Masnavi

All about Rumi. Jelalaldin Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet, was a venerated teacher, and a scholar. People from everywhere came to listen to him. Then one day he met a wandering dervish, who spoke in riddles, was insolent and irritable, and his name was Shams al-Din of Tabriz. Love blossomed between the two men. They stayed together, locked away, for forty days and forty nights. When they went their separate ways, Rumi was a different man. He danced, laughed, and wrote poems. He had been illuminated, as though from within.