JALÁLU'D-DÍN RÚMÍ
BY
F. HADLAND DAVIS
AUTHOR OF "IN THE VALLEY OF STARS
THERE IS A TOWER OP SILENCE"
WISDOM OF THE EAST
THE PERSIAN MYSTICS
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1920
TO
A. T. K.
THIS LITTLE BOOK OF EASTERN WISDOM
IS LOVINGLY INSCRIBED
"OUR JOURNEY IS TO THE ROSE-GARDEN OF UNION"
JALÁLU'D-DÍN RÚMÍ.
PREFACE
I desire to thank Mr. R. A. Nicholson for his kind and generouspermission to use selections from his Dīvāni Shamsi Tabrīz, and alsohis publishers, the Cambridge Press. I am deeply indebted to Mr. E. H.Whinfield for allowing me to use quotations from his rendering of theMasnavi (Trübner's Oriental Series). I also cordially thank Mr. JohnHastie for giving me permission to quote a few passages from the lateRev. Professor Hastie's "Festival of Spring" (James Maclehose and Sons,Glasgow). The poems quoted from this volume are entitled: "Thy Rose,""I saw the Winter weaving," "Love sounds the Music of the Spheres,""The Souls Love-moved," and "The Beloved All in All." All the othertranslations from the lyrical poetry of Jalálu'd-Dín Rúmí are by Mr. R.A. Nicholson. To these gentlemen, and to those I have left unnamed, Itender my warmest thanks for their help, sympathy, and interest in myattempt to "popularise the wisest of the Persian Súfís."
F. HADLAND DAVIS.
LONDON,
January 22, 1907.