SUFI POET'S MESSAGE OF LOVE STILL RESONATES (article)

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The Seattle Times, May 5, 2007

SUFI POET'S MESSAGE OF LOVE STILL RESONATES

"Mohammad Nooraee knew exactly what he needed when Brandeis University students asked him to distill the essence of Sufism, an Islamic mystical tradition.
Nooraee, director of the Nimatullahi Sufi order in Boston, needed "Grapes," a poem by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, the 13th century poet and mystic. The poem describes an argument among four wise men who all want grapes but don't know it because they speak different languages. The lesson: People must understand each other or be lost to bickering..."

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