Knowing your false ego will lead you to the knowledge of God.ģ. Meet, challenge and ultimately prevail over your nafs (false ego self, psyche, soul) with your heart. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind. The path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head.
SHAMS TABRIZI YOU CAN BE EVERYTHING FULL
If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.Ģ. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us.
How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves we don’t see th ings as they are, we see them as we are. Like life, and love, learning is not a race to the finish, but a voyage to the start. knowledge that cannot be understood by the learned.) Shams’ forty observations about the nature of love and God, the first ten of which are illustrated here, can be read together (fine but a bit left brain, a bit “learned” as Shams might say) or discretely, each a starting-point for reflection (more right brain, letting the mind wander laterally and make connections). Rumi then asked Shams, “What is this?” To which Shams replied, “Mowlana, this is what you cannot understand” (i.e. Rumi hastily rescued the books and to his surprise they were all dry. knowledge that cannot be understood by the unlearned.) On hearing this, Shams threw the stack of books into a nearby pool of water. Shams Tabriz, passing by, asked him, “What are you doing?” Rumi scoffingly replied, “Something you cannot understand” (i.e. One day, according to legend, Rumi was reading next to a large stack of books. It is in this time, that the concept of “whirling dervishes” originated. He was the spiritual teacher and advisor of Rumi, and indeed it’s often said that Rumi was a professor who Shams transformed into a mystic, a lover, and a poet. There are many legends describing their meeting in Konya: Rumi was taught by Shams in seclusion for 40 days, and the period after this is described as Rumi’s ‘mysticism’, where sufis danced, played music (rabab), and drank wine. Shams of Tabriz was a Persian Sufi and roaming dervish who lived at the end of the twelfth/ early thirteenth century.
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