Why is Rumi regarded as a remarkable poet?

 

 

               “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” wrote Rumi. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, who is simply known as Rumi, was a master of the spiritual verse. ‘Mathnawi-i Ma’nawi’ is his great spiritual work. The work has sixty four thousand lines. His ‘Diwan-i-Shams-i- Tabrizi or ‘The Works of Shams Tabriz’ ranks as one of the outstanding works of Persian literature.

               Rumi was born in Afghanistan in 1207. Later, his family moved to Turkey. Rumi wrote the bulk of his work in Persian, but he also employed Turkish, Arabic and Greek. Rumi passed away on December 17, 1273 in Turkey. Today, Rumi is one among the world’s best selling poets.