Muhammad Jalaluddin Rumi was a famous Persian poet. His real name was Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Hussain Hussaini Khatibi Bakri Balkhi.
His homeland was Balkh and Maulana Rumi was born here in 1207 AH, 6 Rabi-ul-Awal 604 AH. His lineage is described as follows: Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr al-Siddiq.
Muhammad Jalaluddin Rumi received his early education from Sheikh Bahauddin. Initially, he lived in Aleppo’s Madrasa Halawiyyah and received honorary training from Maulana Kamal-ud-Din. Maulana Rumi was a great scholar of jurisprudence and religions in his time.
But he became famous as a Sufi poet. In other sciences you also had the whole device. Shams Tabriz was Maulana’s mentor.
Maulana Rumi went to Konya at the invitation of the Seljuk Sultan Nikki and remained engaged in education and training there for about 30 years.
Jalaluddin Rumi wrote 3500 ghazals, 2000 quatrains and epic poems.
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