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LESSON 1 · Verses That Moved the World

PAUSE TO THINK

How does the Masnavi begin?

With a crying reed flute

It opens with the **Song of the Reed**: a flute cut from the reed bed cries because it has been torn from its roots. Rumi uses it as an image of the soul, separated from God and aching to return.

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