Maulana Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi’s Messages for the New Generation

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Human thoughts can articulate powerful concepts of humanity; therefore, historically we are witness of remarkable personalities such as Ghalib, Rumi, Shakespeare and many other scholars and writers. Their thoughts, ideas and literary texts have given inspirational meanings and messages to the people all around the world. Fortunately, Afghanistan with its rich literature has many inspirational figures who are worthy of praise and their names will be alive in the history, literature and minds of Afghan nation and the world. Rumi (1207-1273) was born in Balkh, Afghanistan and due to some reasons settled in Konya, Turkey; he has been venerated by people in all over the world because of his graceful thoughts. His writing and rhythmical expressions include different types of aspects of mortality. He encourages his readers that all human beings should accept each other although they are different in many aspects of their lives. Though, contextual differences such as language, religion, culture, gender, etc. can pose different types of challenges and definitely can cause different types of conflicts among people, the great man, Rumi, in almost all his poems has asked the readers to be the problem solvers rather than problem makers. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to redefine his messages for the new generation to guide them through his great ideas toward humanity, and to evaluate his ideas on how to live like a real human being.

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