Hachette India Essential Rumi: Special Calligraphed Collectible Edition

You are the drop and the oceanyou are kindness, you are anger, you are sweetness, you are poisondo not make me more disheartenedyou are the chamber of the sunyou are the abode of venusyou are the garden of all hopeoh beloved, let me enterthe love poems by the great thirteenth-century persian poet jelaluddin rumi, founder of the whirling dervishes of sufism, are both mystical and a mystery are they addressed to his mentor,  the wandering shams of tabriz (who converted him to a life of joy when he was thirty-eight), or to god or to a lover? reflecting the complexities and paradoxes of love and devotion - separation, cruelty and break-up - they are poems of great power and emotional intensity, of exuberant passion and overflowing imagination though seemingly addressed to a lover, in their imagery they encompass the universe and are metaphors of love in its physical form, reinforced by amazing rhythms which echo the dance of the whirling dervishes lassaâd metoui, the renowned arabic calligrapher, has beautifully captured the atmosphere and movement of the poems in this collection]]]