Facts

Rumi (1207-1273) is the __________ poet among Muslims.

• bestselling

• famous

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī was a Sufi mystic poet from __________.

• Multan

• India

• Persia

Maulana Rumi was born in the city of ________ which today is a part of Afghanistan but in Rumi’s time it was a city of Khorasan Province which was ruled by the Persian.

Maulana Rumi was 12 when his family left Balkh because of the invading Mongol Army. They went to Baghdad, Makkah and then Turkish Anatolia where they settled in the famous city of Kirman. Later, they moved to _______

• Balkh

• Konya

On their way, it is believed, Maulana Rumi and his family met a famous Persian mystical poet Fariduddin Attar. It is also said that Attar gave Rumi copy of his book ‘Asrarnama’ (Book of Mysteries) and told Rumi’s father,

“One day your son will set ______to all forlorn (lonely and sad) hearts”.

• water

• milk

• fire

In November 1244 A.D. Maulana Rumi met a Dervish ___________. Rumi was reading a book. Shams asked Rumi what he was doing to which Rumi replied,

“Something that you do not understand”.....

• Sadi

• Shams-i-Tabrizi

• Ibn Arabi.

_________ has more than 36,000 verses of poetry and Shams’ name appears throughout the book.

• The canon of medicine

• Beyond Good and Evil

• Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabrizi

The major themes of Rumi’s poetry are ______,________ and ________.

• Good, evil and courage

• Revenge, courage and search

• love, separation and search.

• love, honesty and kindness

Rumi’s Mathnavi (Masnavi) was written in response to the request of one of his students. Rumi is supposed to have at once pulled the famous 18 verses of the introduction out of his turban already written. These became the introductory poem, the ___________.

• "Everybody has a name"

• "The road not taken"

• "Separation"

• “Song of the Reed”