The Masnavī-yi Maʿnavī, “spiritual couplets”, composed by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī in the thirteenth century, weaves stories, commentary and teaching into some twenty-five thousand verses. It opens with the reed flute lamenting its separation from the reed-bed, an image of the soul’s longing for God.
Masnavī
Rūmī’s great poem in six books of rhyming couplets, called the Qurʾān in Persian.
Also: Masnavi, Mathnawi