Shams Tabrizi | Discourse 2: "The Mirror of the Ego"

Shams Tabrizi | Discourse 2: "The Mirror of the Ego"

* Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast * Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani * Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki * Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi * Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi [https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi] What if the people who challenge you the most show you who you truly are? In this episode, I explore Shams Tabrizi's powerful metaphor about mirrors, truth, and the courage it takes to confront our ego. Shams teaches us that facing criticism is the first step toward self-knowledge and spiritual growth. Topics explored: - Why we break the mirrors that show our flaws - The real meaning of justice in Shams' view - How to receive criticism as a path to growth - Becoming a mirror for others—with honesty and love  My latest books: * Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press] * The Soul-Conquering Love in Fayz Kashani’s Poetry: Translations and Annotations (Persian and English); available for in print and digital formats: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press]   * Visit our ⁠Academy of Mystic Poetics and Philosophy⁠, and check out our courses: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses] * If you enjoy the content and wish to ⁠support our work⁠, your generosity helps us continue creating: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations] * Watch more from Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HHJERERmZ7fn8cYrLJOzvqy&si=m5l2JJfTOLetqpST [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HHJERERmZ7fn8cYrLJOzvqy&si=m5l2JJfTOLetqpST]  * Watch more from our Ibn Arabi Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat] * My recent publications: https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani [https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani]   #Persianpoetry #ShamsTabrizi #Sufism #mysticalPoetry #spiritualWisdom #justice #poetry #iran #IslamicPhilosophy

Ch5. E3/4. Ibn Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam (Seals of Wisdom), Wisdom of Abraham

* Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani * Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi [https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi] In the Wisdom of Abraham, Ibn Arabi explores how the divine reality becomes knowable through created existence while always exceeding it. Abraham, named al-Khalīl (“the intimate friend”), symbolizes "mutual indwelling" (permeation): God is manifest in creation, and creation reveals God. The chapter grapples with paradoxes of agency, knowledge, praise, and responsibility, asking how humans both depend on the Real and serve as loci in which divine Names appear. Its central concern is to show that divine transcendence and immanence are not opposites but intertwined dimensions of a single, dynamic relationship between the Real and the human knower. * My latest book: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press] * Visit our ⁠Academy of Mystic Poetics and Philosophy⁠, and check out our courses: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses] * If you enjoy the content and wish to ⁠support our work⁠, your generosity helps us continue creating: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations] * Watch more from our Ibn Arabi Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat] * My recent publications: https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani [https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani] #IbnArabi #Sufism #SpiritualWisdom #FususAlHikam #Tasawwuf #MysticalTheology

"Love is the Master," Persian Poem

🔹Host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani 🔹 Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast   عشقست اصل بندگی من بنده و مولای عشق عشقست آب زندگی من بنده و مولای عشق Love is the essence of servitude, I am the servant and love is the master, Love is the water of life—I am the servant, and love is the master. عشقست جان جان جان از عشق شد پیدا جهان عشقست پیدا و نهان من بنده و مولای عشق Love is the soul of the soul of the soul, the world appeared through love, Love is the manifest and hidden—I am the servant, and love is the master. کار من و تدبیر عشق سعی من و تقدیر عشق حلق من و زنجیر عشق من بنده و مولای عشق My affairs and the scheme of love, my effort and the destiny of love,  My neck and the chain of love—I am the servant, and love is the master.   (Fayz Kashani, Divan, ghazal 539, in The Soul-Conquering Love, pages 134-137)   My latest books: 🔹The Soul-Conquering Love in Fayz Kashani’s Poetry: Translations and Annotations (Persian and English); available for in print and digital formats: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press 🔹 Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press   🔹Visit our ⁠Academy of Mystic Poetics and Philosophy⁠, and check out our courses: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses.  🔹If you enjoy the content and wish to ⁠support our work⁠, your generosity helps us continue creating: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations 🔹Watch more from Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HHJERERmZ7fn8cYrLJOzvqy&si=m5l2JJfTOLetqpST    #Persianpoetry #PersianPoem #Sufism

Ch5. E2/4. Ibn Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam (Seals of Wisdom), Wisdom of Abraham

* Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani * Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi [https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi] In the Wisdom of Abraham, Ibn Arabi explores how the divine reality becomes knowable through created existence while always exceeding it. Abraham, named al-Khalīl (“the intimate friend”), symbolizes "mutual indwelling" (permeation): God is manifest in creation, and creation reveals God. The chapter grapples with paradoxes of agency, knowledge, praise, and responsibility, asking how humans both depend on the Real and serve as loci in which divine Names appear. Its central concern is to show that divine transcendence and immanence are not opposites but intertwined dimensions of a single, dynamic relationship between the Real and the human knower. * My latest book: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press] * Visit our ⁠Academy of Mystic Poetics and Philosophy⁠, and check out our courses: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses] * If you enjoy the content and wish to ⁠support our work⁠, your generosity helps us continue creating: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations] * Watch more from our Ibn Arabi Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat] * My recent publications: https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani [https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani] #IbnArabi #Sufism #SpiritualWisdom #FususAlHikam #Tasawwuf #MysticalTheology

Shams Tabrizi's Discourses (Maqalat) Explained | His Mystical Wisdom, Education, & Identity

🔹Host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani 🔹Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi   How does Shams Tabrizi unveil the path to divine truth? In this episode of the Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, I examine Shams's Discourses (Maqālāt), exploring his complex identity beyond the common labels of "dervish" or "illiterate."    My latest books: 🔹The Soul-Conquering Love in Fayz Kashani’s Poetry: Translations and Annotations (Persian and English); available for in print and digital formats: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press]   🔹 Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press]     🔹Visit our ⁠Academy of Mystic Poetics and Philosophy⁠, and check out our courses: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses]   🔹If you enjoy the content and wish to ⁠support our work⁠, your generosity helps us continue creating: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations [https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations]   🔹Watch more from Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HHJERERmZ7fn8cYrLJOzvqy&si=m5l2JJfTOLetqpST [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HHJERERmZ7fn8cYrLJOzvqy&si=m5l2JJfTOLetqpST]      🔻 Guiding questions: 1. How does Shams challenge the authority of formal religious knowledge in his Discourses? 2. What role does paradox play in Shams’s teaching style? 3. Is your perspective toward Shams the same after watching this video? 5. Which idea from this episode moved you the most—and why?   #ShamsTabrizi #Shams_Tabrizi #shams #Discourses #Maqalat #iran #Rumi #Persianpoetry