Hover Your Mouse Slowly Across the Window!
This is a poem of
RUMI in the original Persian. Through the magic of the Flash animation you
can now view a morphing of this poem into English through a 4 phase process.
Phase 1: Persian quatrain in nasta'ligh calligraphy.
Phase 2: Easy to read transliteration, so you can sound out the Persian
of RUMI.
Phase 3: Word-for-word translation, so you can know the meaning of
every word.
Phase 4: Translation of the poem in English.
This system of translation was incorporated in Shahram Shiva's book "Rending
the Veil."