Immortal Echoes, Mortal Words

Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In this episode of Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, we explore Rumi’s Ghazal 1776, a powerful masterpiece of Persian poetry, Sufism, divine love, and spiritual wisdom, entering Rumi’s mystical...

Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi   Fayz Kashani, Divan, ghazal 371, in The Soul-Counquering Love, pages 121-122. Order the Book: The Soul-Conquering Love in Fayz Kashani’s Poetry: Translations and Annotations (Persian and Eng...

Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi This documentary explores the profound, emotional, and spiritual universe of Shahriar Tabrizi, one of the most influential voices of modern Persian poetry. It illustrates Shahriar’s passages f...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In the Wisdom of Abraham, Ibn Arabi explores how the divine reality becomes knowable through created existence while always exceeding it. Abraham, named al-Khalīl (“the intimate friend”), symbolizes "mutual indwelling" (permeation): God is manifest in creation, and creation reveals God. The chapter grapp...

Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast Host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi Fayz Kashani, Divan, ghazal 833, in The Soul-Counquering Love, pages 140-142. Order the Book: The Soul-Conquering Love in Fayz Kashani’s Poetry: Translations and Annotations (Persian and English); available for in print and digital formats:  https://immortalechoes.or...

Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi What gives us the right to speak about God, truth, or even wisdom? In this powerful discourse, Shams Tabrizi confronts the arrogance that can hide behind even the most religious or scholarly w...

Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi What if the people who challenge you the most show you who you truly are? In this episode, I explore Shams Tabrizi's powerful metaphor about mirrors, truth, and the courage it takes to confron...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In the Wisdom of Abraham, Ibn Arabi explores how the divine reality becomes knowable through created existence while always exceeding it. Abraham, named al-Khalīl (“the intimate friend”), symbolizes "mutual indwelling" (permeation): God is manifest in creation, and creation reveals God. The chapter grapp...

🔹Host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani 🔹 Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast   عشقست اصل بندگی من بنده و مولای عشق عشقست آب زندگی من بنده و مولای عشق Love is the essence of servitude, I am the servant and love is the master, Love is the water of life—I am the servant, and love is the master. عشقست جان جان جان از عشق شد پیدا جهان عشقست پیدا و نهان من بنده و مولای عشق Love is the soul of the soul of the soul,...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In the Wisdom of Abraham, Ibn Arabi explores how the divine reality becomes knowable through created existence while always exceeding it. Abraham, named al-Khalīl (“the intimate friend”), symbolizes "mutual indwelling" (permeation): God is manifest in creation, and creation reveals God. The chapter grapp...

🔹Host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani 🔹Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi   How does Shams Tabrizi unveil the path to divine truth? In this episode of the Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, I examine Shams's Discourses (Maqālāt), exploring his complex identity beyond the common labels of "dervish" or "illiterate."    My latest books: 🔹The Soul-Conquering Love in Fayz Kashani’s Poetry: Translations and Annotati...

Part of Spirituality in War Documentary (coming soon) Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Who is the main enemy in #war? Do people surprise themselves in war?   My latest books: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/o...

Part of Spirituality in War Documentary (coming soon) Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi During #war, how should anger and compassion be calibrated? When is anger good?   My latest books: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes....

Part of Spirituality in War Documentary (Coming soon) Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi What role does mourning play through memories of loss? In this episode, I answer these questions from a #Shii #Islam perspective.   My latest books: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both d...

Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi Ghazal 1631 from Rumi's Divan is an invitation to divine intoxication, where logic drowns, and love reigns supreme. The wine of the soul flows freely, awakening those who are asleep to the sec...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In the Wisdom of Abraham, Ibn Arabi explores how the divine reality becomes knowable through created existence while always exceeding it. Abraham, named al-Khalīl (“the intimate friend”), symbolizes "mutual indwelling" (permeation): God is manifest in creation, and creation reveals God. The chapter grapp...

Spirituality in War Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi In this video, I explore how suffering—especially in severe situations like war—can lead to elevation. Drawing on Rumi’s teachings, I show how certain forms of intense suffering, when approached with the right perspective, can become constructive rather than destructive.    My latest books: Sarayān: The Real...

Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In this episode of the Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, I analyze ghazal 69 from Rumi's Divan. In this poem, haunted and maddened by divine love, Rumi turns to his divine Beloved, asking Him t...

Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In this episode of the Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, I analyze ghazal 69 from Rumi's Divan. In this poem, haunted and maddened by divine love, Rumi turns to his divine Beloved, asking Him t...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi Ibn Arabi’s Fusus al-Hikam: The Holy Wisdom of Enoch (Idris) | Divine Eminence & Unity in Multiplicity In this video, I offer a commentary on “The Holy Wisdom (al-Hikmat al-Qudūsiyyah) in the Essence of Enoch (Idrīs)”—a chapter where Ibn Arabi reveals the essential nature of Divine Eminence (ʿUluww)...

Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi What happens when love transcends reason, logic, and even the fear of death? In this episode, we explore Rumi’s Masnavi narrative of the exiled servant whose longing for his king isa metaphor for the soul’s yearning for the...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi Ibn Arabi’s Fusus al-Hikam: The Holy Wisdom of Enoch (Idris) | Divine Eminence & Unity in Multiplicity In this video, I offer a commentary on “The Holy Wisdom (al-Hikmat al-Qudūsiyyah) in the Essence of Enoch (Idrīs)”—a chapter where Ibn Arabi reveals the essential nature of Divine Eminence (ʿUluww)...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In this episode of the Shi‘i Mysticism Podcast, we explore one of the most beloved poems in Persian literature about Imam Ali: Humāy-i Raḥmat (The Auspicious Bird of Mercy) by Shahriar Tabrizi, explaining the poem’s mystical, philosophical, and spiritual insights. In this remarkable ghazal, Shahriar pres...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In this video series, I examine Ibn Arabi's chapter on Seth through the commentators. Every reception discloses the receiver’s ontological capacity. The mirror image, the two bricks, the hierarchy of seals, and the paradox of knowing and not knowing are not metaphors but technical claims about how manife...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In this video series, I examine Ibn Arabi's chapter on Seth through the commentators. Every reception discloses the receiver’s ontological capacity. The mirror image, the two bricks, the hierarchy of seals, and the paradox of knowing and not knowing are not metaphors but technical claims about how manife...