Divine Lover

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, The world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense."
"Study me as much as you like, you will never know me,
for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.
Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself,
For I have chose to dwell in a place you cannot see."


~ Mevlana Rumi in Divan of Shams i Tabrizi
Art ~ "This powerful portrait of Rumi shared in this post, thanks to artist 'Zed' is unlike any other portrait of Mevlana Rumi that I have seen. Many have tried representing him before (for comparison the links of other artists' rendering of Rumi is given at the end of this post), but Zed's inspiring work that which 'came' through him holds something special.
In all the previous representations of Rumi, he is always an old, somewhat sad looking old person; while he being such a powerful Ashik, Divine Lover, was anything but. Rumi, who possessed a blessed laughing heart can best be portrayed with a laughter of spiritual magnetism which is wonderfully done here.
Rumi was the vessel Shams had looked for for a very long time to pour light into. There is a stillness to the piece and a quiet joy of completion about Rumi that needed to be said. No, it DEMANDED to be spoken in a way that satisfied the voice in the artists heart. Its very graceful and healing to see that Rumi is holding water in his hand in this piece. Such a sacred symbol! Indeed his fountain of inspiration is still quenching thirst to so many lovers at heart."
~ Sadiq M. Alam, Technology of the Heart