Spend a lot of time alone with him and continue to receive an education.īut not everyone could take this excess of Rumi’s association with Shams Tabrizi well. So he brought Shams Tabrizi to his house. There is a lot to understand and contain. He understands that there is so much more to life than just the faith he lived in. Rumi was also overwhelmed when he met Shams Tabrizi. So when Rumi reaches the age of forty and he becomes qualified to hold that spirituality, Shams Tabrizi finds him again. But he did not catch Rumi because he was too young.
Shams Tabrizi first saw Rumi when Rumi was 21 years old, and he saw Rumi and realized that Rumi could be his worthy disciple and representative, who could fully comprehend his spiritual knowledge and abilities. Because he could not stay in one place for long and be common, he could be seen in two places at the same time, so that it seemed that he could fly or change his position in the blink of an eye. Shams Tabrizi was an unruly nomadic saint, whom people called a ‘bird’. And thus on November 15, 1244, Shams Tabrizi became acquainted with him. Sometimes a shoemaker, sometimes a goldsmith would become his intimate friend. Class inequality did not find a place in him. But in the midst of all this, he was a bit of an exception. As the then king of Konya was his student, he was often considered higher than the king. He was a high-ranking dignitary in Konya. So from this it is understood that Rumi’s life in Konya was going very well. Syed Burhan Uddin Mohakkiki, a student of Rumi Bahauddin, studied Islamic Sharia and Sufism with Tirmizi for nine consecutive years and at one point became the chief judge of the Konya Mosque. Shortly after his death, Rumi succeeded him at the age of 25, and gradually he became known as Maulvi Sahib or Maulana Sahib.
In 1226, Alauddin Kaikobad, the ruler of Anatolia, invited Bahauddin and his family to Konya, Anatolia, and asked them to stay.īahauddin was appointed the headmaster of the madrasa there. Rumi’s one son Amir Alim Chalabi and one daughter Malakhi Khatun were born here. After the death of Gawhar Khatun, Rumi married a widow, who had a daughter named Kimia Khatun. They have two sons – Sultan Walad and Alauddin Chalabi. Rumi married Gawhar Khatun in 1225 while he was in Karaman during the Hijrah. Which had a profound effect on Rumi’s adolescence and he became fascinated with the mystery. He sees Rumi walking behind his father and says, “A sea is going behind a lake.” He presented Rumi with a book on the spirit of the hereafter, Asarnama. At the age of 18, on their way to Mecca, they were met at Nishapur by the famous Persian spiritual poet Attar. And during this migration, all the famous sages of that time started meeting Rumi.
When Rumi was 11 years old, Baha’u’llah Walad emigrated with his family and hundreds of followers to various countries in the Middle East over a dispute with the king of Balkh. And since his mother Muimina Khatun is a descendant of the Khwarizmi dynasty, Rumi has been growing up in the company of high-ranking people since childhood. Since his father was a famous ulama and jurist of that time, Rumi had the opportunity to acquire in-depth knowledge of various aspects of Islamic scriptures from an early age.