Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations — since I was cut from the reed bed, man and woman have moaned in my lament.
Longing
Rumi, Masnavi, Book I
History of the Book
Dictated in Konya over the last years of Rumi's life and called by Jami 'the Qur'an in the Persian tongue'. Its six volumes move from the reed's cry of separation to union, and return again and again to the Muhammadan light as the origin of the seeker's longing.
Passages of Light
The lovers of God are not the water-carriers of this world; they drink from the cup that Ahmad passed around.
Love
Rumi, Divan-e Shams