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the light of the dawn. The same theme is repeated
(Rumi, 2013, 3140, Vol. 2) in some other poems by
referring to some verses Holy
Rumi says that as Jonah Quran, (Quran, 12: 19-20)
was imprisoned in the belly and the Bible: (Ref: Bible, The
of the fish, one’s spirit is Old Testament, Genesis 38: 28)
jailed in his body as far as ➢ In order that thou
one has not seen the light of mayst see that this
the truth. Rumi concludes that: world is a narrow well,
If it be a glorifier (of and that, like Joseph,
God), it is delivered from thou mayst grasp that
the fish; otherwise, it rope. (Rumi, 2013, 673,
becomes digested therein Vol. 4)
and vanishes. (Ibid, 3141, ➢ So that, when thou
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comest from the well
Analogously, before the (up) to the roof, the
abovementioned poems, Rumi Soul will say, “Oh,
uses Joseph and his pit and good news for met
prison as the symbols of the This is a youth for
human’s spirit and body me.” (Ibid, 674, Vol. 4)
respectively to advise that: It is clear that in all these
Thou art the Joseph of poems Rumi interprets religious
the time and the sun of terms as the symbols of
heaven: arise from this something else; though, contrary
pit and prison, and show to Tillich’s main idea, these
thy face. (Ibid, 3134, are not symbols of some
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unlimited transcendental reality.
