Immortal Echoes, Mortal Words

Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani

Our podcasts: Ibn Arabi Podcast, Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, Shiʿi Mysticism (ʿIrfān) Podcast, and Islamic and Neoplatonic Metaphysics Podcast. Hosts: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani; Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki

  1. 2d ago

    Rumi: "To You, Love, Belongs My Being" | Ghazal 1776 | Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast

    Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In this episode of Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, we explore Rumi’s Ghazal 1776, a powerful masterpiece of Persian poetry, Sufism, divine love, and spiritual wisdom, entering Rumi’s mystical-philosophical vision of Love as the source, guide, judge, healer, and final destination of the soul. My latest books: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press The Soul-Conquering Love in Fayz Kashani’s Poetry: Translations and Annotations (Persian and English); available for in print and digital formats: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press   Visit our ⁠Academy of Mystic Poetics and Philosophy⁠, and check out our courses: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses If you enjoy the content and wish to ⁠support our work⁠, your generosity helps us continue creating: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations Watch more from Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HHJERERmZ7fn8cYrLJOzvqy&si=m5l2JJfTOLetqpST  Watch more from our Ibn Arabi Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat My recent publications: https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani   #PersianPoetry #Rumi #MysticalPoetry #Sufism #SpiritualWisdom

    22 min
  2. Jun 29

    Shahriar Tabrizi Documentary: From Human to Divine #Love

    Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi This documentary explores the profound, emotional, and spiritual universe of Shahriar Tabrizi, one of the most influential voices of modern Persian poetry. It illustrates Shahriar’s passages from earthly longing and heartbreak to transcendent love, ethical reflection, and mystical awakening. These poems—rooted in human suffering, nostalgia, and reverence—reveal how Persian mystical literature bridges personal loss with spiritual wisdom. Shahriar’s verses, whether mourning his mother in “Ey Vaay Maadaram,” yearning for childhood in “Khaan Nana,” remembering home in “Haydar-Baaba,” or contemplating divine perfections and proximity in “Ali, Ey Humaa‑yi Rahmat,” speak powerfully to today’s struggles with identity, grief, belonging, and the quest for meaning. His poetry invites us to reflect on love as a transformative force, guiding us from the fragility of human attachment to the vastness of spiritual insight. Watch this documentary on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GtJvIXieGs8    My latest books: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press The Soul-Conquering Love in Fayz Kashani’s Poetry: Translations and Annotations (Persian and English); available for in print and digital formats: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press   Visit our ⁠Academy of Mystic Poetics and Philosophy⁠, and check out our courses: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses If you enjoy the content and wish to ⁠support our work⁠, your generosity helps us continue creating: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations Watch more from Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HHJERERmZ7fn8cYrLJOzvqy&si=m5l2JJfTOLetqpST  Watch more from our Ibn Arabi Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat My recent publications: https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani   #Shahriar #Shahriyar #PersianPoetry #MysticalPoetry #Sufism #SpiritualWisdom #Iran #Tabriz #Nature #PersianPoem

    35 min
  3. Jun 26

    Ch5. E4/4. Ibn Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam (Seals of Wisdom), Wisdom of Abraham

    Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In the Wisdom of Abraham, Ibn Arabi explores how the divine reality becomes knowable through created existence while always exceeding it. Abraham, named al-Khalīl (“the intimate friend”), symbolizes "mutual indwelling" (permeation): God is manifest in creation, and creation reveals God. The chapter grapples with paradoxes of agency, knowledge, praise, and responsibility, asking how humans both depend on the Real and serve as loci in which divine Names appear. Its central concern is to show that divine transcendence and immanence are not opposites but intertwined dimensions of a single, dynamic relationship between the Real and the human knower. My latest book: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press Visit our ⁠Academy of Mystic Poetics and Philosophy⁠, and check out our courses: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses If you enjoy the content and wish to ⁠support our work⁠, your generosity helps us continue creating: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations Watch more from our Ibn Arabi Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat My recent publications: https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani #IbnArabi #Sufism #SpiritualWisdom #FususAlHikam #Tasawwuf #MysticalTheology

    18 min
  4. Jun 22

    Shams Tabrizi | Discourse 3: "Who Speaks of God?"

    Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi What gives us the right to speak about God, truth, or even wisdom? In this powerful discourse, Shams Tabrizi confronts the arrogance that can hide behind even the most religious or scholarly words. He asks: "Do you truly understand what you’re saying—or are you just repeating inherited words without tasting their truth?" In this video, I explore Shams’ warning that sacred speech demands purity, not pride; that quoting hadith and Qur’an without real understanding is like wearing borrowed clothes. My latest books: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press The Soul-Conquering Love in Fayz Kashani’s Poetry: Translations and Annotations (Persian and English); available for in print and digital formats: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press   Visit our ⁠Academy of Mystic Poetics and Philosophy⁠, and check out our courses: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses If you enjoy the content and wish to ⁠support our work⁠, your generosity helps us continue creating: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations Watch more from Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HHJERERmZ7fn8cYrLJOzvqy&si=m5l2JJfTOLetqpST  Watch more from our Ibn Arabi Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat My recent publications: https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani   #ShamsTabrizi #shams_tabrizi #Iran #Sufism #PersianPoetry #PersianPoem

    6 min
  5. Jun 18

    Shams Tabrizi | Discourse 2: "The Mirror of the Ego"

    Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast Producer and host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi What if the people who challenge you the most show you who you truly are? In this episode, I explore Shams Tabrizi's powerful metaphor about mirrors, truth, and the courage it takes to confront our ego. Shams teaches us that facing criticism is the first step toward self-knowledge and spiritual growth. Topics explored: - Why we break the mirrors that show our flaws - The real meaning of justice in Shams' view - How to receive criticism as a path to growth - Becoming a mirror for others—with honesty and love  My latest books: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press The Soul-Conquering Love in Fayz Kashani’s Poetry: Translations and Annotations (Persian and English); available for in print and digital formats: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press   Visit our ⁠Academy of Mystic Poetics and Philosophy⁠, and check out our courses: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses If you enjoy the content and wish to ⁠support our work⁠, your generosity helps us continue creating: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations Watch more from Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HHJERERmZ7fn8cYrLJOzvqy&si=m5l2JJfTOLetqpST  Watch more from our Ibn Arabi Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat My recent publications: https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani   #Persianpoetry #ShamsTabrizi #Sufism #mysticalPoetry #spiritualWisdom #justice #poetry #iran #IslamicPhilosophy

    4 min
  6. May 22

    Ch5. E3/4. Ibn Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam (Seals of Wisdom), Wisdom of Abraham

    Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani Music: Amirmohammad Monjezi: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmohamdmonjezi In the Wisdom of Abraham, Ibn Arabi explores how the divine reality becomes knowable through created existence while always exceeding it. Abraham, named al-Khalīl (“the intimate friend”), symbolizes "mutual indwelling" (permeation): God is manifest in creation, and creation reveals God. The chapter grapples with paradoxes of agency, knowledge, praise, and responsibility, asking how humans both depend on the Real and serve as loci in which divine Names appear. Its central concern is to show that divine transcendence and immanence are not opposites but intertwined dimensions of a single, dynamic relationship between the Real and the human knower. My latest book: Sarayān: The Real’s Permeation: Ibn ʿArabi on the Divine Presence in the Cosmos with Neoplatonic Insights (available in both digital and print formats): https://immortalechoes.org/pages/our-press Visit our ⁠Academy of Mystic Poetics and Philosophy⁠, and check out our courses: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/courses If you enjoy the content and wish to ⁠support our work⁠, your generosity helps us continue creating: https://immortalechoes.org/pages/donations Watch more from our Ibn Arabi Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkz7b_183HG0qkYvbH9dyTAWnncKZGLp&si=sCNGBNjB7RRRIZat My recent publications: https://istanbul.academia.edu/RasoulRahbariGhazani #IbnArabi #Sufism #SpiritualWisdom #FususAlHikam #Tasawwuf #MysticalTheology

    21 min

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Our podcasts: Ibn Arabi Podcast, Persian Mystical Poetry Podcast, Shiʿi Mysticism (ʿIrfān) Podcast, and Islamic and Neoplatonic Metaphysics Podcast. Hosts: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani; Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki