🔹Host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani 🔹Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi 🔹Music: @amirmohamdmonjezi What does it truly mean to love the Divine? In this episode, I explore “Discourse 1” of Shams Tabrizi’s Discourses (Maqālāt), a foundational figure in Persian Sufism and the spiritual guide of Rumi. Through poetic paradox and profound insight, Shams reveals that divine love is not an abstract idea, but a transformative experience—one that shatters logic and draws the soul toward union with the Beloved. I offer a detailed English interpretation that connects Shams’ timeless message to today’s spiritual and ethical questions. What does it mean to surrender the self? How can we distinguish between the temporal and the eternal in our daily lives? 📺 This episode is part of an ongoing video course I host: "Shams Tabrizi’s "Discourses" (Maqālāt). Join the course: [https://rumi-echoes-shop.fourthwall.com/] 🔹 Join Rumi's Echoes Telegram community: [https://t.me/RumiEchoes_OtherPhilosophies] 🔻 Read my recent publications: [https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani] 🔻Guiding Questions: 1. How might this discourse guide us in navigating today’s crises of faith and identity? 2. Do you agree with Shams' remarks on "self-sacrifice"? 3. How does Shams’ conception of love align or diverge from love as portrayed in other traditions? #PersianPoetry #MysticalPoetry #Sufism #SpiritualWisdom #ShamsTabrizi