From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

Baha' ud-Din became the head of a madrassa (religious school) and when he died Rumi aged twenty-five inherited his position as the Islamic molvi. This meeting had a deep impact on the eighteen-year-old Rumi and later on became the inspiration for his works. The most complete genealogy offered for the family stretches back to six or seven generations to famous Hanafi Jurists.

g. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. Pashto Ottoman Turkish Chagatai and Sindhi.