Rumi and Shams stayed together for a short time, about 2 years in total, but the impact of their meeting left an everlasting impression on Rumi and his work. A work filled with anecdotes, life lessons, moral stories, stories from all three Abrahamic religions, and popular topics of the day. Manuscript of Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi at Mevlana Museum, Konya, TurkeyĪfter the first collection, he devotes the last ten years of his life to creating Masnavi Ma’navi. It took him 15 years to complete this collection. The first collection is devoted to his mentor Shams named, Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi. These thousands of poems, which include about 2,000 in quatrains, are collected in two epic books. In the 20th century, it was established that Shams was indeed murdered, not without the knowledge of Rumi’s sons, who hurriedly buried him close to a well that is still extant in Konya.Īfter Shams was extinguished, Rumi fell into a deep state of grief and gradually out of that pain outpoured nearly 70,000 verses of poetry almost all in Persian that are collected in two epic books. The family, however, could not tolerate the close relation of Rumi with Shams, and one night in 1247 Shams disappeared forever. Rumi was heartbroken, and his eldest son, Sulṭan Walad, eventually brought Shams back from Syria.
Tomb of Shams Tabrizi, Khoy, West Azerbaijan province, Iranįor months the two mystics lived closely together, and Rumi neglected his disciples and family so that his scandalized entourage forced Shams to leave the town in February 1246.
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