Immortal Echoes, Mortal Words

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...

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...

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 Guiding Questions: 1. "God is First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward." How might this reshape our understanding of divine presence in the world and within ourselves? 2. How do Ibn Arabi’s views challenge or complement the idea that God can be approached intellectually versus spiritually or experi...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi The following guiding questions will help you navigate the episode: Ibn Arabi says, "The Real has permeated existence, and is present in every being to the degree that the reality of that being requires." What implications does this have in our social, religious, (political?!), and environmental life? If...

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...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi The following guiding questions will help you navigate the episode: Ibn Arabi says, "The Real 'gave existence' to coming into beings through His Essence.' What implications does this claim convey? What does Ibn Arabi's use of the word zuhur, "emergence/emanation/appearance," have over a "creation"? What...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi Unveiling one of the most profound and subtle teachings in Sufi Metaphysics—this episode of Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam dives into Ibn ʿArabī’s conception of “universal realities” (umūr kulliyya)—shortly translated as “universals.” This metaphysical topic bridges the divine Essence (Dhāt) and cosmos, revealing the st...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi Study Guide for Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam: Before engaging with Ibn ʿArabī’s text, understanding his thought is beneficial: - His Intellectual Landscape: Ibn ʿArabī’s ideas draw from the Qur’an, Ḥadīth, Sufi metaphysics, Neoplatonism, and Islamic theology. Familiarity with these traditions helps. - The...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi Ep.1. Ibn Arabi’s Fusus al-Hikam, Preface (Khuṭba) Ep.2. Ibn Arabi’s "Fixed Entities" (aʿyan al-thabita) Ep.3. Ibn Arabi’s "Unity of Existence" (Wahdat al-Wujud) 4. Ch1.E3. Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam, Faṣṣ One: Wisdom of Adam My latest book: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Prese...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi Ep.1. Ibn Arabi’s Fusus al-Hikam, Preface (Khuṭba) Ep.2. Ibn Arabi’s "Fixed Entities" (aʿyan al-thabita) Ep.3. Ibn Arabi’s "Unity of Existence" (Wahdat al-Wujud) My latest book: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both di...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani & Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi The poem and translation: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/rumi-ghazal-1824 In this episode of the Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, we explore Rumi’s vision of love, surrender, and spiritual transformation through Ghazal 1824 from the Divan-i Shams Tabrizi. For Rumi, the Bel...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani & Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In this episode of the Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, we explore the intense mystical love Rumi presents in ghazal 1844 of the Divan. This poem is a powerful guide for those seeking to understand love, which demands surrender of the self before the Beloved and the courage...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani & Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi The poem and its translation: [https://immortal-echoes-mortal-words-shop.fourthwall.com/pages/fayz-ghazal-931] In this episode of the Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, we explore Fayḍ Kāshānī’s electrifying ghazal 931, a masterpiece that reveals the burning intensity of divin...

Host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Dr. Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi Persian poetry and mysticism reach a profound philosophical depth in Fayḍ Kāshānī’s Mishwāq, where he interprets symbols such as face and tress, wine and cupbearer, mole and eye, clarifying the metaphysics of Divine Beauty, Majesty,...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi Love, in Persian mystical poetry, is never merely an emotion—it is a radical path of transformation. In this episode of the Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, we recite and interpret Fayḍ Kāshānī’s Ghazal 288 from his Diwan, where he proclaims: “Not for a moment am I heedless—love demands this.” Through Fa...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In this episode of Ibn Arabi Podcast, I continue examining his conception of imagination (khayāl) and the in-between (barzakh). Drawing from Ibn ʿArabī’s metaphysical vision, as interpreted in Chapter Seven (“The In-Between”) of William Chittick’s book Ibn ʿArabī Heir to Prophets, I explain how divine Es...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Music: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi Step into the mystical world of Mulla Muhsin Fayz Kashani, a 17th-century Persian philosopher and poet, as we explore the gradual transformation of the self through divine love in ghazal 824 from his Divan. This episode reveals how spiritual awakening happens "gradually, gradually", guiding the soul to...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Music: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi  Guiding Inference Questions: Why does the poem begin with such vivid and detailed descriptions of the beloved's form? What does this suggest about the role of beauty in spiritual love? Why is the lover burning through the night into the day—what does this burning symbolize? How is this fire different...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Music: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi Step into the mystical rose garden of Persian Sufism through Gulshan-i Rāz (The Rose Garden of Mystery) by Mahmoud Shabistari—one of the most profound Sufi poetic works in classical Persian literature. In this episode, I delve into Shabistari’s poetic responses to complex metaphysical questions on divi...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In this episode of Ibn ʿArabī Podcast, I explain his “theophanic imagination,” the “creative heart,” and the “conjoined & autonomous Imagination,” drawing on Henry Corbin’s seminal study Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ʿArabī. Ibn ʿArabī presents imagination as an ontological faculty throug...

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Music: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi ⁠ What does it mean to bid “farewell to the tavern,” to “die as an orphaned pearl,” and to transcend societal norms through mystical poetry? In this episode of the Persian Poetry Podcast, I examine the profound mystical and philosophical layers of Shahriar Tabrizi’s celebrated poem “Farewell to the Tav...