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Rumi

[ Persian roo-mee ]

noun

  1. Ja·lal ud-din [jah-, lahl, ood-, deen, oo, d-, ja-]. Jalal ud-din Rumi.


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It will be controversial for me to say it, but the poetry of one of our most famous poets, Rumi, is about love for another man as an example of his love for God.

Grindinger didn’t take her usual lunch break that day, so she wasn’t able to check in on Rumi, the 14-month-old mixed-breed pup she adopted in August 2020.

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Popular promoter Ladyfag restarted her monthly Sunday night Battle Hymn party at Rumi event space in Chelsea on May 30, and it sold out so quickly that she quickly added a bunch more dates—weekly, not monthly.

The other night, quite by chance, I came across some lines in Rumi, the 13th-century poet—a Sufi mystic from Persia.

Stewart quotes the Persian poet Rumi who was born in contemporary Afghanistan.

Rumi Khan was present, but made no answer, till the king looking angrily at him, he said his silence proceeded from contempt.

Rumi Khan used every effort, backed by his numerous army, to drive the Portuguese from his entrenchments, but unsuccessfully.

“Caballer el rumi” has a pleasant sound, even when uttered by a man who, in his heart, thinks you a Christian dog.

She sang by heart the little story drawn from the writing of Jalalu'd dinu'r Rumi.

He threw out patrols which were unable to contact any Rumi on the Dust Bin side of the river.

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