News at Eleven: Many of Rumi's lyrical ghazals express

an almost psychedelic perceptivity that makes his imagery so distinctive and attractive ("Light would soak the world entire/as once it did on Sinai's Mount/if I reveal the ecstasy/of my heart's fabliaux . . . from ghazal 2789). But Rumi's mysticism was informed by the Qur'an and praxis in the Sufi tradition, as well as a penetrating vision into the pre-prismatic realm

from The Guardian: Rumi's Masnavi, part 8: Echoes of celestial music

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