The Old Man's Dream: English And Persian (Sufi Tales)

By Shohreh Ebrahimnezhad, Manoutchehr Keyhani, Ali Keyhani

The Old Man's dream is a well-crafted Sufi tale about an old man who goes to a mountain every day to collect dried thorny bushes, and then he carries them on his back to the village market and sells them to be used as fuel. In the afternoon, the old man sings lullabies to himself, and he recites prayers that he has memorized in the mosque. When he feels lonely, he loudly talks to God. When his back hurts from bending all day, he says to God: "If your back hurts, I will gently caress it tonight, just wait until I get home." One day, he is very tired; he lies down under a serrated rock and falls asleep. He has a dream. In this dream, he sees a man in a white robe standing over him. He jumps up and grabs the man's hand to kiss it. His dream sets in motion a karmic force to test the limits of forgiveness.Three characters of this Sufi tale fall into different twist of fates. The Sufi tale ends as greed, regret, and desire for what had been falls into a twisted karmic drama. Sufi tales are originated in ancient Persian myths, folkloric stories of Molla Nasreddin. The Sufi philosophers and poets, Khwarizmi, Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Hafiz, Saadi, Attar, and Ganjavi have crafted poems based on the Sufi's poetry of love for the divine and the intoxicating oneness of union with it. They are the essence of Persian spirituality, mysticism, fate, and karma. The Sufi Tale Series are presented in English and Persian.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514394359
• ISBN13: 9781514394359
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"