The Art Project of Selected Bilingual Poems of Rumi

The society that is engulfed in spiritual chaos and intellectual agitation always searches for a roadmap leading to prosperity. Rumi has addressed the need 800 years ago.

Every man from any religion and cultural background is able to take his own share from this sea of thought.

Thus, his solutions and strategies address the difficulties, deviations, chaos and challenges with which the mankind is grappling.

Rumi cannot be reduced to cultural, racial and historical clichés and this is why if his poems are rendered rightly to any language every man in any place across the world can take advantage of them to establish a better relationship with God, self, mankind and the universe. They also lead the mankind to true peace and prosperity in life.

The art project of common human culture includes 30 works of selected poems of Rumi on such themes as

- Love of God

- Worldly life

- Divine Providence

- Livelihood

- Supplication and Worshipping

- Thanksgiving

- Patience

- Effort and Struggle

- Hope

The English translations of Nicholson and Barks are the basis of this collection.

The translations of Nicholson and Barks are the best available renditions of Rumi’s poetry which have succeeded to present a major part of the mental notions of Rumi using a literary dexterity.

The main goal of this art project is addressing the need of those audience who are not familiar with Rumi’s mother tongue and this work allows them to have a selection of Rumi’s poems in the form of artwork in their life setting just like the works of the Al Qasidah project.

Thus, the International Art Gallery announces its readiness for the implementation of this art project with the collaboration of the interested parties, institutions, Rumi societies and artistic-literary centers.