KARACHI:
A theatrical manufacturing exploring the life, transformation and religious journey of the famend Sufi poet Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi was offered on the Nationwide Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA), providing audiences a uncommon stage interpretation of one in every of historical past’s most influential mystics.
Titled Rumi: Unveiling of the Solar, the play, written by Amrit Kent and directed by Shahnawaz Bhatti, was staged on the Zia Mohiuddin Theatre on Saturday. The manufacturing centered on the profound relationship between Rumi and the wandering dervish Hazrat Shamsuddin Tabrezi, a gathering broadly thought to be a turning level in Rumi’s life and thought.
The narrative depicted the mental and religious battle between the 2 figures and the way Shams’ affect reshaped Rumi’s philosophy, poetry and understanding of divine love. By means of dialogue, music and motion, the play portrayed Rumi’s transformation from a celebrated scholar right into a religious determine whose teachings proceed to resonate throughout cultures.
Director Shahnawaz Bhatti, talking to The Specific Tribune, stated the play focuses on the transformative encounter between Maulana Rumi and Shams Tabrez, describing it as a second that reshaped Rumi’s understanding of data, spirituality and love.
He stated the manufacturing makes an attempt to indicate how artwork, music and motion within the Sufi custom grow to be types of devotion, guiding people in direction of inside peace and concord.
Thought of the primary stage manufacturing written particularly on the lifetime of Maulana Rumi, the play was properly obtained by audiences. Performances by Mujtaba Zaidi, Sarfaraz Ali and Zubair Baloch drew specific appreciation for his or her portrayal of emotionally complicated characters.
The manufacturing additionally mirrored the enduring relevance of Rumi’s message, presenting spirituality not solely as a non secular expertise however as a common seek for love, connection and self-discovery.
Rumi was born to Persian dad and mom, in Wakhsh, a village on the East financial institution of the Wakhsh River referred to as Sangtuda in present-day Tajikistan. The realm, culturally adjoining to Balkh, is the place Mawlânâ’s father, Bahâ’ uddîn Walad, was a preacher and jurist. He lived and labored there till 1212, when Rumi was aged round 5 and the household moved to Samarkand.
Larger Balkh was at the moment a significant centre of Persian tradition and Sufism had developed there for a number of centuries. Crucial influences upon Rumi, moreover his father, have been the Persian poets Attar and Sanai. Rumi expresses his appreciation: “Attar was the spirit, Sanai his eyes twain, And in time thereafter, Got here we of their practice” and mentions in one other poem: “Attar has traversed the seven cities of Love, We’re nonetheless on the flip of 1 avenue”. His father was additionally linked to the religious lineage of Najm al-Din Kubra.
