Family Lineage Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi

Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi has the full name of Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi Muhammad bin Hasin al-Khattabi al-Bakri (Jalaluddin Rumi) or often called Rumi is a Sufi poet who was born in Balkh (present-day Afghanistan) on 6 Rabiul Awwal in 604 Hijriah, or dated 30 September 1207 AD. His father was still a descendant of Abu Bakr, named Bahauddin Walad. His mother came from the Khwarazm royal family. Rumi's father was a pious scholar, he was able to look forward, a famous teacher in Balkh. When Rumi was 3 years old because of being threatened by Mogol's invasion, his family left Balkh through Khurasan and Syria, to the Province of Rum in central Anatolia, which is part of present-day Turkey. They settled in Qonya, the capital of Rum province. In his wanderings and refuge, his family had stopped in the city of Nishapur, the birthplace of poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam. In this city Rumi met with Attar who predicted this refugee boy will be famous that will light the fire of God's passion. [1]

In 1244 AD, Rumi met another spiritual shaykh, Shamsuddin of Tabriz, who turned him into a perfect science of tasawwuf. After Syamsuddi's death, Rumi later met with Husamuddin Ghalabi, and inspired him to write his spiritual experience in his monumental Matsnawi-ye Ma'nawi. He dictated his work to Husamuddin until ahir only in 1273 AD

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