Selected Poems of Rumi

in any case it would seem that he and the group of Ṣūfīs around him enjoyed influential support and were in a position to defy attacks on their doctrine.

At last Shamsu’l-Dīn fled to Damascus,

He took him away to his house, and for a year or two they remained inseparable.

Jalālu’1-Dīn found in the stranger that perfect image of the Divine Beloved which he had long been seeking.

seeing himself by the light of God, realizes that he and his Beloved are not two, but One. These experiences lie at the very centre of Rūmīs theosophy and directly or indirectly inspire all his poetry.

arge extent legendary

who claimed descent from Arab stock, and from no less a person than Abū Bakr, the first Caliph of Islam.

the greatest mystical poet of Persia