The design of this book is meant to confuse scholars who would divide Rumi’s poetry into the accepted categories: the quatrains (rubaiyat) and odes (ghazals) of the Divan, the six books of the Mathnawi, the discourses, the letters, and the almost unknown Six Sermons. The mind wants categories, but Rumi’s creativity was a continuous fountaining from beyond forms and the mind,
