Name Eshrefoglu Rumi | ||
Eşrefoğlu Abdullah Rûmî (-1469) was a Turkish poet and mystic of the early years of Ottoman Empire. His original name was Abdullah, but he was known as Eşrefoğlu Rumi. He was born in İznik, and died there in 1469. His father Sayyid Ahmed came from Egypt and settled in İznik. After a theological education, Rumi turned to Sufism under the guidance of Haji Bayram Veli. Later, he founded the Eshrefiye branch of the Kadiri dervishes.
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Rumi wrote in Turkish. While he is known for his Divan and Muzakki-l-nufus, he wrote many books such as Tarîkatnâme, Fütüvvetnâme, Delâil ün nübüvve, İbretnâme, Mâziretnâme, Hayretnâme, Elestnâme, Nasîhatnâme, Esrarüttâlibîn, Münâcaatnâme and Tâcnâme.
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A verse from his poems (Translation from Turkish into English):
their garden it was sorrow today we are Love, perhaps tomorrow ... we're in another place .. . what place are we in? when are we curtains to ourselves, and when not so... ? passing close by Nothingness and Being when did we go? we mixed the days into loves and vanished in the mortar of that wall they call Time maybe some infinite things would release the flood of spring i lie down and wrap myself in and you, you had thought yourself skin; is it a river, amid stability and flow? loneliness didn't come on the road by which you'd hey look, more than you do, the roads hurry on; your cure from both disease and health has fallen to a rose.References
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