"Rumi is sitting by a fountain in a small square in Konya reading to students from his father’s dazzling spiritual diary, the Maarif. Shams breaks through the group and throws the invaluable text, along with other books on the pool’s edge, into the water. “Who are you and what are you doing?” asks Rumi.
“It is time for you to live what you’ve been reading,” replies Shams. Rumi turns to the books in the water. “We can retrieve them, if that’s what you want,” Shams says. “They will be perfectly dry, just as they were.” Shams lifts one out to show him. Dry.
“Let them stay,” Rumi responded."
Photo ~ A Family of Dervishes. Possibly Antoin Sevruguin (Armenian-Georgian, 1830s–1933). Iran, late 19th–early 20th century. Silver albumen photograph. Brooklyn Museum
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