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1. JALĀL AD-DĪN MUHAMMAD
RŪMĪ
‌‫‌الدین‌محمد‬‫ل‬‫جال‬
‫رومی‬

3. INTRODUCTION
•Born:30 September 1207.
•was a 13th-century Persian poet , jurist, Islamic scholar,
theologian and Sufi mystic.
•Nationality: Afghanistan, Turkey.
children: Ala-eddin Chalabi, Amir Alim Chalabi,
Malakeh Khatun, Sultan
•religion: Muslim
•Died At Age: 66
•Died on: 17 December 1273

4. JALĀL AD-DĪN MUHAMMAD RŪMĪ
•Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī also know as alāl ad-
Dīn Muhammad Balkhī.
•His name literally means “Majesty of Religion”
•Jalal means “Majesty”
•Din means “Religion”
•Rumi is a descriptive name which means “The
Roman” since he died in Anatolia.

5. EARLY
LIFE •Rumi was born on 30 September 1207 – 17,
Afghanistan.
•He was the son of Baha’ud-Din Walad, a theologian.
•He preached in the mosques of Konya. By the time
Rumi reached the age of 24, he had proven himself as
a well-informed scholar in the field of religious
science
•For nine years Rumi practice Sufism..
•During this period, Rumi also travelled to Damascus
and is said to have spent four years there.

6. MADRASSA
•Baha' ud-Din became the head of a Madrassa (religious school) and
when he died, Rumi, aged twenty-five, inherited his position as the
Islamic maulvi.
•One of Baha' ud-Din's students, Sayyed Burhan ud-Din Muhaqqiq
Termazi, continued to train Rumi in the Shariah as well as the Tariqa,
especially that of Rumi's father.
•Rumi became head of the madrasah, or spiritual learning community.
The school reportedly had over ten thousand students, including
masons, grocers, weavers, hatmakers, carpenters, tailors, and
bookbinders.

7. SHAMS’ FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH RUMI
•One day Rumi was reading next to a large stack of books.
Shams Tabriz, passing by, asked him, "What are you
doing?" Rumi replied, "Something you cannot
understand." This is knowledge that cannot be
understood by the unlearned.
• On hearing this, Shams threw the stack of books into a
nearby pool of water. Rumi hastily rescued the books and
to his surprise they were all dry.
•Rumi then asked Shams, "What is this?" To which Shams
replied, "Mowlana, this is what you cannot understand."
This is knowledge that cannot be understood by the
learned.

9. RELIGIOUS TEACHING
•Rumi expressed deep yearning and ecstatic love that he felt in the presence
of Allah (God). Rumi considers all love to be, in reality, the divine love for
Allah. Although people love one another and beautiful objects of the world,
these are only reflections of the Beloved and as such, are a distraction from
the truth.
•It is undeniable that Rumi was a Muslim scholar and took Islam seriously.
Nonetheless, the depth of his spiritual vision extended beyond narrow
understanding sectarian concerns.
•He deeply attached himself to the articles of belief and principles of Islam.
Hence, the subject of worship is dealt with clearly and in detail with his work.

11. RUMI’S WORK
For nearly ten years after meeting Shamsuddin, Rumi devoted himself
in writing ghazals. He made a compilation of ghazals and named it
Shams-e-Tabrizi.
Rumi spent most of the later years of his life in Anatolia, where he
finished six volumes of his masterwork, the Mathnawi. Mathnawi
attempts to explain the various facets of spiritual life.
Rumi wrote over 65,000 verses of intoxicated poetry on the Sufi path
of love and spiritual understanding.
Fihi Ma Fihi means "It Is What It Is”. The book consists of 72 short
discourses.

12. POPULAR BOOKS BY RUMI
SHAMS-E-TABRIZI THE MATHNAWI

13. SAMA (Whirling Dervishes) is a Sufi ceremony performed as dhikr. Sama means "listening",
while dhikr means "remembrance". These rituals often includes singing, playing instruments,
dancing, recitation of poetry and prayers, wearing symbolic attire, and other rituals.

14. Rumi believed passionately in the use of music, poetry
and dance as a path for reaching God. For Rumi,
music helped devotees to focus their whole being on
the divine and to do this so intensely that the soul was
both destroyed and resurrected. It was from these
ideas that the practice of whirling Dervishes
developed into a ritual form.

15. POPULARITY
Rumi’s popularity has gone
beyond national and ethnic
borders. He is considered to be
one of the classical poets, by
the speakers of Persian
language in Iran, Afghanistan
and Tajikistan. For many years,
he had a great influence on
Turkish literature

16. RUMI’S WORDS OF WISDOM
Rumi crafted spiritual wisdom, in the most beautiful of ways,
and even in today’s modern age, anyone reading Rumi will
find something they can relate to, He talked about:
Wisdom
Love
Growth
Seeking
Courage
Silence
Soul
Life

17. LEGACY
. Rumi's importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic
borders. His poems have been translated into many of the world's
languages and have appeared in various formats. The Persian world, from
Turkey to India, looks upon Rumi as one of the greatest spiritual poets in
history. He has had a significant influence on both Persian and Turkish
literature throughout the centuries. Over the last century, Rumi’s poetry
has spread from the Islamic world and into the Western world. The lyrical
beauty of his outpourings of love for the Divine have also helped to
make him one of the most popular and best-selling poets in America.

18. “Your task is not to seek for love, but
merely to seek and find all the barriers
within yourself that you have built against
it.”
― Rumi

19. RUMI’S COLLECTION OF LETTERS
Rumi’s oldest son, Sultan Velad, managed to
save 147 of Rumi’s intimate letters, which
provide insights about the poet and how he
lived. Rumi often involved himself in the lives of
his community members, solving disputes and
facilitating loans between nobles and students.
The letters are described as having lines of
poetry scattered throughout..

21. DEATH OF MEVLANA RUMI
Rumi departed from the world on 17th December 1273 AD, in Konya his body was
interred beside that of his father, and a splendid shrine, the Yeşil Türbe (Green
Tomb, today the Mevlâna Museum), was erected over his place of burial. His epitaph
reads:
“When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the
hearts of men.”
commemorating the great Sufi poet. It consists of a mosque, dervish living quarters
and a dance hall. The sacred site is visited by his admirers coming from different
parts of the world

22. What you seek is
seeking you.
-Rumi