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Sufi Comics: Rumi Kindle Edition

by Mohammed Ali Vakil (Author), Mohammed Arif Vakil (Author), Rahil Mohsin (Illustrator), Format: Kindle Edition

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An enriching collection of Rumi’s poems in graphic form.

Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi, a 13th century theologian, jurist and poet led a quiet life in central Anatolia, Turkey. He left a legacy of the most profound poems and stories.

It’s been 800 years since Rumi lay ink to his mystical words. Yet, even today, the spiritual wisdom that flowed from his lips, creating ripples in our hearts.

On reading his poems, one can’t help but reflect that there is more to this world than the physical and material.

The objects he refers to are so familiar, his message so universal and words so sublime, that one finds simple villagers and to university professors all quoting Rumi with fondness and fervour.

Sufi Comics - Rumi is an enriching collection of Rumi’s entrancing poems in graphic form. We’ve chosen to portray the illustrations in the Turkish-Iranian miniature style to reflect the ambiance of 13th Century Persia.

Every poem is followed by sacred verses of the Holy Quran and Islamic traditions, to reflect the inspiration of Rumi’s poems. These verses and traditions are inscribed in Arabic by Muqtar Ahmed, one of India s finest Islamic calligraphers.

We live in a world that is increasingly materialistic and devoid of the spirit. In times like these, Rumi's poems are an invitation to get in touch with your soul and experience Divine Love.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00N6HHVD8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sufi Studios (August 30, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 30, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 115789 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Not enabled
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 154 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 9351961508

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Mark

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2016

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Simply lovely introduction to a great spiritual master.

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M. Nkosi

a must read

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2014

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This book is the latest of three books from Sufi Comics. It's a must read, like the one that has proceeded it. It's a series that you will read over and over again.

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arjun

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2016

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beautifully designed. wish all books were like this.

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Sayed

Keep your Dragon in snow

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2014

Ever since I read Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī’s (is also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī’s) Masnavi – I am completely Rumified. His magical and spritual words will leave you wanting more, such is the writing of Rumi.
Born in the village of Wakhsh, a small town located at the river Wakhsh in Persia (in what is now Tajikistan) in the year 30 September 1207.

When I was reading book 3 of Masnavi, I heard that Vakil brothers are going to publish a comic on Rumi, Since that day I was wondering which stories will they pick up from the wast collections of stories in Masnavi. One more thing which made me restless and curious to read this book was – how the stories will be rendered? will it match my imagination or better than that?
When I read the comic book and the stories in it – they are way better than what I imagined they might look like in comic form. The book is divided into different chapters,each chapter will tell a spiritually illuminating story, the first one is the story which will tell the origins of Rumi – How Rumi became Rumi. Origin story is beautifully illustrated by Rahil Mohsin and conveys to user the true origins of Rumi. I didn’t knew before reading this story that Rumi and His father met Ibn Al-Arabi (the greatest Sufi master) and how he uttered when he saw Rumi and His father – “There goes the sea followed by ocean!”.

The story I most liked and one of my favorite is the ‘Keep your dragon in snow’ – this story is awesomely illustrated and tells user that your Lower Self (Nafs) is never dead and don’t assume it to be otherwise. It’s exactly like a frozen dragon in snow – if you think it to be dead and bring it out in light of wanting-energy – it will brake out from freeze and kill you without showing the slightest mercy. So Keep your dragon in snow.

Another timeless tale which tells of annihilation of Self when you are on the path of Haqiqa [Reality] beautifully rendered and illustrated in the tale named “Since You Are I“. As one of the Sufi mystics puts it ‘When you are on the path of Sharia ‘I‘ is required and When you are on the path of Haqiqa Keeping/Saying ‘I‘ is a grave sin’.

When we user our sensual eye we cannot see the world as a whole – because sensual eyes has limited visibility but if we user our intellectual (aqli) eye – it can cover the infinite boundaries of universe and see the world as whole. This point is illustrated beautifully in Sufi Comic’s ‘The Elephant in the Dark‘ tale.
Some Indian bring an elephant to be exhibited in a dark room. A number of men touch and feel the elephant in the dark and, depending upon where they touch it, they believe the elephant to be like a water spout (trunk), a fan (ear), a pillar (leg) and a throne (back). Rumi uses this story as an example of the limits of individual perception – as he puts it
“The sensual eye is just like the palm of the hand. The palm has not the means of covering the whole of the beast”.
“If each had a candle and they went in together the differences would disappear.”

Each story is followed by an Ayath of the Holy Quran and Sayings of Holy Prophet Muhammad (Blessings and peace be upon him) or Hazrath Ali (May Allah be pleased with him). Each Ayah/Saying is chosen to match the story.
Go ahead and read this wonderfully illustrated and spiritually illuminating tales from Rumi – in the comic form. I recommend this book to everyone who wants to read “Comics for the soul”.

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A Work of Art

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2015

His appeal transcends every barrier of religion, class and ethnicity. His poetry speaks to us all, no matter who or what or where we may be, what belief-system we may claim to follow, and at what time in history we may live. Some seven centuries after his demise, Maulana Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi, more popularly known as ‘Rumi’, remains among the world’s most beloved poets and mystics. Trained as a religious scholar and jurist, Rumi’s meeting with Shams Tabrizi, the man who was to become his spiritual master, marked a complete transformation in his life, leading him to become one of the world’s most well-known Sufi poets and lovers of God.

Rumi’s magnum opus is the Masnavi-e Manavi (“Rhyming Couplets of Profound Spiritual Meaning”), a vast collection of mystically-inspired poems. It is considered to be among the gems of world literature, and has been translated into numerous languages. It focuses on instructing disciples on the Sufi path how to reach their goal.

Some years ago, a band of lovers of Sufi literature based in Bangalore got together to bring out Sufi-related literature in comic form and using contemporary idiom, trying, in this way, to reach out with the Sufi message to a broader cross-section of society, beyond a narrow circle. This beautifully-crafted book—in itself a delicate work of art—is their third publication. The publishers describe the book as “a modest attempt to bring awareness of what Rumi meant to share. A deeper insight into his teachings.”

Rumi’s Masnavi-e Manavi consists of six books of poetry, and comprises some 25,000 verses or around 50,000 lines. If you don’t have the resources or time or even the inclination to read all of it, you can at least savour some samples from it from the selection that this book provides.

The book consists (in addition to a chapter describing in brief some key events in Rumi’s life), of ten illustrated ‘episodes’ from the Masnavi-e Manavi, based on selections of verses from the text. These verses are woven together to form an entertaining, and, at the same time, instructive story. Using everyday motifs and experiences that all of us—even now, centuries after Rumi left the world to meet his Maker—can identify with, each story conveys a profound spiritual truth. These truths are all ingredients of the spiritual journey—the love of God, surrendering or transcending the ego, controlling the tongue, patiently braving other people’s taunts, and so on.

In a simple, straight-to-the-heart and non-preachy way, Rumi inspires his readers to ponder on the purpose of why they have been sent into the world and to reflect on how they should lead their lives. In the story of the Tattoo Artist, for instance, we learn of a man who went to a barber to get him to tattoo a lion on his shoulder. The barber begins his work, only to be told by the man, each time he starts tattooing a particular part of the lion’s body, to stop—the pain is too excruciating for him to bear. The flustered barber finally throws away the tattooing needle, saying that he’s never heard of a lion without a tail or head or stomach and that God Himself never created a lion like that! The moral of the story, Rumi tells us, is that to escape from the ‘poison’ of our ‘dark soul’, we have to bear the ‘pain of the needle’.

Another of the several delightful Rumi-tales that the book recounts is the well-known one about the Indians and the elephant. Once, Rumi tells us, a group of Indians took an elephant into a dark-house to exhibit it. People began to go inside to see the strange animal. But since it was too dark, they could only feel it with their hands. One man put his hand on the beast’s trunk and exclaimed that the elephant was like a water-pipe! Another, who touched its ear, insisted it was like a fan! A third, who felt its leg, said it was like a pillar! A fourth, who placed his hand on the animals’ back, said it was like a throne! Each understood—and in his own limited way—the elephant based on his particular limited experience of it. Had the men simply lit a candle in the dark room, all their differences would have vanished and the animal would have been seen for what it truly was! And so it is with us humans, too. Each of us views and interprets things from our narrow and restricted perspectives, not seeing them as they truly are.

Yet another story that is intimately related to our contemporary context—of seemingly intractable conflict between people from diverse religious backgrounds over the one God that all of them claim to revere—is one about the quarrel about a bunch of grapes. A man gives a Persian, an Arab, a Turk and a Greek a coin, and they all want to buy a bunch of grapes with it. But because they call grapes by different names in their respective languages, each of them thinks that what the others want are not grapes but something else! In their madness, Rumi tells us, they start fighting because they do not know “the hidden meaning of names”, being “empty of true knowledge and filled with ignorance.” Had an authentic mystic master, proficient in many languages, been present, the men would have been pacified. He would have said to them, “I can give you everything you want with this one coin, if you give me your heart sincerely without pretence.” “Your one coin will become four,” he would have explained, adding that, “All you say only produces struggle and separation; what I tell you brings harmony.”

Each poem-story is exquisitely illustrated, and is accompanied by some lines from the Quran (in the original Arabic as well as in English translation, in beautiful calligraphic style) that have the same message as the poem (Rumi, it is important to remember, was deeply immersed in the Islamic tradition, and his Masnavi-e Manavi, the publishers tell us, has more than 2000 references to the Quran). In addition to this are short, spiritually-edifying sayings of the Prophet Muhammad and Imam Ali that reinforce the message of the poem-stories.

This book is a gem, and everyone who has gone into bringing it out deserves, you will surely agree if you get to read it, our heartfelt gratitude and special thanks.

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Hashmi

Must read for all Rumi lovers.

Reviewed in India on December 17, 2018

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The very essence of Sufism has been captured very well in this book. Comic version makes it easy to understand Key sayings of Mevlana Rumi. I appreciate the effort put in by the authors and illustrator in creating this book.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2016

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Such a wonderful comic, beautiful illustrations.

Q M

Good read!

Reviewed in India on February 6, 2020

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Filled with illustrations and excerpts - it makes for a decentread.