[Video] Sufi poem by Rumi set to beautiful music and visuals

Poetry that nourishes the being by invoking the spirit, alluding to the eternal and taming the infernal:

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Footnote: An Iranian friend of mine once told me: Rumi was never ‘Rumi’ in his homeland. Only to the distant sufis of India etc, he was Rumi as he lived around Rome. Similarly, Indians never know Khusro as ‘Dehelvi’, only the middle easterners would call im Dehelvi (of Delhi, India).

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