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On April 9, 2013, Images and Words won Loudwire's fan-voted March Metal Madness award for best metal album of all time. [19] The song "Under a Glass Moon" was awarded the 98th best guitar solo by an About.com guitar expert. [20] In October 2011, Images and Words was ranked number 7 on Guitar World magazine's top ten list of guitar albums of ...
The Masnavi, or Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi (Persian: مثنوی معنوی, DMG: Mas̲navī-e maʻnavī), also written Mathnawi, or Mathnavi, is an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, also known as Rumi. It is a series of six books of poetry that together amount to around 25,000 verses or 50,000 lines.
After Salah ud-Din's death, Rumi's scribe and favourite student, Hussam-e Chalabi, assumed the role of Rumi's companion. One day, the two of them were wandering through the Meram vineyards outside Konya when Hussam described to Rumi an idea he had had: "If you were to write a book like the Ilāhīnāma of Sanai or the Mantiq ut-Tayr of 'Attar ...
Shams-i Tabrīzī (Persian: شمس تبریزی) or Shams al-Din Mohammad (1185–1248) was a Persian [1] Shafi'ite [1] poet, [2] who is credited as the spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi and is referenced with great reverence in Rumi's poetic collection, in particular Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī.
Iblis the originator of analogical reasoning applied to the Word of God; Mystical experiences must be kept hidden from the vulgar; The contention between the Greek and Chinese artists; The Vision of Zayd; Luqmán and his fellow-servants; The conflagration in Medina in the days of the Caliph 'Umar 'Alí and the infidel who spat in his face
The verse of such Sufi poets as Sanai (died c. 1140), Attar (born c. 1119), and Rumi (died 1273) protested against oppression with an emphasis on divine justice and criticized evil rulers, religious fanaticism and the greed and hypocrisy of the orthodox Muslim clergy. The poetic forms used by these writers were similar to the folk song, parable ...
Tiger Death March memorial at Andersonville National Historic Site. During the Korean War, in the winter of 1951, 200,000 South Korean National Defense Corps soldiers were forcibly marched by their commanders, and 50,000 to 90,000 soldiers starved to death or died of disease during the march or in the training camps. [48]
A more recent translation into English, with commentary for each of the discourses, by Doug Marman (with the assistance of Jamileh Marefat, a direct descendant of Rumi) was published in 2010 under the title It Is What It Is, The Personal Discourses of Rumi (Spiritual Dialogues Project, Ridgefield, Washington), ISBN 978-0-9793260-5-9. Another ...