Tales from Masnavi

From Tales from Masnavi, Jalal al-Din Rumi
translated by A.J. Arberry

Content
Introduction
1-The Lament of the Reed Flute
9-The grammarian and the boatman
12-The man who said, 'It is I'
21-Omar and the man
22-The man who stole a snake
25-The king and his falcon, on penitence
42-The blind beggar
44-Galen and the madman
45-A story of Moses
48-The man who married a harlot
56-The old man and the doctor
60-The miracle of the wine
61-The mouse and the camel
65-The prayer that was answered
67-The Jackal that pretended to be a peacock
71-The Elephant in the dark
73-The striker and the stricken

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The true Sufi, a poem by Rumi

The True Sufi

What makes the Sufi? Purity of heart;
Not the patched mantle and the lust perverse
Of those vile earth-bound men who steal his name.
He in all dregs discerns the essence pure:
In hardship ease, in tribulation joy.
The phantom sentries, who with batons drawn
Guard Beauty's place-gate and curtained bower,
Give way before him, unafraid he passes,
And showing the King's arrow, enters in.

R. A. Nicholson

'Persian Poems', an Anthology of verse translations
edited by A.J.Arberry, Everyman's Library, 1972

More poems by Jalalluddin Rumi were collected at http://www.armory.com/~thrace/sufi/poems.html

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