Abstract

Mevlana Jalal-uddin Rumi, (1207-1273) a mystic, sufi, scholar and a poet, borned around eight centuries ago, contributed magnificently to promote humanity, love, peace, tolerance, compassion, respect to each other through education (sufisium, mysticism) and dialogue. Rumi strictly followed the Islamic teachings for building up peace in society as well as globally, as prophet PBUH says “You are all from Adam and Adam is created from earth. O servants of GOD be brothers and sisters“. To foster love, tolerance, peace and harmony, Rumi stressed for provoking education and interfaith dialogue b/w the peoples of different religions, as education is the only weapon which we can use to transform the world (Nelson Mandela) and the dialogue provides ultimate framework of mutual acceptance to each other’s identity along with existing rich diversity of culture and values. Therefore his message of interfaith universality is ruling without any religious discrimination and bias he says Rumi belongs to each one of them. His poetry and prose writings consist of spiritual content which is the universal language of the human soul. His magnum opus, masterpiece the Masnawi (collection of 25,668 couplets) captures the heart of spiritual lovers and seekers because of its truth, purity, divines and the concept of “oneness of GOD”. Rumi inculcates in his Masnawi,“All my couplets are a climate of wisdom, all these stories teach a lesson” he narrated “our Masnawi is a shop of divine oneness whatever you see there, other than one is a false idol” Rumi was completely lost in the love of GOD as a result ultimately blessed with the most noblest form of divine wisdom through reflection and intuition, he says “I have become a lover and most people realized it but they didn’t understand who is the one I Love”.

Highlights

  • Tolerance is the term which can be used in place of other words like patience, respect, mercy, generosity and forbearance; it’s the vital element of moral system for living together in this world by respecting each other’s faith, cultures, languages, values, norms and rights

  • Mevlana Rumi strongly believed and associates the societal peace with the individual inner peace of mind and for promoting individual peace, Rumi expressed it through his SAMA i.e whirling dervish, in which he demonstrate about the raising of holy spirit, the human being is turn his face to visualize the ultimate truth, for finding inner peace and happiness in the divine love and mercy of Allah swt

  • Inequalities in the Opportunities for Civic and Political Participation. This form of inequality is rarely discussed at international platform, perhaps because of its complexity and sensitivity; it is the people’s democratic right to elect the respective candidates through a proper electoral process

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Introduction

Tolerance is the term which can be used in place of other words like patience, respect, mercy, generosity and forbearance; it’s the vital element of moral system for living together in this world by respecting each other’s faith, cultures, languages, values, norms and rights. Mevlana Rumi strongly believed and associates the societal peace with the individual inner peace of mind and for promoting individual peace, Rumi expressed it through his SAMA i.e (spiritual dance) whirling dervish, in which he demonstrate about the raising of holy spirit, the human being is turn his face to visualize the ultimate truth, for finding inner peace and happiness in the divine love and mercy of Allah swt He humbly surrender himself in front of Allah swt, purify the soul, during SAMA, the dervish’s arms are widely open, with his right arm turned to the sky, and through left arm turned down, in the way distributing to Man what they receive from God [7,8,9]. The unequal distribution of income among individuals at the local or national level, is considered to be the most important way to measure the degree of equality or inequality existing in a society, to overcome this existing bias a proper distribution of income is required to start small and large projects to capture the economic opportunities, this decrease the unemployment rate, and creates civil tolerance for peoples to live together [12,13]

Methods
Inequalities in the Distribution of Property Assets
Inequalities to Access Quality Education
Inequalities in the Opportunities for Civic and Political Participation
Social Impacts of Successful Dialogue
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