The Mathnawi of Jalalu?ddin Rumi

Name: The Mathnawi of Jalalu?ddin Rumi | Volume 4, English Text
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Volume 4, English Text

Reynold A. Nicholson(Author)

Gibb Memorial Trust (Publisher)

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Published on 30. June 2012

507 pages

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Cover
Title
Copyright
Introduction
Table of Contents
Book III
Preface (in prose)
Proem
The Travellers who ate the young Elephant
Bilál's mispronunciation in chanting the call to prayer
Moses instructed by God how he should pray
The response to sincere prayer
The Countryman and the Townsman
The people of Sabá and the Prophets
How Jesus came forth from his cell and healed the sick
The Falcon and the Ducks
The people of Zarwán
Majnún and Laylá's dog
The Jackal that fell into the dyeing-vat and pretended to be a Peacock
The Braggart who pretended that he had dined well
Bal'am the son of Bá'úr
And thou wilt surely know them in the perversion of their speech
Hárút and Márút
Pharaoh's dream of the coming of Moses
The Mughal and the Egyptians
The conception and birth of Moses
The Snake-catcher and the frozen Snake
Pharaoh and Moses
The two Magicians who summoned their father from the grave
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
Knowledge and Opinion
The Teacher who fancied he was ill
The Dervish who broke his vow
The far-seeing Goldsmith
The Magicians whom Pharaoh threatened to punish
The complaint of the Mule to the Camel
The Ass of 'Uzayr
The Shaykh who showed no grief at the death of his sons
The Blind Man who regained his sight when he read the Qur'án
The patience of Luqmán
Buhlúl and the Dervish
The Visions and Miracles of Daqúqi
Moses and Khizr
The flight of Jesus from the Fool
The Children's Tale of the Three Worldlings
The Hares and the Elephant
Noah and the building of the Ark
The Thief who said he was beating a Drum
The meaning of Prudence
The Vow made by the Dogs every winter
The Divine Providence manifested in the creation of Hell
Kings compared to the Báb-i Saghir at Jerusalem
The Súfi who fell into ecstasy on seeing an empty food-wallet
Jacob's love for Joseph
The Amir and the Slave who took delight in the ritual Prayer
The Faith of the Worldly
Hidden Saints
Anas and the Prophet's napkin
How the Prophet saved a caravan of Arabs from death in the Desert
Miracles wrought by the Prophet on the same occasion
Need and distress call forth the Bounty of God
The Babe that bore witness to the Prophet
The Eagle that carried off the Prophet's boot
The Man who asked Moses to teach him the language of Beasts and Birds
The Woman whose twenty children all died in infancy
Why Hamza in his old age refused to protect himself with a coat of mail
The advantages of Deliberation
The death of Bilál
The World and the Body
Statute and Analogy
The reverence due to the Shaykhs from their disciples
Conventional and intuitive knowledge
Faná and Baqá
The Wakil of Bukhárá and his Master
The appearance of the Holy Spirit in human shape to Mary, the Mother of Jesus
The most beautiful City
The Lover in the haunted Mosque
The worldliness of Galen
How Satan deceived the Quraysh
The Boy who heat a tomtom in order to scare a Camel on which they were beating a drum
Comparison of the true Believer suffering tribulation to peas being boiled in a pot
The Mathnawi and its critics
The outer and inner sense of the Qur'án
Why the Saints take refuge in mountains and caves
How the mountains joined in the song of David
The Foal that would not drink
The cry of the Devil
How each element in the Body is drawn to its original source, and the Soul likewise
The Prophet and the Captives
The Gnat and the Wind in the presence of Solomon
The perfidious Lover
Book IV
Preface (in prose)
Proem
The perfidious Lover (contillued)
The Preacher who prayed for the wicked
The answer of Jesus to the question, "What is the hardest thing to bear?
The Súfi who caught his wife with a strange man
The Names of God
Comparison of the World to a bath-stove
The Tanner who fainted on smelling otto and musk
The Jew who tempted 'Ali
The building of the Farther Mosque (the Temple of Solomon)
The Faithful are naught but brothers
The unspoken Sermon of the Caliph 'Uthmán
Man the Macrocosm
Comparison of the Prophet and the Moslem saints to the Ark of Noah
Solomon and Bilqis
The Miracles of Shaykh 'Abdullah Maghribi
The Druggist and the Clay-eater
The Dervish and the Carrier of firewood
Ibráhim ibn Adham and his abandonment of his Kingdom
The thirsty man who, climbed a walnut-tree and dropped the walnuts into the water
Halima and the infant Mohammed
The Worldly and the Spiritual
The Poet and the two Viziers
Pharaoh and Hámán
The Demon who sat on the throne of Solomon
How Cain learned the grave-digger's trade
The Súfi who contemplated the beauty of the Garden in his own heart
Worldly knowledge and power a dangerous weapon in the hands of the wicked
O thou that wrappest thyself
The Slave whose allowance was reduced
Man half angel and half beast
Majnún and his she-camel
The Divine and the Thief who stole his turban
The World's enticement and warning
The food of the Saints
Death the touchstone of pretension
The hypocritical Encomiast
The divine Physicians
How Abú Yazid (Báyazid) Bistámi predicted the birth of Abu- '1-Hasan Kharraqáni
How the wind blew perversely against Solomon
Abu'l Hasan at the tomb of Abú Yazid
The Man who took counsel with his enemy
The Prophet's appointment of a Young Man of Hudhayl to command the army
The Ecstasy of Báyazid
The wise, the half-wise, and the foolish
The Three Fishes
The ablutionary Prayers
The Man who failed to profit by the wise counsels of a Bird
Moses and Pharaoh as types of Reason and Imagination
The spiritual vision in which all the senses become one
Moses and Pharaoh
The World's assault on the Unseen
The Purification of the Heart
I was a Hidden Treasure
Speak ye unto men according to the measure of their understandings
The Prophet's promise of Paradise to 'Ukkásha
The royal Falcon and the Old Woman
'Ali's advice to the Mother whose child was in danger of falling from the top of the water-spout
Like attracts like
The Prophet and the Arab Chiefs
Paradise and Hell are the effects of Divine Mercy and Wrath
The Argument between the Atheist and the Mystic
The Purpose of Creation
Why Moses was loved by God
The King and his Boon-companion and the Courtier who acted as intercessor
Abraham rejects the proffered help of Gabriel
The mystery of Life and Death
Body and Spirit
The Prince and the Witch of Kabul
The Ascetic who laughed while the people were dying of hunger
Live in harmony with Universal Reason
The Sons of 'Uzayr
Verily, I ask pardon of God seventy times every day
The weakness of the discursive Reason
Submission to the Saints
The Mule and the Camel
The Egyptian and the Israelite
The Pear-tree of Illusion
The spiritual Evolution of Man
Divine immanence in Creation
Dhu'l-Qarnayn and Mount Qáf
The Ant that saw the pen writing
The Prophet's vision of Gabriel in his real form
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