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Excerpts from RUMI & HIS FRIENDS Stories of the Lovers of God

Selected and Translated by Camille Adams Helminski with Susan Blaylock Forthcoming from Fons Vitae, June 2013: The Seeds That Keep Blooming [251] Sultan Bahauddin Walad told us one day: My father [Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi] said, “O Bahauddin, when the seed of my teaching has taken root in your heart, you will understand—reflect deeply on my teaching and really try to absorb it and if you do, felicity will be yours…. Read More…

Rumi beyond Culture

From the very beginning of my own training I was led to ask the question: If Mevlana were alive today, would he teach in the same way that he taught in Konya in the 13th century? So many aspects of his teaching and thought seem strikingly contemporary and this is not merely the result of translations that try to make him appear contemporary. His transcendence of his immediate culture is intrinsic to his message.

Conversation with Mawlana Asad Ali (Damascus)

The most beloved of people to Allah are those who are most beneficial to His servants. And I see no better benefit for His servants in our times than the goodly word that reminds the human being of his humanness and reminds everyone of their brotherhood in the abode of Adam. This is the message from the East, from the summertime in the winter of Damascus, so what do you have for us?

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