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Biography

“Abstract of my life are these words: raw I was, cooked well, burnt I got”

Mevlânâ as known as Rumi was born in the city of Belkh where it is now in border of Afghanistan in 1207 as a son of Sultânü'l-Ulema- Sultan of the Scholars Muhammed Bahaeddîn Veled and Mümine Hatun. When Rumi had immigrated from Belkh, he got familiar with doctrines of visited places such as Mecca, Medina, Nishabur, Aleppo, Baghdat and Damascus. After Karaman visit he came to Konya and settled there. He is known as Mevlana (our master) in the East and as Rumi (Anatolia) in the West.

Mevlânâ as known as Rumi was born in the city of Belkh where it is now in border of Afghanistan in 1207 as a son of Sultânü'l-Ulema- Sultan of the Scholars Muhammed Bahaeddîn Veled and Mümine Hatun. When Rumi had immigrated from Belkh, he got familiar with doctrines of visited places such as Mecca, Medina, Nishabur, Aleppo, Baghdat and Damascus. After Karaman visit he came to Konya and settled there. He is known as Mevlana (our master) in the East and as Rumi (Anatolia) in the West.

Rumi studied with the great scholar and Sufi Burhaneddin in Konya. Rumi’s discipline was focused on divine love, consciousness of God and tolerance which are the foundations of Sufism.

“Everyone became my friend from his own opinion; none sought out my secrets from within me”

Rumi met great thinker Shems-i Tebrizi in 1244 Shems-i Tebrizi who enlightened spiritually and matured Rumi. He had an important role in the life of Rumi and Rumi’s ideas that spread around the world, leaves a deep impression. They focused on divine discussions together, spent their times in divine talks and opened their hearts with Sema rituals. When Rumi’s friends and students became jealous, Shems went to Damascus. Rumi felt very deep grief after Shems leaving. According to the many sources his son Sultan Veled brought back Shems from Damascus. Besides that jealousy arose once again caused to Shems dissapearances. Did he leave the city or was he murdered, all questions about his dissapearance still remains a mystery.

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