Rumi : Mystic and poet / Reynold A. Nicholson.

General Introduction
Preface
Introduction
Appendix
Prelude
The song of the reed
Remembered music
Love in Absence
"The marriage of true minds"
" A sleep and a Forgetting"
The grief of the dead
The Unregenerate
The burden of existence
The spirit of the saints
The children of light
Love, the Hierophant
The love of women
Divine beauty
" I turn toward Thee"
The truth within us
Mystics know
Asleep to the world
The faithful are one soul
The ladder to heaven
The true sufi
Nothing venture nothing win
The man who looked back on his way to hell
Spiritual churning
The blind follower
The birds of Solomon
The carnal soul
The beauty of death
A prayer for good behaviour
Communion with the saints
The man who fled from Azrael
"Omnes Eodem Cogimur"
Faith and works
"No monkery in Islam"
Do not travel alone
Fine features
The treasure-seeker
The mystic way
The sceptic
The evil in ourselves
The hierarchy of saints
The spiritual guide
The uses of tribulation
" The spirit helpeth our infirmity"
Unseen miracles
The reward of the righteous
The saint's vision of eternity
Beware of hurting the saint
The disinterested Cadi
Good words
"Here am I"
The soul of prayer
The friend who said "I"
God beyond praise
Knowledge is power
Our real names
Immediate knowledge
Tradition and Intuition
Feeling and thinking
Mystical perception
Love and fear
The ascending soul
The negative way
The spirit of the universe
The absolute
Fons Vitae
The purpose of creation
Divine providence
Causation
The divine factory
The world of time
Reality and appearance
God in nature
Amor Agitat Molem
Universal love
Man the Macrocosm
The perfect man
The witness to God
The mediator
Asceticism and Gnosis
"Die before death"
Mystical death and burial
Unity of spirit
creation of Phantasy
The magic of love
Phenomena the bridge to reality
The pear-tree of Illusion
Cosmic consciousness
The universal spirit revealed in prophets and saints
The standard-bearers of divine revelation
The mystery of evil
The law and the truth
The complete artist
The necessary foil
The relativity of evil
The soul of goodness in things evil'
The unseen power
Moral responsibility
"Whatsoever God wills shall come to pass"
Predestination and free-will
The wine of love
The riddles of God
The apology of Iblis
Love and Logic
The one true light
The twelve gospels
The shepherd's prayer
A rebuke to Bigots
Religious controversy
The Doctrine of reserve
Unknowing
The unitive state
The life everlasting
Does personality survive?
The soul of the world
Deification
The God-man
The spiritual ascension
The progress of man
"Ripeness is all"

I I hear nothing in my ear
But your voice,
Heart has plundered mind
Of its eloquence

Love writes a transplant
Calligraphy,so on
The empty page my soul
Can read and recollect

The Sufi mystic and poet Jalaliddin Rumi is most beloved for his writings which represent the ecstasies and Mysteries of life in all its forms-erotic, pltonic, divine- which are fresh and intense today as when they first written by this medieval, persian-born (present-day Afghanistan) poet and spiritual genius.