Masnavi Book Two

Name: Masnavi Book Two
Brand: Oxford University Press
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Rumi Jalal Al-Din(Autor*in)

Oxford University Press

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Erschienen am 10. Juli 2008

292 Seiten

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Intro
Contents
Introduction
Note on the Translation
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Rumi
THE MASNAVI: BOOK TWO
Prose Introduction
Exordium
Identifying the new moon too soon
God mercifully ignores some prayers
Jesus's companion's foolish request
The false servant who would say, 'God give me strength!'
A king finds his falcon with a decrepit old crone
Shaikh Ahmad Khezruya and his sceptical creditors
The ascetic's view of his weeping eyes
Blindly expecting a lion to be an ox
The Sufis chanted, 'The ass has gone! The ass has gone!'
The devilish bankrupt and the dull-witted Kurd
The folly of thinking, 'If only . . .'
To murder the mother of all problems
A king tests two contrasting slaves
Envy of a king's favourite slave
A falcon among the owls
A thirsty man loves the splash of bricks in water
The thorn-bush planted in the middle of the road
Zo'l-Nun's disciples visit him at the madhouse
Loqman's master's test for him
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
The philosopher's rejection of a Qur'anic verse
Moses and the shepherd
Moses asks God why oppressors seem to win
The cure for a man who has swallowed a snake
The foolhardy man who trusted a bear's good intentions
The beggar's two types of blindness
Moses and the worshippers of the golden calf
Galen's anxiety over a madman's admiration
Why a bird flew with those of a different feather
The Prophet visits his sick Companion
God asks Moses, 'Why didn't you visit me when I was sick?'
The gardener who tricked the Sufi, the Sayyed, and the jurist
A master tells Bayazid to circle around him instead of the Kaaba
Why Dalqak chose to marry a whore
The master who pretended to be mad
Satan wakes up Mo'aviya so he can join the congregation for the dawn prayer
The reluctant Judge
The advantage of arriving late for prayer
Unhelpful advice about a burglar
The hypocrites who built the Mosque of Opposition to the Prophet
A man's search for his lost camel
The four Indians who spoilt their own prayers by finding fault with each other
How Ghuzz Turks make an example out of their victims
Self-conceit leads to ingratitude for prophets and saints
The physician's diagnosis for an old man
Johi's interpretation of a child's lament
The boy who was terrified of what a huge man wanted to do to him
The archer and the mounted warrior
The Bedouin and the philosopher
The miracles of Ebrahim-e Adham by the ocean
How divine light is bestowed on a mystic
False suspicions about a shaikh
Aisha complains to the Prophet about his performing the prayer in dirty places
The camel and the mouse
The miracles of the dervish accused of stealing
Some Sufis complain to their master about a fellow Sufi talking too much
Self-evident truths
John the Baptist bows to Jesus in Mary's womb
The folly of literalism
The tree which gives eternal life
Four men fight because they use different words for 'grapes'
The Prophet as arbitrator
Ducklings nurtured by a domestic bird
Reactions to the miracles of an ascetic in the desert
Explanatory Notes
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