Information about Rumi and Shams

Rumi
Here, the information that i took from the site of www.mevlana.net

Mevlana who is also known as Rumi, is a philosopher and mystic of Islam, but not a Muslim of the orthodox type. His doctrine advocates unlimited tolerance, positive reasoning, goodness, charity and awareness through love. To him and to his disciples all religions are more or less truth. Looking with the same eye on Muslim, Jew and Christian alike, his peaceful and tolerant teaching has appealed to men of all sects and creeds. Mevlana Rumi is generally known in the west simply by the epithet Rumi which means Anatolian or in the east he is known as Maulana Rumi. In Turkey, he is globally referred to as Mevlana in Turkish, it means 'Our Master'. His sayings makes him Master. Here some his sayings;
Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.

In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improves.

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.


Shams


The information about Shams-e-Tabrizi taken from www.spiritualfoundation.net/sufisshaykhs3.htm


1248 was an Iranian Sufi mystic born in the city of Tabriz in Iranian Azerbaijan. He is responsible for initiating Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi(rah), usually known as Rumi in the West, into Islamic mysticism, and is immortalized by Rumi's poetry collection Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i ("The Works of Shams of Tabriz")(raz). Hazrat Shams-e-Tabrizi(raz) lived together with Rumi in Koyna in present-day Turkey, for several years, and is also known to have travelled to Damascus in present-day Syria.

Some quotes of Shams

A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.

Joy is like pure clear water; wherever it flows, wondrous blossoms grow...Sorrow is like a black flood; wherever it flows it wilts the blossoms.

Blessing is excess, so to speak, an excess of everything. Don't be content with being a faqih (religious scholar), say I want more - more than being a Sufi (a mystic), more than being a mystic - more than each thing that comes before you.

Analysis: The Forty Rules of Love

First of all, I'm going to tell you why I chose this topic.The Forty Rules of Love is one of the most effective book that I have read so far. It is about Love as it is understood its name it includes two different Love, one is contemporary Love another is spiritual love between the Sufi poet and mystic Rumi.It is written by Elif Shafak and was published in March 2009.
Secondly, I'm going to tell you why I chose pink theme. The first edition of book is covered with pink color and get too much criticism from men since pink color is related with women. Men do not like the color pink as they think it is gifted color for women. In order to get men's attraction, the publisher began to publish grey books.As the orginal version of the book is pink, I chose the pink theme.

Contemporary LOVE
Ella Rubenstein is a married women and has three children when she gets a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first task is to submit a report about Sweet Blasphemy, a novel which is written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella gets too much affected by his story of dervish known as Shams of Tabriz because he searches for his soulmate in order to share his experience and ideas about sufizm. His soulmate is Rumi who is poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic also well liked and appreciated by citizens of Konya(a holly city in Turkey where Rumi lived and is laid to rest). Ella follows Shams's rules which are about the unity of all people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. While she reads, she makes contact with Aziz Zahara for share her personal life in the light of these forty rules of Shams. As they talk, they begin to feel closer each other.

Spiritual LOVE
The spiritual Love is between Rumi and Shams.Both of them desire to have a soulmate as a mentor. They somehow find each other. Before they encounter, both know that there is somenone to share their own ideas. After they ecounter, they begin to transfer their knowledge and wisdom to each other. That creates a spiritual LOVE between them.

The book is as fluent as time while you are reading. You want to finish the book immediately, but as you reach the end of the book, you do not want to finish the book. I want to give much more information but since I am afraid of loosing of charming of the book, so after you read the book, I want you to make comment in that blog...