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Rumi's Suggestions for the Peace of Humanity |
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Written by Hasan Ali Yurtsever, Rumi Forum
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
 "Out beyond the world of ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there." (Mevlana Jalaleddin Rumi)
If one had to point out the most striking and long-lasting of Rumi's ideas, it would be the transcendental nature of God and faith in Him. We are equally remote from him as created beings, and yet, as such, also equally close to Him. We live in a world of conflicts fomented by various religious figures of different faiths who attempt to claim a monopoly on closeness to God and on salvation. In such a world, Rumi's perception of God as the Unique Absolute Being who bestows his mercy on the created as He wishes is not an intellectual luxury, but a perception that needs to be adopted by all as the one of the basic precepts of their faith and activity. Internalizing the idea of a transcendental, all-merciful Creator is the only antidote to the divisiveness and alienation caused by religious fanaticism, hence a trait we should all attempt to achieve and raise the new generations with.[]
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