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The Mevlevi rites, Sema symbolize the divine love and mystical ecstasy they aim at union with the Divine. If there is any general idea underlying RumiвЂ™s poetry, it is the absolute love of God. Rumi is the author of six volume didactic epic work, the `MasnaviвЂ™, called as the вЂQuran in PersianвЂ™ by Jami, and Discourses, `Fihi Ma FihiвЂ™, written to introduce his disciples into metaphysics. His love and his bereavement for the death of Shams found their expression in a surge of music, dance and lyric poems, `Divan-e Shams TabriziвЂ™. Rumi was introduced into the mystical path by a wandering dervish, Shams of Tabriz. Rumi 24 years old, was an already accomplished scholar in religious and positive sciences.

When his father Bahauddin Walad passed away, Rumi succeeded his father in 1231 as professor in religious sciences.

Escaping the Mongol invasion and destruction, Rumi and his family traveled extensively in the Muslim lands, performed pilgrimage to Mecca and finally settled in Konya, Anatolia, then part of Seljuk Empire. Rumi was born in Balkh, in 30 September 1207 to a family of learned theologians. Rumi is one of the greatest spiritual masters and poetical geniuses of mankind and was the founder of the Mevlevi Sufi Order, a leading mystical brotherhood of Islam. вЂњThe name Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi stands for love and ecstatic flight into the infinite. It abounds with beauties, andВ blemishes, equally great with gross obscenity, and pureВ ethics with exquisite strains of poetry, and flatВ puerility with wit,В andВ pleasantry, mixed jests with ridicule on all established religions, and a vein of sublime pietyвЂ¦ RumiвЂ™s Masnavi reflects a much more ecumenical spirit and a far broader and deeper religious sensibility than DanteвЂ™s Divine Comedy.вЂќ Sir William Jones, an 18th century British scholar of the Persian language, had proclaimed that:В вЂњ I know of no writer to whom Rumi can justly be compared, except Chaucer or ShakespeareвЂ¦so extraordinary a book as theВ MasnaviВ was never, perhaps, composed by Man. Rumi isВ the greatest mystic poet of any age.вЂќ

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Nicholson, who was the first British-born Orientalist to translate the entire Masnavi into English, characterized Rumi and his works as: вЂњ T he Masnavi is a majestic river, calm and deep, meandering through many a richВ and varied landscape to the immeasurable ocean the Divan is a foaming torrent that leaps and plunges inВ the ethereal solitude of the hills. The greatest Rumi scholar and translator, R. In profundity of thought, inventiveness of image, and triumphant mastery of language, Rumi stands out as the supreme genius of Islamic Mysticism.вЂќ вЂњ In Rumi we encounter one of the worldвЂ™s greatest poets. TheВ eminent British-born Orientalist and Rumi translator, A. The French writer, Maurice Barres had once confessed: вЂњ When I experienced RumiвЂ™s poetry, which is vibrant with the tone of ecstasy and with melody, I realized the deficiencies of Shakespeare, Goethe and Victor Hugo.вЂќ From German romanticism to American transcendentalism, RumiвЂ™s influence has been broad and deep. Rumi had attained spiritual heights that were attained by only a few before him or sinceвЂ¦While the origins of RumiвЂ™s poetry are distinctly Muslim and Sufi in nature, this hasnвЂ™t stopped his poetry from being vastly widespread and influential. It is often said that Rumi had attained the level of a вЂњPerfect MasterвЂќ and as such, he often dwelled in the spiritual realms that were rarely visited by others of this world. вЂњDivan-e Shams is a masterpiece of wisdom and eloquence.

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