Its hard to translate, but Rumis poetry is very profound in the original Persian. Bark's content is, as the article describes, an unforgivable affront to Rumi,

Its hard to translate, but Rumis poetry is very profound in the original Persian. Bark's content is, as the article describes, an unforgivable affront to Rumi, but also sounds quite poor to me (as a native English speaker), kind of like those stereotypical Instagram quotes. Persian poetry is hard to accurately render in English. Here's a Twitter account devoted to doing that (as well as exposing fake Rumi quotes in the wild): https://twitter.com/PersianPoetics https://twitter.com/PersianPoetics