An appreciation of Molana (Rumi) and his ‘diwan of shams’.

Rumi is a rather well known poet, however I've never seen anyone talking about him in this sub.

What makes 'diwan of shams' special is hat he didn't write those poets, to become a famous writer, or win a royal grant or even for the world to read, he didn't need any of those he was a rich and famous scholar long before becoming a poet.

He wrote those 36,000 verses of poems only to calm down his inner sorrow and the overflow of thoughts and feelings, you can see it in every single verse, that how he keeps getting more obsessed and obsessed and suddenly at somewhere he finds his peace with himself, and starts advising us, to be humble and simply dance with the flow, as he once, used to do, as a whirling dervish and the man who made it a famous art.

the thing is that most of his poems are not simply translatable, or even easily understood in native Persian for example:

Glory to the gambler who lost all he had/nothing is left for him but the lust to gamble again.

if you ask chat-gpt about this poem it will think that it is a bout gambling addiction however the poem is essentially deeper than that, it basically says

'How lucky is the man who sacrificed all he had in the way of the thing/the person he loved, if given a chance he would do it once again'

this poem is basically a reference to himself, its about he lost his status, his teachings, and became a humble man, out of his obsession and (platonic) love for Shams and if given a chance Rumi would let goof his possessions once again.