Tehran Times - Tehran, IranMonday, October 15, 2007
Iran’s cultural attaché’s office in Germany held a seminar on the philosophy of Persian mystic and poet Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi on October 11 on the sidelines of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Iran’s ambassador Homayun Hemmati made a speech at the event in which he described how Rumi believed that the human soul has a natural inclination towards God and that this tendency is a source of comfort to mankind.
He said that Rumi likens humanity to a reed which has been separated from its reedbed, a symbol used by Rumi to convey man’s feeling of loss of proximity to God.
Head of Iran’s Institute of Philosophy Gholam Reza Avani also made a speech concerning Rumi’s worldview. He went on to talk about philosophers in general, categorizing them according to their ideologies concerning the essence of mankind.
Iranian scholar Shahram Pazuki reviewed a passage from Rumi’s Masnavi and described Rumi’s spiritual view of war and peace with reference to this great opus.
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