— The Persian Mystics: Jalalu'd-din Rumi (tr. F. Hadland Davis, 1907), "Behold the Water of Waters"
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From the selection titled Behold the Water of Waters in Rumi’s Masnavi.
Jalalu’d-din Rumi (1207–1273) composed the Masnavi — some 25,000 couplets of stories and teaching — in Konya, in present-day Turkey, after the loss of his teacher Shams of Tabriz. This passage follows the public-domain selections published in The Persian Mystics (1907); the selection title is cited with this quote.
