Post by Afzal A. KhanPost by NaseerBohut bohut shukria Naseer Sahib. maine abhi RMIM group main >Afzal saihb say pehli verse ke maaine pooche . Aur is group >main aapne mere request poori kar dee.
You are welcome, Prem Joshi jii. I am not 100% certain about the first
word in the fourth line. Perhaps Afzal Sahib might be able to give his
views. Also I have a feeling it should be Shams-i-Tabrez. This is the
name which Rumi adopted in his Persian poetry. Again, I'd like to have
further views on this.
maaliku_lmulk laa shareeka lahuu
waHdahu laa ilaaha illaa huu
Shams-i- (?) Tabrez gar Khudaa talabii
khusbookhaaN (?) laa ilaaha illaa huu
Khair-andesh,
Naseer
Naseer Saheb,
Your sentence above ("This is the name which Rumi adopted....")
can lead to an erroneous impression that Shams was perhaps the
poetic name or taKHallus of Maulana Jalal-ud-Din Rumi. To dispel
such an erroneous impression, let me add that these two were
different individuals.
Tabriz is an ancient city in northern Iran. Its present popula-
tion is around 15 lakhs. It is a great centre of art, learning
and also industries.
Hazrat Shams was a mystic "darvesh" hailing from this town. His
period is the 13th century A.D. Maulana Rumi (1207-1273) was a
contemporary of Hazrat Shams. It is said that they met each
other around 1244. And, immediately, a bond of spiritual commu-
nion developed. Rumi saw Shams as his spiritual Master and
became his disciple. So much so that much of Rumi's poetry ends
with verses heralding the Sufi saint as his spiritual Master. A
feeling of utter devotion permeates Rumi's poetry, so much so that
his Deewaan has come to be known as Deewaan-e-Shams-e-Tabrizi.
But it is Maulana Jalal-ud-Din Rumi who is the poet here, not
Hazrat Shams. The latter used to disappear from time to time,
and (ultimately) he disappeared for the last time in 1248, never
to be found again. There are a couple of places where his "grave"
is said to be located, but there is no certainty about it.
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