The Life Teachings and Values of Rumi
Also known as:
- Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī
- Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
- Mewlānā
- Mowlānā
- Mevlānā
"From this foul, fulsome world, Rumi moved on
After ten sweet years with Hosam al-Dim On a December's day, the seventeenth that proud monarch's moving on came to pass Seventy-two and six hundred years since the Hijra of the Prophet had gone by The eye of mankind wet so sore that day its lightning stuck and burned away the souls A quaking overtook the earth that moment in the heavens rose a wail of orning The people of the town, both young and old wailed and wept and sighed in lamentation The villagers nearby, both Greeks and Turks in painful loss of him rent wide their collars all paid the corpse their last loving respects Folks from every faith proved faithful to him - in love with him the people of all nations" -Sultan Valad's account of Rumi's passing (A.D. 1273) |