Maulana Jalal Uddin Rumi was born in Balkh, Afghanistan in 1207. He died in 1273 at the age of 66 and is buried in Konya in Turkey. He was a great admirer of Al Ghazali who died in 1111 about 100 years before the birth of Rumi. Below is a selectin from Masnavi of Rumi a translation done in 6 volumes by Professor R. A Nicholson of Cambridge University during 1922 and 1940. Sometimes the action of God appears like this, sometimes the contrary; (true) religion is nothing but bewilderment. (I mean) not one bewildered in such wise that his back is turned on Him; nay, but one bewildered and drowned and drunken with the Beloved.
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