{"id":284040,"date":"2025-01-06T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=284040"},"modified":"2025-01-01T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T10:37:29","slug":"poem-of-the-atoms-sufi-mysticism-music-video-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/01\/poem-of-the-atoms-sufi-mysticism-music-video-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Atoms | Sufi Mysticism (Music Video of the Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Music Composition: Armand Amar &#8211; With Subtitles<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rumi-1-e1593334935467.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rumi-1-e1593334935467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A Poem That Speaks to the Soul<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi, better known simply as Rumi, was perhaps the greatest Sufi mystic and the finest Persian poet of all time. He had a great influence on Muslim writing and culture. It is believed that Rumi would turn round and round while reciting his poetry, and it is this dance which formed the basis for the <em>Whirling Dervishes,<\/em> after his death. Dervish means doorway, and the dance is believed to be a mystical portal between the earthly and cosmic worlds.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RUMI | Poem of the Atoms (Subtitles) | Sufi Mysticism\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IdhOsfVtWEA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>LYRICS<\/strong><br \/>\nO day, arise! The atoms are dancing<br \/>\nThanks to Him the universe is dancing<br \/>\nThe souls are dancing, overcome with ecstasy<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll whisper in your ear where their dance is taking them<br \/>\nAll the atoms in the air and in the desert know well, they are in a frenzy<br \/>\nEvery single atom, happy or miserable<br \/>\nBecomes enamored of the sun, of which nothing can be said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Poem That Speaks to the Soul &#8211; Rumi was perhaps the greatest Sufi mystic and the finest Persian poet of all time. He would turn round and round while reciting his poetry, which formed the basis for the Whirling Dervishes, after his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[634,642,3027,2007,308,868,2006,2237],"class_list":["post-284040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video-of-the-week","tag-islam","tag-literature","tag-mysticism","tag-persia","tag-philosophy","tag-poetry","tag-rumi","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284040"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284047,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284040\/revisions\/284047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}