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A number of men touch and feel the elephant in the dark and, depending upon where they touch it, they believe the elephant to be like a water spout (trunk), a fan (ear), a pillar (leg) and a throne (back). Rumi uses this story as an example of the limits of individual perception: The sensual eye is just like the palm of the hand.
The Elephant in the dark house; Noah and Canaan; Infidelity and Predestination; The Barber and the Man with grizzled hair; The answer of Zayd to his assailant; The Companions of the Prophet and the Qur’án; The Lover who read a love-letter in the presence of his Beloved; The Poor Man who prayed that he might gain a lawful livelihood without work
The blind men and an elephant is a fable that originated in the Indian subcontinent from where it has widely diffused. It is a story of a group of blind men (or men in the dark) who touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each one feels a different part, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk.
The Masnavi, or Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi (Persian: مثنوی معنوی, DMG: Mas̲navī-e maʻnavī), also written Mathnawi, or Mathnavi, is an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, also known as Rumi. It is a series of six books of poetry that together amount to around 25,000 verses or 50,000 lines.
Afzal Iqbal, The Life and thought of Mohammad Jalal-ud-Din Rumi, Lahore: Bazm-i-Iqbal, 1959 (latest edition, The life and work of Jalal-ud-Din Rumi, Kuala Lumpur: The Other Press, 2014). Endorsed by the famous Rumi scholar A. J. Arberry, who penned the foreword. Abdol Reza Arasteh, Rumi the Persian: Rebirth in Creativity and Love, Lahore
Therefore, most of the poems probably date from around 1247 C.E. and the years that followed until Rumi had overcome his grief over the loss of Shams. [22] Another seventy poems in the Divan were written after Rumi had confirmed that Shams was dead. [22] Rumi dedicated these poems to his friend Salah al-Din Zarkub, who died in December 1258. [22]
Luka Dončić of the Dallas Mavericks pleads with officials in the third quarter against the Boston Celtics in Game 3 of the 2024 NBA Finals at American Airlines Center on June 12, 2024, in Dallas.
The tales, anecdotes and narratives in this collection are used in Sufi schools for the development of insights beyond ordinary perceptions. Although the number 100 is used in the title, in Idries Shah’s presentation there are 159 tales beginning with a brief description of Rumi’s childhood and youth.