Immortal Echoes, Mortal Words

Rumi's: "The Beloved's Face," Divan, Ghazal 5 Explained

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  • Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
  • Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki
  • Music: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

    •  Guiding Inference Questions:

    1. Why does the poem begin with such vivid and detailed descriptions of the beloved's form? What does this suggest about the role of beauty in spiritual love?
    2. Why is the lover burning through the night into the day—what does this burning symbolize? How is this fire different from suffering or ordinary pain?
    3. Why does the Beloved push the lover away when he comes close, and call him back when he tries to leave? Is this a metaphor for the paradoxes of divine intimacy?
    4. What does it mean that even the image of the beloved becomes a companion to burning lovers? Can an image be enough to sustain a seeker?
    5. Why does the poem end with silence, “I will not speak another breath”? Has longing exhausted language? What does this silence reveal about the higher stages of the seeker’s path?
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