{"id":936,"date":"2025-05-20T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=936"},"modified":"2025-05-27T08:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:18:15","slug":"rumi-on-divine-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"Rumi on Divine Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis died in April 2025. During his tenure as head of the Catholic Church, he worked hard to build bridges between Christians and Muslims. To honor his memory, this presentation explores Rumi&#8217;s insights on religious diversity and tolerance. Rumi sees an inherent unity among all messengers of God (and faith traditions by extension). He likens messengers of God to lamps, and their teachings to light:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u062f\u064e\u0647 \u0686\u0631\u0627\u063a \u0627\u064e\u0631\u0652 \u062d\u0627\u0636\u0631 \u0622\u06cc\u062f \u062f\u0631 \u0645\u06a9\u0627\u0646\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>\u0647\u0631 \u06cc\u06a9\u06cc \u0628\u0627\u0634\u062f \u0628\u0635\u0648\u0631\u062a\u0652 \u063a\u06cc\u0631\u0650 \u0622\u0646<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0641\u064e\u0631\u0642 \u0646\u064e\u062a\u0652\u0648\u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u0631\u062f \u0646\u0648\u0631\u0650 \u0647\u0631 \u06cc\u06a9\u06cc<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u0686\u0648\u0646 \u0628\u0647 \u0646\u0648\u0631\u064e\u0634 \u0631\u0648\u06cc\u0652 \u0622\u0631\u06cc\u060c \u0628\u06cc\u200c\u0634\u06a9\u06cc<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you put ten lamps in a room, each lamp may have a unique shape and form. The lamps are different, but the light is the same: it comes from Beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7607\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/04-25-2025.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7607','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/04-25-2025.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/04-25-2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=936-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/04-25-2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"04-25-2025.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis died in April 2025. During his tenure as head of the Catholic Church, he worked hard to build bridges between Christians and Muslims. To honor his memory, this presentation explores Rumi&#8217;s insights on religious diversity and tolerance. Rumi sees an inherent unity among all messengers of God (and faith traditions by extension). He likens messengers of God to lamps, and their teachings to light:<\/p>\n<p>\u062f\u064e\u0647 \u0686\u0631\u0627\u063a \u0627\u064e\u0631\u0652 \u062d\u0627\u0636\u0631 \u0622\u06cc\u062f \u062f\u0631 \u0645\u06a9\u0627\u0646\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u0647\u0631 \u06cc\u06a9\u06cc \u0628\u0627\u0634\u062f \u0628\u0635\u0648\u0631\u062a\u0652 \u063a\u06cc\u0631\u0650 \u0622\u0646<\/p>\n<p>\u0641\u064e\u0631\u0642 \u0646\u064e\u062a\u0652\u0648\u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u0631\u062f \u0646\u0648\u0631\u0650 \u0647\u0631 \u06cc\u06a9\u06cc\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u0686\u0648\u0646 \u0628\u0647 \u0646\u0648\u0631\u064e\u0634 \u0631\u0648\u06cc\u0652 \u0622\u0631\u06cc\u060c \u0628\u06cc\u200c\u0634\u06a9\u06cc<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you put ten lamps in a room, each lamp may have a unique shape and form. The lamps are different, but the light is the same: it comes from Beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7608\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/04-25-2025.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7608','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/04-25-2025.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/04-25-2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=936-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/04-25-2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"04-25-2025.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaith","category-mysticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}