RUMI’S INFLUENCE

Rumi has gained recognition far beyond all other people of heart, thinkers, and poets in the Islamic world. Whenever you take any book about Sufism in your hand or whenever you encounter people speaking of matters concerning Sufism, you surely will come across Rumi's couplets, views, and opinions. Rumi is known not only in Turkey and other Islamic countries, but he also is recognized in the West, in books about Sufism that are written in Western languages. Rumi is loved by everyone since he is a great spiritual guide and a perfect human being who knew how to express his feelings and opinions sincerely without any ostentation and arrogance, the way he felt them in his heart. Both his Mesnevi and Divan-i Kabir, as well as other of his works, have become sources of divine wisdom, a spring of gnosis for every believer who loves God and the truth and has a share in divine love. For centuries his books have been speaking to every poet, every writer, every sensitive person, and to every dervish no matter what order they belong to. Since Rumi loves all people, he has opened up his blessed heart to everybody He addresses everyone in his writ­ings. Everyone, according to his or her talents, understanding, taste, and inclination, benefits from Rumi and finds himself in Rumi's feelings and ideas.

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