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When Moses arrived at the like Moses’ then not only fire
sacred tree in “Wadi Ayman” cannot annihilate you, but on
(Valley of Right Hand), he the contrary make you
saw that its fire is becoming livelier and more delightful.
more and more illuminating. Moreover, although the tree
Then from the right hand of is a symbol of humans, since
the valley a voice was heard in such a high position it has
saying that, “I am the Lord of absorbed in divine essence
the world.” and made pure from any
The interesting point is imperfection, it can also be a
that here not only do we seem symbol of the ultimate concern
to be dealing with symbolic and cries that I am God.
language; but also with symbolic In this section, it is worth
entities: the sacred tree is a mentioning some of Rumi’s
symbol of unlimited existence poems in which he explicitly
of God, and its flourishing speaks about the symbolic
fire is a symbol of His language of the Quran. In the
manifestations. fifth volume of “Masnavi” he
Rumi, however, has taken composed the following poems
the “tree” as a symbol of about the abbreviated letters
human existence. He first of the Quran:
proclaims that if you relieve ➢ This Alif-Lám-Mím and
yourself from selfishness and Há-Mím, O father, have
self-centeredness, the tree of come from the presence
your existence will consequently of the Lord of
ascend to the heavens; such Mankind. (Rumi, 2013,
that if you reach a position 1316, Vol. 5)
