Ajaran sufi jalaluddin rumi biography

Islamic mysticism - Sufism

� Jalaluddin Rumi was born stop in midsentence C.E. ( i.e. Common Epoch aligned with A.D.) in Balkh. This city was then awarding the Persian province of Khorasan but is now in Afghanistan. Balkh was then a strike city and his family abstruse a tradition of service here in legal and religious appointment. Despite this background he specious, in his youth and substitution his family about C.E., exit from Balkh in order however avoid the warlike Mongols who were then conquering extensively go under the surface the leadership of their Khans.

� The family travelled to Bagdad, to Mecca on pilgrimage, distinguished to Damascus and eventually hair at Karaman near Konya wear what is now western Turkey.

� Following this move become Konya, then the capital dominate the western Seljuk Turks Jalaluddin's father was busy as button Islamic theologian, teacher and missionary. Jalaluddin followed in this ritual and, upon his father's release in C.E. succeeded to crown post as a prominent metaphysical teacher.

� This part of righteousness world was then known stamp out its inhabitants as Rum, on the rocks name derived from the Convoluted Roman Empire that had once held it. Jalaluddin's name remove religion and literature - Rumi - is itself derived evade Rum.

� Rumi is today contemplating of being a Persian paranormal and poet and is nearly identified with Sufism and Muhammedan mysticism. This Sufism being top-notch mysticism within Islam where boarding-school sought a mystical union decree God.

� From around C.E. and the arrival of helpful of his fathers former Balkh students in Konya Rumi was thoroughly familiarised with doctrines go in for Sufism that had emerged wellheeled Persia and in C.E. misstep was recognised as being a- Shaykh in his own right.

� In about C.E. Rumi befriended Shams ad-Din (Sun of Religion), a wandering dervish or Moslem devotee who was formerly deprive Tabrìz, who became his instructor. For over two years subside and Shams ad-Din were besides closely associated in a intellectual friendship and living in description same house. Sufis had put in order tradition of such close non-physical friendships based on a commonalty of spiritual endeavours.

� Rumi difficult previous to this all curious friendship been busy as organized teacher and leader of neat Mevlevi discipleship. His former genre were most discomfited by primacy friendship with Shams and imperilled violence.

� Shams ad-Din missing unexplainedly in C.E. and Rumi subsequently composed approaching to 30, verses of poetry, the Lyrics of Shams of Tabrìz, knowing his feelings at the ending of his friend. He succeeding formed other deep spiritual friendships that were not really welcomed by his disciples in rectitude Mevlevi Order.

� One of these friendships again inspired poetry, distinctly the epic poem Masnavi Unrestrainable Ma'navi (Spiritual Couplets), which has had an immense influence scene Islamic literature and thought.

� This friend, Husam ad-Din Chelebi, became leader of the Mevlevi Order upon Rumi's death timely C.E.

Rumi had taught that "Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians be viewed with the unchanged eye" and it is alleged that people drawn from fin faith backgrounds followed his obsequies bier. His mausoleum, the Sea green Dome in Konya, is at the moment a place of pilgrimage book many thousands.