Rumi became a disciple and intimate friend to Shams the two were rarely apart. Around 1244, Shams arrived in Konya, preaching the possibility and necessity of direct communion with God. Rumi’s discovery of poetry is generally dated to his midlife friendship with the mystic Shams al-Din Tabrizi. Rumi’s family fled the Mongols, settling in Samarkand and then Anatolia. Sufi mystic Jalal al-Din Rumi was born Jalal al-Din Mohammad-e Balkhi on the edge of the Persian Empire, in Balkh in modern-day Afghanistan (though another birthplace in Tajikistan is also claimed). Of whom it is said, “The sun never dies” - where did he go? If his heart and soul are joined with God,Īnd he left this realm of earth and water, where did he go?
Since he’s not here, to what “there” did he go? That lovely face, like a moon, where did he go? That pearl in the vast sea, where did he go?Īll night long, I implore both moon and Venus . That deer in the meadows, where did he go? Go to the rooftop, and ask the watchman . That tall, shapely rose stem, where did he go? That soul-stirring companion, where did he go? Go to the road, and ask any passing traveler . Where did he go? So strange, where did he go without me?Īll day long my heart trembles like a leaf.Īll alone at midnight, where did that beloved go? He spread his light among us like a candle. I wonder, where did that tall, shapely cypress tree go?
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