He is regarded as one of the greatest spiritual masters and poetical intellects. Born in 1207 AD, he belonged to a family of learned theologians.
He made use of everyday life’s circumstances to describe the spiritual world.
Rumi’s poems have acquired immense popularity, especially among the Persian speakers of Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajikistan.
Numerous poems written by the great poet have been translated into different languages. Rumi was already a teacher and a theologian, when in 1244 AD he came across a wandering dervish named Shamsuddin of Tabriz.
The meeting proved to be a turning point in his life. Shamsuddin and Rumi became very close friends. Shams went to Damascus, where he was allegedly killed by the students of Rumi who were resentful of their close relationship. Rumi expressed his love for Shamsuddin and grief at his death, through music, dance, and poems.
For nearly ten years after meeting Shamsuddin, Rumi devoted himself to writing ghazals.
He made a compilation of ghazals and named it Diwan-e-Kabir or Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi.
Thereafter, Rumi encountered a goldsmith - Salaud-Din-e Zarkub - whom he made his companion. When Salaud-Din-e Zarkub died, Rumi befriended one of his favorite disciples named Hussam-e Chalabi.
Rumi spent most of the later years of his life in Anatolia, where he finished six volumes of his masterwork, the Masnavi.
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