Ultimatley the message in this poem is self consciousness, to be enlightended and live in the present; "We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter."
If you defer to poems written by Rumi you will see that he practiced Sufism which is a philosophy or "a science through which one can know how to travel into the presence of the Divine, purify one’s inner self from filth, and beautify it with a variety of praiseworthy traits." The Divine meaning our Source; ONE GOD. This philosophy originated from Islam; however, nowadays many Muslims consider Sufism outside the sphere of Islam...
God lives in every one of us and to find Him, one must look inside himself; purify yourself, see the goodness in you...Nobody was born with the evil in them; hate, envy, jelousy, anything evil is not natural, they are lingering spirits...demons...think with your heart, purify it get rid of the ego..this takes lots of practice and conditioning...some books you can read to understand the meaning of this poem are "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle...or any book by Rumi, his poems are magnificient...also, any other scholar/philosopher that he mentions in this poem...do your research and you will understand. :)
I would translate this poem line by line...but it will take awhile; dictionary.com and wikipedia and good research tools. :)
Ultimatley the message in this poem is self consciousness, to be enlightended and live in the present; "We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter."
If you defer to poems written by Rumi you will see that he practiced Sufism which is a philosophy or "a science through which one can know how to travel into the presence of the Divine, purify one’s inner self from filth, and beautify it with a variety of praiseworthy traits." The Divine meaning our Source; ONE GOD. This philosophy originated from Islam; however, nowadays many Muslims consider Sufism outside the sphere of Islam...
God lives in every one of us and to find Him, one must look inside himself; purify yourself, see the goodness in you...Nobody was born with the evil in them; hate, envy, jelousy, anything evil is not natural, they are lingering spirits...demons...think with your heart, purify it get rid of the ego..this takes lots of practice and conditioning...some books you can read to understand the meaning of this poem are "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle...or any book by Rumi, his poems are magnificient...also, any other scholar/philosopher that he mentions in this poem...do your research and you will understand. :)
I would translate this poem line by line...but it will take awhile; dictionary.com and wikipedia and good research tools. :)
If you look for God within yourself, then you are likely to mistake yourself for God.
If you look for God within yourself, then you are likely to mistake yourself for God.
Wow, that's a very powerful statement predicatedprophet. I'm an Atheist, so I somewhat disagree, but that's very profound nonetheless.
Wow, that's a very powerful statement predicatedprophet. I'm an Atheist, so I somewhat disagree, but that's very profound nonetheless.