim As’ary.
Dear Dr. Omid
lover of books and Mīān Muhammad Bakhsh was a Sufi saint and a Punjabi Hindko poet. He belonged to the Qadri tariqah. He is especially renowned as the author of a book of poetry called Saif-ul-Malūk
SO...SO BEAUTIFUL!!!...A.... WONDERFUL EXPLAINATION!!!...
INDEED!!!...{ABOUT RUMI!!!}...BUT
ALSO RELATING TO PEOPLE WHO WE KNOW!!!...{AS EXAMPLES!!!}
IT IS... TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO LIVE... {A COMPLETE}...
{MEANINGFUL LIFE!!!... RUMI....
USES HIS UNIQUE POETRY!!! AND...THIS
PROFESSOR!!!...MAKES... THE... UNDERSTANDINGS EASIER?... FOR US!!!...{BUT POETRY IS SO} {BEAUTIFUL!!! {IN OUR TROUBLED}
{TIMES}...{THANKS FOR YOUR}...
{SIMPLE METHODS!!! OF MAKING} {THINGS CLEAR!!!...THANK YOU!!!
anyone have a copy of the handout from this lecture?
Salem aleikum
Very beautifully explained. Thank you.
A few remarks I’d like to add.
The usul/roots/branches I read/understand more like a fractal. Al Hallay (the doxa/illusion/dream) could refer to something like a 3-dimensional Mandelbrot set. The beloved I think has actually two meanings (please correct me if I am wrong) depending on how you vocalize it: al-ashk or al-ishk. Ashk would be Love (maybe this is also related to the name of Ashkenazi Jews) and ishk is the Light - in an understanding as Jesus also used it as truth(al Hak)/enlightenment - as these are not separable.
I’m pretty sure the “unity” does involve more than you mention. It’s about the unity of entire mankind! Wahdad al Wujud, al Wahdad mutlaqa! Wujud / Body/Corps / Corpus Christi... It must be understood as “Incorporation”. This is what many Christians get wrong when they think they “eat the flesh of Christ..” (eeeuw!) they mean eating the fruit/gain of the divine (In-)Corporation.
The Kingdom of God is in you. And it is outside of you. We have to make the outside like the inside and the inside like the outside. The Divine Equilibrium.
Interestingly, while I write this, it reminds me on the Dune saga (Dune+Jah = Dunya?). Paul Atreides calls himself Usul (within the Fremen - or Free Men) and Muad-dib officially, who leads the Jihad and leads mankind to true freedom. Would somebody understand and translate what Muad-deeb migjt mean? Frank Herbert usually used terms/names that have a deeper meaning.
“Father! The Sleeper has Awakened!” :))
By the way.. The plural of Sophos (greek: wisdom) is Sophoi - or Sufi! ;)
Philosophy means Loving Sufi. (Or at least I like to think of it this way.)
And please please don’t use Jihad synonymously with war, as the crusades were. It means every action, every effort towards the common purpose (“la cosa nostra”): peace on earth and freedom for all humans.
So rude of you to say 'ewee' about another religion. You can make your point across without sounding like a narcissist. Smh
@@12nakedtruth Transsubstanciation is a catholic thing and Catholisizm is not a religion. It's a scam, using Christian religion to abuse believers in Christ.
Why do some academics try to make you understand it their way? Mevlana's words are to be felt by the Heart. Peace be with us all.
And words can be misconstrued and misinterpreted beyond its meaning. Words should be looked at with wisdom. Rumi was an Islamic theologian and scholar.
23.24 thank u so much
angels long to look in to these things.... he is known to simple- not known to the learned.... the intellect, the cleverness, the ring - what has to be given up to be intimate with G-d... but it DOES get you to the threshold!
It is very hard to read it and underestand it ! !
In Arabic philosophy it's referred to "AL ANAA" which means the self, the ego
this is going to sound incredibly ignorant and it probably is, how to understand Rumi? mmm how to understand poetry, it's not about understanding, it's about becoming, becoming the emotion, the humanness of the writer, understanding the reverence of life and our relationship to the universal, our connectedness to all that is, both physical form and none physical...we're the expression of life itself just as the word is in the moment of receptivity of the universal stream running through the mind at that moment! However with that said, I'm going to honour this scholar by taking the time to listen to what he has to say at whicjh point my perspective will probably change hahaha...love is king!
i stop at 8:31mints while watching the video, please ready and review book close to same in Pakistan sufi mian mohammed bakash the reading and contact are same as Rumi poetry divine love of regulation
I love what you teach and the way you teach. You make sophisticated and complicated Sufism and Islamic philosophy simple and easy to understand for everyone. Thank you!
The word Rumi is the Quniyat or pen name of Maulana Jallaluddin, Rumi in Arabic or Urdu sense means Romantic.
Roman. That region was the Byzantium at the time, before it was invaded by Turcic tribes.
It rather means "one from rome" in a broader sense.
Dr omid safi
See Rumi Yoga and Sacred balance on youtube. namaste
You wouldn't if you are a prejudice hater , or if you don't understand being passionate
Beautiful lecture. Really well presented.
2:40 talk starts
In response to Rostam Sohrab:
Mr. Rostam Sohrab orshould I say Mr. know-it-all!
He didn't get into the etymology of the word, Mathnavi; it does mean he didn't know it. Secondly, his definition of the word
" Mathnavi " is accurate; the two lines of a couplet rhyme an have the same meter, which is characteristic of Rumi's Mathnavi..
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Nafs is Ahamkara-Mamakara in Sanskrit.
interesting.
Allah Karim Pakistan ki hafazat farmain aap ko jazay Khair atta farmain apnay hifzo amman main rakhayn aameen summa aameen
47:30 "if that's the heaven that you want..."
Although people like Mr Safi often imply that they're too good for it, neither the signs of the "anfus" nor those of the "afaq" can become manifest without the bodily senses and the pleasures they give.
I always wonder what those people think about the fact that the bodily pleasures of heaven are described in Quran frequently and in detail. Are these verses only for the laity or what?
Most people do not understand anything that is not physical, especially at that time when the average ppl were illiterate and superstitious. Getting ppl to be good for goodness sake doesn't work well, fear of hell at least keeps ppl more humane.
In order to have physical pain you need to have a living body. When you die you leave your physical body behind.
You cant read Rumi but you have to discover Rumi
where is Omid from? my last name is also SAFI and am Iranian. just curious
Zaye nist iranie?
I thought Syams was Mevlana's Friend
Good lecture except for a few unnecessary digs here and there. We all have flashes of ego that escape every day, lol. Much love x
What digs?
most people have an exoteric understanding ,some people have an esoteric realisation
I really dont think he would of called himself or would allowed people to call him mevlana cause I am sure he was fully aware of that one of the 99 names of Allah is Mevla which is in the quran so rumi or celladdin rumi would be the right way to calling this respectful genious islamic scholar
also of course native persian speaker
nafs is ego ( 16:40 )
me me me me me!!!!
Mine mine and mine!!!!!!
Yeah
Ego = I
Last night 14th Jan 2020 I finished the novel 40 Rules of Love by my dearest novelist Elif Shafak.
Hence my revisit to this site actually by Allah Design or by dare I say surrendipity.
Actually not by surrendipity.It is designed by Allah.
Forty rules of Love was also my first book... 4 years ago... Now I am gonna finish 6th book of mathnawi... It was such a journey... And I havent started yet the Journey... This is the beauty...
Please read the story of maulana rumi's life. He was a big islamic schaolar having sharia ilm. and suddenly SHAMS TABREZ R.A ( he was also Muslim saint from muslim sufi chain like Hazrat Abdul Qadir Jialani (Iraq) r.a & Nizamuddin aulia (India) r.a etc) meet him and changed his life. If you study deeply his Books you will find every where he loving and calling his Murshid (master) Shams Tabrez r.a.
as regard as Rumi says many where in his poetry "He does not belong to any religion' actually he was at stage of 'FANAH FILLAH' a particular ISLAMIC SUFISM STAGE where person perished (fana) himself in the GOD and after FANA the person comes completely into control of god and every act & voice t of such person is called god's act & voice. There are so many popular stories of Muslim saints (specially Indian Muslim Sufi like Mansoor Hallaj(India) & Baba Bhulley Shah Pakistan). It is very famous story that mansoor halaj r.a. said 'ANAL HAQ' (I am God) and ignorant peoples hanged & kill him But all other sufi saints (specially Allama Iqbal) appreciated Mansoor for his achievements of divine supremacy & approximation.
If u understands the term FANAFILLAH u will definitely understand that Rumi himself was not saying that “I have no religion”. Actually god says that’ I have no religion’ and Rumi is just passing the words of God. It is fact that God has no religion for him to survive and yes human’s needs religion to find God and without religion there is no way to find truth. God sent Prophets & saints toward humanity giving them one religion the only 1 religion from Prophet Adam (PBUH) to Prophet Muhammad (saw). But unfortunately 1 one religion is broken into pieces by bad peoples according to their own desires.
(if you ignore the term of FANAFILLA even you know that more poets writes poems on behalf of other persons like Hazrat Allama Iqbal wrote the poem “Jawab e Skikwa’ as word of God or on behalf of God.)
He was a mullah at the beginning, but left the establishment and created a sect.
Mowlana was from Balkh Afghanistan not Iran. and calling his language Persian is wrong it's actually Farsi
Understand romi you must be romi this is centrle of law always
Why would he ridicule spirituality compared to religion? Considering the devastation brought to us by religion, seems backwards.
In fact Rumi was a mullah who went against the religious establishment and created a sect.
sir why are you calling meesum rumi
God is all-powerful. What makes people believe no one can see him? For I have seen God.
Gospel of Timothy and the #Timothean Religion
#GoTimothy
I love it when people think they're ethnicity makes them feel like they understand Rumi more than others.😉
This guy has a kind of smug arrogance and his public speaking skills are lacking...
Religion makes people arrogant. Rumi was a mullah who went against the religious establishment of the time.
Rumi was a Soufi Mystic (non religious) and everywhere he is refered to Islam!!? Himself wrote, I read Quoran, chewed, removed its bones and made Persian Quoran- Masnavi. If himself was in this world, he would jump into his grave to hide himself, from what this world made out of his masterpiece. Himself was against Intellectualisation, once he met Shams, all his poetry is Love - Heart not Intellect.
Let us honor this divine soul, came free and left free without attachment to anything.
Gotta be careful with the translations...
"MINE!!!" hahahaha
25:52
41:58
Nafs, can be translated into ego
Do not bring your God to the session? Attagfillura!! Absolute love is come from seeing the absolute truth in the soul. You can't separated love from God.
Love is not exact word .
Love @ to anything.
But,
Ishq(extreme love / peak of love)@ to one (creator)