Here the inner world is presenrted in the light of the principles learnt in the Garden. The guide for this stage is the Soul of India (Chapter 76), which leads to the saint Mujaddid (Chapter 90).
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76.
The Soul of India: On Saturn, which is the sixth
stop in the spiritual journey, Rumi and Iqbal see traitors
Mir Jafar and Mir Sadiq punished in an ocean of blood after
they were refused by hell. The soul of India appears in chains.
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77. Nietzsche and Sharfunisa:
As Rumi and Iqbal move “beyond the skies”, philosopher
Nietzsche appears to be stranded on the border while a woman
from Punjab who desired to combine truth with power has got
a palace in Paradise |
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78. Kausar: In
Paradise, Rumi and Iqbal meet the Sufi master Syed Ali Hamadani,
and poets Ghani of Kashmir and Bhartari Hari on the bank of
the sacred stream of Kausar |
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79. Enlightenment:
In Paradise, Rumi and Iqbal visit the palace of kings
Nadir Shah Durrani of Iran, Ahmad Shah Abdali of Afghanistan
and Sultan Tipu of Mysore while classical Persian poet Nasir
Khusro recites a ghazal. Iqbal doesn’t stay with houris
but moves on |
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80. God: Iqbal
has an interview with God, sees the destiny of the world and
faints |
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81. Javid: From
his grave, Iqbal addresses the reader as “Javid”,
which means the everlasting |
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82. Gabriel’s
Wing: The reader enters the Wisdom of Love through
Gabriel’s Wing |
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83. Sixteen Poems:
A set of sixteen poems with some similarities to the first
section of Persian Psalms |
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84. Sixty-One Poems:
A set of sixty-one poems with some similarities to
the second section of Persian Psalms |
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85. Free Association:
A bunch of quatrains |
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86. Spain: The
first nine poems of the second section of Gabriel’s Wing
deal with the human interaction with God and include the Mosque
of Cordoba, prayers of Iqbal, Spanish rulers Mutamid and Abdur
Rahman I, Lenin and angels, and God’s command to angels |
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87. Palestine:
An ode to the Prophet |
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88. Nature: A
dialogue between Rumi and Iqbal in a unique setting, followed
by a conversation between Devil and Gabriel |
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89. Napoleon’s
Tomb: Poems about Napoleon,
Mussolini and King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan |
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90. Mujaddid: While
the Central Asia feels an internal urge for counter-revolution,
the legacies of Shakespeare as well as Rumi appear to have been
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