Jalal al-Din Rumi & Muhammad Isa Waley 
A Treasury of Rumi [EPUB ebook] 

TAKEN FROM DRAFT MANUSCRIPT

KEY THEMES

129 The nafs is something base

169 Journey of the spirit, not the body

171 Fire of anger > Hell

180 The Masnavi must be heeded with discrimination, being not just stories

202 Weeping over sins is better than prayers

203 Allah is the true Friend

204 Travelling helps you to grow

206 Real knowledge and love of Allah

209 Good manners: not to complain

213 Why Allah does not always answer or prayers right away

214 Malice is forbidden in Islam

220 Barrier of jealousy

220 Doing the work is part of trust

224 Look for spiritual friends

227 The Sufi is provided for by Allah

234 This world is tiny but seems great to the spiritually dead

235 You need spiritual vision

236 Your true homeland is the Next World

238 Your sustenance is in the Hands of Allah

239 Allah decides everything, but you must still work

241 Do not blame destiny; blame yourself

242 Don’t look back – look ahead

245 If you are with everyone you are alone; if you are with Allah you are with all

245 Drown in the sea of love

246 Love the Immortal, not the mortal

249 The repentance of Adam

251 Our apparent emotions, ?? joy and sorrow

253 The sun of Ma‘rifa never sets

254 Love the Essence, not the form

255 Love brings life and purity

261 Love is beyond need and greed

264 Love makes and breaks us again and again

266 Ikhla?: Allah Himself is the Reward

268 Allah’s lovers, like Him, take no sleep or food

269 To lovers humiliation and glory are alike

271 Being at prayer 24/7

274 ‘You need annihilation, not grammar’

275 Ikhlas: ask Him only – seek water from sea, not dry riverbed

277 Seeing one’s own faults

280 Think well of others

281 Ma‘rifa: seeing Allah everywhere

286 Ask, that you may be given

287 Escape attachment to secondary causes

288 Our troubles come to save us from worse

290 Dhikr Allah brings tranquillity

290 The Light of Allah protects and helps

292 Silence of the Sea

294 Bring your heart to Allah

295 Repentance and weeping

296 Muraqaba and veiling the faults of others

Dr Muhammad Isa Waley is an editor, researcher, and translator. He worked for 45 years as curator of Persian and Turkish manuscripts and books, first at the British Museum and then at the British Library. His main fields of research are the verse and prose literature of Muslim spirituality, and Islamic manuscripts. The subject of his Ph.D. thesis was the Dīvān or lyric poems of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī. His other published translations include Al-Arba‘īn (Forty Hadiths) of Jāmī; Mawlid al-Barzanjī, a paean on the Blessed Prophet’s Birth; and The Book of Contemplation (Kitaāb al-Tafakkur), Book 39 of Imam al-Ghazālī’s Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm al-dīn.