# Spiritual Verses

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- Book: [Spiritual Verses](https://www.bookquiver.com/roumi/spiritual-verses) ([Spiritual Verses.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/roumi/spiritual-verses.md))
- Authors: [Roumi](https://www.bookquiver.com/roumi)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-791-0
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2006-09-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma ‘navi, or ‘spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored ‘mystical’ poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was a poet and a mystic, but he was first a teacher; in these verses he draws the reader into the complexities of human love and separation and explains the path to divine love through the elimination of self-regard and worldly desires. Drawing on diverse sources from bawdy tales and fables to stories of the prophet Mohammed, these verses are brief in expression yet copious in meaning.