Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi 
By J.Coleman and A. Manzak
"Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened.  Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading.  Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
                                                   -Rumi
    This is Rumi's life.
 Rumi was born in 1207 in Balkh, Afghanistan.  Rumi's full name-
Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi- means Love and Ecstatic Flight into the Infinite.
Major events during Rumis Life Time:
- This was the time of the Dark Ages

- The Catholic Kingdoms of Halich and Lithuania were created and destroyed

- Poland splintered into many minor duchies

- The Great Schism occurred in the Catholic Church

- Pope Innocent III manages to irritate every prince and king in Europe exercising theocracy

- The Crusades were in full swing

- The Catholic Church splits into East and West, crumbling it’s power

Some of Rumi's Beautiful Poems 

Come, Come whoever you are,
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of
leaving,
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your
vow
a thousand times.
Come, yet again, come, come.
-excerpt from "Be Lost in the Call"
Websites who's information helped create this site:
     www.khamush.com/life.html
www.chalice.ch/c_t_rm1e.htm
www.crosswinds.net/~essenes/rumi.html
search.sify.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Authors/R/Rumi/
there are also a few others who contributed to pictures and myself and Ann \
sincerely thank-you.
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