Rumi
The Rumi poem above is an ideal one to translate if you’re just learning Persian. Compared to other Rumi poems, most of which are extremely complex and difficult even for native speakers to translate, this poem is relatively straightforward. And if you don’t know Persian, you might try to see how many times you can locate the word to the left–pronounced “pedar” (which means “father”)–in Rumi’s verse…
Now that you’re reading the words of Rumi in the original Persian, you might also be interested in watching “The Willow Tree”–a classic Iranian film about a blind Rumi scholar. This film–by one of my favorite Iranian directors–will make you “see” things in a whole new light…though the Sufi message doesn’t fully land until the end…
