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Poetry by RUMI -- Only Breath

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One of 21 video poems in Four Seasons Productions newly released Moving Poetry Series - Three innovative new films - RANT * RAVE * RIFF. Only Breath was written in the 13th century by the Sufi mystic poet Jalal ad-Din Rumi and translated and recited in our film by Coleman Barks. Our politicians and generals would do well to absorb the lessons of this poem. To learn more about this provocative new series, how to purchase directly from our online store or on Amazon.com and for the full transcripts of our films poems, visit our website at www.4spFilm.com.MUST be experienced in full sound on a big screen.

Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: dkadagian

Length: 04:36
Rating: 4.91
Views: 32299

Tags: Barks  Bly  Coleman  Iraq  Islam  Jelaluddin  Mystic  Poem  Poetry  Poets  religion  Robert  Rumi  spirituality  Sufi  

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xtremeownage2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
PS: This Coleman guy disgusts me!He picks and chooses which poems he wants to translates, and often times does a really bad job at translating!Glory be to Allah the infinitely compassionate, the infinitely merciful. Glory be to Allah's beloved Prophet (Peace and Blessings be upon him), who is the most HONEST, RIGHTEOUS, PIOUS, KIND, SINCERE, HUMBLE, BEAUTIFUL, MODEST, AND PERFECT creation of Allah!
xtremeownage2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
"Now, you should know that Muhammad (PBUH) is the leader and guide.As long as you don't come by Muhammad (PBUH) first, you won't reach us."- Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi (RA)"I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life.I am the dust on the path of Muhammad (PBUH), the Chosen One.If anyone quotes anything except this from my sayings,I am quit of him and outraged by these words"- Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi (RA)THERE IS NO Tasawwuf (Sufism) without the love of the P. Muhammad (PBUH)
siddika1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Thank you, thank you from the fullness of my heart. Wouldn't Rumi himself have loved to see and experience what we most fortunate human beings can see and experience together today!The beauty of what you have created here is beyond words. Again, thank you!
Rhapsodist11 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Marvelous!
exminoltauser (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Cyrus2060, not a a day has gone by in the past 25 years of my life that I haven't listened to Rumi. His face is tattooed on my back and his poems are in my sole. I know the poem posted here by heart. It is from Divan Kabir Shams Tabrizi (raz). Masnavi is another story. It has 50,000 lines and 424 stories that illustrate man's predicament in his search for God. It tells the Bible/Quran stories in a way that a Sufi can't sit still. He gets up and dances in continues circle reaching his God.
exminoltauser (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Zaash007, you don't make any sense. You are just trying to argue because the alternative would be to take back the accusation you made about the Iranians being "false claimers."
zaash007 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Exminoltauser! Wrong, Rumi not only wanted Persians to get that heavenly feel by reading the verses of Quran but he wanted everyone (every single person)to understand what Rumi found out. And if my responses are ridiculous, it is because you do not have the capacity to take them. That is why it is rediculous. Again, I'm not talking about the physical boundary of Persian empire, I was talking about it's diversity and variety of scholars that just did not belong to the physical Persian empire.
CYRUS2060 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Exmin You do not know RUMI.listen read the poem posted here in persian.zaash007You are AWAKENED i hope...so talking to EGOs of unconscious people is...useless..I am iranian and love that place and people but i know who i truly am.
exminoltauser (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You don't know what you are talking about. Turkey was never captured. It was part of Persia! Rumi dedicated the last years of his life writing the Masavi in Persian. He wanted the Persians to get that heavenly feel by reading the verses of Bible and Quran in their own language. Result was Sufism that only a Persian speaking person can truly feel, because the poems are written in Persian. The poems you read of Rumi and see on youtube were translated from Persian. Your responses are ridiculous.
zaash007 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Yeah, thanks for it. but Turkey's mentality was not part of Persian. Only the physical Turkey was captured and was part of Persia. Right? The sprituality of Turkey was never part of Persia. Right? People in Turkey had different mentality and still have different mentalities than you Iranians.

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