Rumi

A friend once told me about Rumi so then I read a couple of his shorter poetry. When I read the poetry contained in The Enlightened Mind, I thought most of it was pretty difficult to understand. However, the way in which he delivers deep thought (which reflects Islam) shows an adept poet, or perhaps a philosopher. I preferred the passage in which Rumi references gold but uses it metaphorically. I particularly enjoyed it because of its portrayal of love and what it should feel like to love; as if everything is golden. I found this to be a profound excerpt because of the way the message is carefully melded (no pun intended) by taking an inanimate object deemed beautiful by the masses while it also simultaneously represents greed. However, initially, Rumi creates an illusion that the gold is something good by taking advantage of the superficial nature of humans and then smacking the metaphor it represents, right in the reader's face. The complexity woven into Rumi's work is still unprecedented today.