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by Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi · c. 1258–1273 · Persian
About 25,000 couplets of stories, parables and Quranic interpretation about the soul's longing to return to God, opening with the lament of the reed flute. Rumi dictated it to his disciple Husam al-Din Chalabi.
A six-book Sufi poem of spiritual stories, called 'the Quran in Persian'; Iqbal called Rumi his spiritual guide.