When1: 1240
When2: 1270
Who: Molavi or Jalal al-Din Mohammad al-Rumi [al-Rumi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad] or Jalalu'ddin Rumi [Rumi, Jalalu'ddin] or Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi [Rumi, Mawlana Jalaluddin] or Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi [Balkhi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad] or Mawlawi or Mawlana or Mevlana
What: poet/philosopher
Where: Balkh, Afghanistan/Konya, Turkey
works\ Divan Shams Tabrizi or Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i or The Works of Shams of Tabriz [1270: poems]; Spiritual Couplets or Qur'an-e Farsi or Masnavi-e-Ma'navi or Mathnawi-i-maanawi or Poem of Inner Meaning [1270: poems totaling 24,000 verses]; Ruba'iyat [1270: poems]; Fihi Ma Fih or Discourses of Rumi [1240 to 1270: Rumi's speeches, as transcribed by his son Sultan Valad and other disciples]; Majalis-i Sab-a or Sermons [1240 to 1270: lectures]
Detail: He lived 1207 to 1273, wrote in Farsi, and was Sufi. His father was Bahauddin Walad, professor who wrote Maarif, or mystic visions. Sayyid Burhaneddin, his father's friend and from Balkh, taught him after his father died, when he was 24 through 33. Rumi became Sufi-community sheikh at Konya. At age 37, he met Shams of Tabriz, Iran, mystic, who left after two days but was brought back and then disappeared. EPISTEMOLOGY: Knowledge of objective truth, or God, develops through love and self-knowledge. Physical and emotional stimuli prevent people from higher perceptions. Addiction to vice or virtue is idolatry and prevents higher perception {veiling}. Teaching people to hate evil and to covet sanctity teaches hatred and covetousness, not goodness or holiness. Conventional religious systems are secondary, imitative, and limited. However, teacher can help people reach higher perceptions, because ordinary people cannot evaluate the mystical masters. Sufi knowledge involves escaping from familiar dimensions.
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