What is Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi?
[[File:Shams_ud-Din_Tabriz_1502-1504_BNF_Paris.jpg|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shams_ud-Din_Tabriz_1502-1504_BNF_Paris.jpg|right|thumb|301x301px|A page of a copy circa 1503 of the ''Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi''. For details, see: Rumi ghazal 163.]] '''''Divan-i Kabir''''' ({{lang-fa|دیوان کبیر|italic=yes}}), also known as '''Divan-i Shams''' is a collection of poems written by the [[Persian people|Persian]] poet and [[Sufism|Sufi]] mystic [[Rumi]]. It is the collection of lyric poems written in the [[Persian language]], it contains more than 40,000 verses<ref>Foruzanfar, 1957.</ref> and over 3,000 [[Ghazal|ghazals]].<ref>Foruzanfar (tran. Sorkhabi), 2012, p. 183.</ref> == Origin == In 1244, Rumi met a Sufi [[dervish]] named Shams-i Tabrizi in [[Konya]],<ref>Gooch, 2017, p. 84.</ref> who became his spiritual teacher and introduced him to music and poetry. Shams left and returned a few times before disappearing, possibly being killed in 1248.<ref>Gooch, 2017, p. 149.</ref> Rumi wrote poetry about his love and loss for Shams after his disappearance. The poems were collected after Rumi's death by his students as the Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi. Most of the poems were written around 1247, after Shams' second disappearance. Some poems were written after Rumi confirmed Shams' death. Different editions of the Divan organize the poems differently, either by alphabet or by meter. The first printed copy of the Divan was made in Europe in 1838, but more accurate editions have been published since then based on original manuscripts.{{cn}} == Themes == The poems in Rumi's Divan are not just about teaching things like his [[Masnavi]] book is known for; instead, they express Rumi's deep philosophical ideas about love and longing. Some scholars believe that Rumi rejects longing in favor of unity with God because longing creates a separation between people and things outside themselves. This goes against Rumi’s belief in divine unity or [[tawhid]] found in Islam’s declaration that there is no other god but God (Shahada). Ac