Project Masnavi is the anticipated third album from acclaimed Persian-jazz group, Eishan Ensemble. Inspired by the lyrical poetry of Rumi’s epic masterpiece, Masnavi - one of the most precious books ...

You attain to knowledge by argument; You attain a craft or skill by practice; If voluntary poverty's your choice, companionship's the way, not hand or tongue. The knowledge of it passes soul to soul, ...

ISLAMABAD: The challenge for all humans is to reflect the divine by becoming an embodiment of love and compassion, for which we have to educate and purify our hearts. Speaking at a session titled ...

In God's presence, there is no room for two egos. You say "ego," and he says "ego"? Either you die in his presence, or he will in your presence, so that no duality may remain. Yet it is impossible ...

Urdu is a hybrid language that is based on the spoken languages of Northern India with a generous overlay of Arabic and Persian words. ‘Urdu’ is a Turkish word, which means a camp. When Muslims from ...

Parvin Seghat ol-Eslam, head of Golestan Palace, explained, “Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī’s Masnavi that we have submitted this year for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register lists is half-cut ...

Georgian poet Giorgi Lobzhanidze is the translator of the Persian masterpiece, which has been published in two volumes with contributions from the Iranian Culture Center in Tbilisi, the center ...

LAHORE: Musician Anjum Sherazi has composed the Urdu translation of Maulana Rumi’s famous masnavi composed in bherveen. The verses have been translated by Azhar Munir. Sherazi and Nasir Baloch sang ...

Speaking during a ceremony organized at the foundation to commemorate Rumi, Khamenei said that it doesn’t need to hold a dance ceremony to introduce a poet like Rumi and added, “The true Molavi is in ...

One almost expects theatremaker Jameel Gulrays to quote Mirza Ghalib, and say ‘Hain aur bhi duniya mein sukhanvar bahut acche… (there are better poets in this world)’ when asked about his upcoming ...