His quote, вЂњI do not distinguish between the relative and the strangerвЂќ shows his good relations with people of diverse social, cultural, and religious backgrounds. Eight hundred years have now passed since the birth of Rumi in 1207, yet his poems remain to be vibrant and invigorating to contemporary readers.

Rumi has written some 3229 poems/ghazals, many of them in Urdu and Persian, while some in Turkish also. Divan-i-shams has a huge collection of RumiвЂ™s ghazals and poems, of which Nicholson translated few selected ones while Arberry translated around 400 of them, while rest of works being still in continuation. His work Meth-nawi or Masnavi, a massive collection of narrative poems on mystical life is considered to be one of a kind.Дivan-i-shams, another of the famed works of Rumi was translated by the Cambridge professors and are still under printing, 110 years later after NicholsonвЂ™s death. From then on, Rumi began his journey of transformation from a sober theologian and preacher into ecstatic dancer and enraptured poet.

Hats off to the translation work by Cambridge professors Reynolds Alleyne Nicholson and Arthur J Arberry who devoted much of their scholarly works to translate RumiвЂ™s poems and Ghazals and introduced them to the west, simultaneously to the World.ДЇrom 1240 to 1244, after completing his long formal education in Aleppo and Damascus, Rumi in his own turn taught and preached in Konya. Rumi's Stories, poems, lectures are considered the most eminent and popular ones, especially gaining attention in the West, quite recently. His influences ran across the countries of South Asia, including Turkey, Iran, Greece, and Pashtun regions. He took his last breath in 1273 at Konya, in Asiatic Turkey. 1207 at Balkh, which now lies within the frontiers of Afghanistan. The divine theologian and Sufi poet were born in A.D. Maulana Jalal al-din Rumi, popularly known as Mevlana Rumi was a Persian mystical poet of the 13 Century.

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