Moulana Muhammad Jalaluddin Rumi. Who was he and why is his message so important to humanity at this time in history? On 30 September 1207 CE or so tradition holds, in the small village of Waqsh, in the region of Balkh, in the Persian province of Khorasan a son was born to the mystic preacher Sheikh Bahauddin Walad. His name was Muhammad Jalaluddin and he and his family shortly moved to Samarqand. There was much strife in that part of the world at that time and also Jenghis Khan’s Mongols were moving west. The family and many of Baha’uddin’s students went on the Hajj to Mecca after which they heard that the Mongols had sacked Samarqand and were besieging Bokhara. They settled in Damascus and the young Jalal studied with various teachers. Then the family slowly moved toward the Seljuk Kingdom of Rum in what is now Anatolia in Turkey. The Sultan of Konya invited the party to settle in his town to help make it the finest centre of crafts and learning in the region. Jalal became a College Professor in Religious subjects and a Master to many students at the Konya Religious School. He was given the clerical title of Moula and so students called him Moulana or ‘our master.’ One day he met a mystic named Muhammad Shamsuddin of Tabriz. Shams was an attained Master of Sufism which is the path of Spiritual Knowledge under Divine Grace and Guidance. Between these two a river of Ashk flowed. This word means a form of energy flow much like that between lovers yet without the sensual connotations of the ordinary human being.
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