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Persian poet and Sufi mystic · 1207–1273 · Faith & Spirituality
A respected jurist whose life turned over after meeting a wandering dervish, leaving tens of thousands of verses on longing and union.
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“Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations.”
Rumi, opening of the Masnavi
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was born in Balkh, in present-day Afghanistan, and his family fled west ahead of the Mongols, settling in Konya in Anatolia. He inherited his father's position as a teacher of Islamic law and was already prominent when, in 1244, he met the wandering dervish Shams of Tabriz. Their intense friendship remade him; when Shams vanished, Rumi poured the loss into poetry. The Masnavi runs to some 25,000 couplets of stories, jokes and Qur'anic commentary that Persian speakers call the Qur'an in Persian tongue. The Divan-e Shams bears his friend's name instead of his own. The Mevlevi order, known for its turning ceremony, formed around his memory.
You can put that to the Rumi persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Rumi’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1207–1273, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Rumi persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Rumi’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1207–1273, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Rumi persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Rumi’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1207–1273, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Rumi persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Rumi’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1207–1273, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Rumi persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Rumi’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1207–1273, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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