Rumi’s Masnavi: Knowledge and certainty

Franklin Lewis is associate professor of Persian in the department of near eastern languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago.

The sun itself is proof the sun exists!
Seek your proofs, but don’t turn your face from it.

Masnavi 1: 116

The Islamic tradition Rumi inherited placed high value on the acquisition of knowledge, or “science” (‛ilm) through scholarship.

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