Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi - Come, come (2013) JVaLaMaLiNi.ogv

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى‎), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad
Rūmī (جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), Mevlana or Mawlānā (مولانا, meaning Our Master), Mevlevi or
Mawlawī(مولوی, meaning My Master), and more popularly in the English-speaking world simply as
Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian,
and Sufi mystic. Rumi's importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic borders.
Iranians, Turks, Cappadocian Greeks, Afghans, Tajiks, and other Central Asian Muslims as well as
the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy in the past seven
centuries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed
into various formats. He has been described as the "most popular poet in America" and the "best
selling poet in the US".

Rumi's works are written mostly in Persian, though a few written in the lower status vernacular
(Cappadocian Greek) of the region in which he settled are preserved. His Mathnawi remains one of
the purest literary glories of Persia, and one of the crowning glories of the Persian language.
His original works are widely read today in their original language across the Persian-speaking
world (Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and parts of Persian speaking Central Asia and the Caucasus)
Translations of his works are very popular, most notably in Turkey, Azerbaijan, the United States
and South Asia. His poetry has influenced Persian literature as well as Turkish, Punjabi, Urdu and
some other Iranian, Turkic and Indic languages that have been influenced by Persian, e.g. Pashto,
Ottoman Turkish, Chagatai and Sindhi.