If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

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.