Story of Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi

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 (now Afghanistan) on 6 Rabiul Awwal in 604 Hijriah, or 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 three years old, being threatened by the Mogol invasion, his family left Balkh through Khurasan and Syria, to Rum Province in central Anatolia, which is part of present-day Turkey. They settled in Qonya, the capital of Rum province. In the wanderings and evacuations, his family had stopped in the city of Nishapur which is 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.

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 Husamuddin Ghalabi, and inspired him to write his spiritual experience in his monumental Matsnawi-ye Ma'nawi. He dictated his work to Husamuddin until the end of October 1273 AD.

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