Masnawi Sacred Texts Of Islam Bok Five Masnawi Sacred Texts Of Islam Bok Five - Mevlana Celaledin-i Rumi The Bok Five of the Masnavi must be read in order to understand the other first Four volumes. It also includes popular tragedies from the local bazar to fictions, misrepresentations from Rumi’s season: Legend I: The Seer and his Heretic Tenant Legend I: The Arab and his Dog Legend I: The Sage and the Peacock Legend IV: Muhamad Khwarazm King and the Rafizis of Sabzawar Legend V: The Man who claimed to be a Seer Legend VI: The Zealot who blindly imitated his Shaikh Legend VI: How Adam was created out of a some of fill brought by an Dream Legend VI: Mahmud and Ayaz Legend IX: The sincere repentance of Nasuh Legend PLACE: Lion, the Pooch, and the As Legend XI: The Mosalman who tried to convert a Magian Legend XI: The Devote who broke the noble`s wine-jar. The Masnavi is divided into six boks, and Rumi wrote prefaces for each bok. The earliestcomplete manuscript (the "Konya manuscript") was completed in December, 1278 (five years after Rumi`s cessation). • Boks 1 and 2: They “are principaly concerned with the nafs, the lower unchaste self, and its self-deception and evil bents. ” • Boks 3 and 4: These boks share the principal texts of Reason and Knowledge. These two texts are personified by Rumi in the Doctrinal and Quranic figure of the Seer Moses. • Boks 5 and 6: These last two boks are joined by the universal ideal that man must deny his physical earthly rat race to understand Jehovah’s rat race.