Rumi : Poet and Mystic (1207-1273)/
Translated from Persian by: Reynold A. Nicholson.
Hardback 190 pages
Contents:
General introduction. Preface. Introduction. Appendix. Prelude. 1. The song of the reed. 2. Remembered music. 3. Love in absence. 4. "The marriage of true minds". 5. "A sleep and a forgetting". 6. The grief of the dead. 7. The unregenerate. 8. The burden of existence. 9. The spirit of the saints. 10. The children of light. 11. Love, the hierophant. 12. The love of woman. 13. Divine beauty. 14. "I turn toward thee". 15. The truth within us. 16. Mystics know. 17. Asleep to the world. 18. The faithful are one soul. 19. The ladder to heaven. 20. The true Sufi. 21. Nothing venture nothing win. 22. The man who looked back on his way to hell. 23. Spiritual churning. 24. The blind follower. 25. The birds of Solomon. 26. The carnal soul. 27. The beauty of death. 28. A prayer for good behaviour. 29. Communion with the saints. 30. The man who fled from Azrael. 31. "Omnes Eodem Cogimur". 32. Faith and works. 33. "No monkery in Islam. 34. Do not travel alone. 35. Fine feathers. 36. The treasure-seeker. 37. The mystic way. 38. The sceptic. 39. The evil in ourselves. 40. The hierarchy of saints. 41. The spiritual guide. 42. The uses of tribulation. 43. "The spirit helpeth our infirmity". 44. Unseen miracles. 45. The reward of the righteous. 46. The saint’s vision of eternity. 47. Beware of hurting the saint. 48. The disinterested Cadi. 49. Good words. 50. "Here am I". 51. The soul of prayer. 52. The friend who said "I". 53. God beyond praise. 54. Knowledge is power. 55. Our real names. 56. Immediate knowledge. 57. Tradition and intuition. 58. Feeling and thinking. 59. Mystical perception. 60. Love and fear. 61. The ascending soul. 62. The negative way. 63. The spirit of the universe. 64. The absolute. 65. Fons vitae. 66. The purpose of creation. 67. Divine providence. 68. Causation. 69. The divine factory. 70. The world of time. 71. Reality