Rumi: The Rose-Faced One & the Lost Self | Ghazal 2059 | Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast

• Host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
• Recitation: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki
• Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi
• Music: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi

How does Rumi dramatize the soul’s struggle between divine presence and worldly distraction? In this episode of the Rumi Podcast, we explore Ghazal 2059 from Rumi’s Dīwān-i Shams Tabrīzī. This stunning poem begins with a sudden mystical utterance and spirals through divine rebuke, distraction, symbolic misguidance, and eventual reorientation toward truth. Through the symbols of the rose garden, thief, crow, owl, and moon behind clouds, Rumi constructs a journey of self-forgetting and divine recollection, where speech, knowledge, and even poetry itself become both a veil and a vehicle. Let's explore this magnificent poem together.

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🔻Guiding Questions:

1. How do distractions and even beautiful things (like poetry) distance us from what truly matters?
2. What is the significance of the “strike across the mouth”? How do you interpret this act spiritually?
3. Do the owl and crow represent types of people—or types of perceptions within us?
4. How does this poem reflect your own journey between loss, distraction, and return to truth?

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