An Introduction Who was Rumi? Sufism and Islam God and the World Universal Man The Fall The Trust Union with God The Nafs Knowledge and Method The Limitations of Rational Knowledge

slide 10 of 11 “I said to my heart, ‘How is it My heart, that in foolishness You are barred from the service Of Him whose name you bless?’ My heart replied, ‘You do wrong To misread me in this way, I am constant in His service, You are the one astray.’” —Rumi “To know the heart in its inmost essence is to know God, and to the degree that one truly knows God, one is not other than He, for a being defined by relativity cannot know the Absolute. To know God, one must ‘become’ God, by ceasing to exist in that mode of being which separates man from Him, or by no longer being defined by the limitations of that state.”