Before We Move On To Surah al Qiyama, 75........Will The Real Rumi Stand Up Please!

friends, dato and tanseri,

i like to push the envelope wider and wider all the time.
this has been a 'bad' habit of mine.
to get beyond the comfort zone, and enjoy it's moments.
i know some of you guys are 'allergic' to terms like tarekat, sufi , whirling dervish etc and etc.

be in the rain and enjoy been soaked wet!

let us get beyond our usual nasi goreng and nasi lemak; beyond our favourite ustaz azhar idrus 's querrels with the young mufti from wang kelian, dr rozmi ramlie or ustaz rasul dahri etc and etc

let us  just go and have a short peep into the world of sham tabrizi, rumi and shems friedlander, and see how the rest of the muslim world , past and present, fare.

forget the incesant  and tedious argumentations about bida'ah, ablution and whether bismillah shoud be 'sirr' or 'jarr' etc and etc for a short while....

today let us get beyond hadith and tafseer and join shems friedlander, author, film maker, lover and student of rumi, sufi adherrent, and above all muslim.

let us listen to his short discourse on rumi....a very much maligned poet within the arab and the muslim world today.
he is an afghan, who spoke persian and lived his whole life in turkey...a 7th century 'saint'....a very international chap!

you may not have to agree with rumi.
you may even dislike him.
but there is big world there who love him
most of them not yet muslim.
some, on the brink of being muslim.

listen all the same!listen to the end.
the pearls & gem are towards the end....


dr nik howk



shems friedlander's rumi,
[ he was addressing a motley group of people, mainly american, europeans....non-muslims and muslims, but all lovers of rumi  ]

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmEuGJkyd38  ]

Shems Friedlander—writer, artist, film maker, photographer and educator—has published his 10th book, Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi’s Forgotten Message. The book contains interactive digital content via QR codes. Among his other books are Winter Harvest, Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes and When You Hear Hoofbeats Think of a Zebra. Friedlander has recently been appointed Emeritus Prof at the American University in Cairo where he taught graphic design and painting for 20 years. He has won over 30 awards for graphic design. Friedlander has also written two monodramas and his documentary films have been shown at film festivals in the US and abroad.



only breath.....

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZqAnIp5dMQ  ]