{"id":55,"date":"2016-05-01T05:17:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T05:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/?p=55"},"modified":"2016-05-03T16:55:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T16:55:46","slug":"55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/2016\/05\/01\/55\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumi&#8217;s Ney-Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-55-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/files\/2016\/05\/ney_spokenword-4_30_16.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/files\/2016\/05\/ney_spokenword-4_30_16.m4a\">http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/files\/2016\/05\/ney_spokenword-4_30_16.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beshno az ney chon hekaayat mikonad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to the (ney) reed flute as it tells a tale\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Az jodaayee ha shekaayat mi-konad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Complaining of seperation\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaz neyestaan ta maraa bebrideh and<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ever since I was separated from the reed bed\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dar nafiram mardo zan naalideh and<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>My lament has caused man and woman to moan\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sineh khaaham sharheh sharheh az faraagh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I want a chest torn by severance\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ta begooyam sharheh dardeh eshtiyaagh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>So that I may unfold the pain of love desire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Har kasi ku door maand az asleh khish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Whoever remains far from where they belong\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Baz jooyad roozegareh vasleh khish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Should seek the day of reunion again<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man be har jamiyati naalaan shodam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In every company I uttered my wailful notes\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jofteh bad haalaano khosh haalaan shodam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I consorted with the unhappy and happy\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 9: Sufi Piety II &#8211; The Ghazal (love lyric) and Mathnawi (narrative epic)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medium: Spoken Word<\/p>\n<p>Persian poetry puts to words the relationship between man and Creator. The masnawi is no different. It is a form of Persian narrative poetry that consists of rhyming couplets and a moral lesson. I\u00a0 decided to recite the first ten lines of Rumi\u2019s Ney-name that is a part of the Masnawi tradition. I used parts of another person\u2019s performance of the poem (his song can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZbyWwZxH-VM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZbyWwZxH-VM<\/a>) as background music. Sufi poetry, like the Quran, is an oral tradition and is meant to be experienced by the listener and reciter. Its in saying the words out loud that one can understand their meaning and come closer to God. In this way, recitation and singing can be considered a devotional exercise the connects the performer and listener alike.<\/p>\n<p>The story Rumi tells is of a reed separated from the reed-bed so that it can be formed into a flute. The reed flute bemoans his separation, and cries out. This separation alludes to the idea that people are separated from their origin, namely God, and now must suffer through the pain. The reed says \u201cI want a chest torn by separation\u2026\/So that a I may unfold the pain of love desire.\u201d Here you can see that it is through pain and separation that you can understand the depth of your love. Learning to love this way is important because Sufi mystics believe that love is the steed that can take you to the Divine. The choice of using a reed as the narrator is significant too. For a reed flute to produce music, it must first be hollowed out, in the same way that Sufis believe you must empty yourself of all egocentric tendencies before you can experience the divine. Only once the flute is hollow, can it produce music. The way music is produced is through someone blowing air into the flute, mimicking the act of God breathing life into his creation.<\/p>\n<p>This poem is not just about the author, but it speaks for all of people who are separated from their origin, whether the origin be God or their home country or any place that they feel like they belong. My mother\u2019s favorite line is \u201cWhoever remains far from where they belong\/Should seek the day of reunion again,\u201d because it reminds her of how she was separated for years from her family because of the war in Afghanistan, and now is slowly starting to find forms of reunion, however small they may be. In this same way, Rumi\u2019s end goal is for the flute to be returned to the redeemed, or for him to be returned to God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Beshno az ney chon hekaayat mikonad Listen to the (ney) reed flute as it tells a tale\u00a0 Az jodaayee ha shekaayat mi-konad Complaining of seperation\u00a0 &nbsp; Kaz neyestaan ta maraa bebrideh and Ever since I was separated from the reed bed\u00a0 Dar nafiram mardo zan naalideh and My lament has caused man and woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7991,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lailafortheloveofgodandhisprophet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}