Shamsi Tabriz
Muzaffar Ali Sahib,
I am pleased to learn about your plans to make a Movie on Rumi and Shams. I have spent about 40 years in researchng about these two great luminaries.In the words of Slutan Valed (Rumi's son), Shams was to Rumi what Khizr was to Moses. Rumi's life too was transformed after meeting with Shams. Khizr disappeared after imparting knowledge of the unknown to Moses, Shams too disappeared "without leaving a trace behind". Please be careful and guard against the fabrications by some orientalists who allege that Shams was killed in Konya. This is far from truth and sheer fabrication, based on one isolated reporter (Daulat Shah)who is not considered reliable by Rumi's biographers and isknown for including other speculative tales about Rumi.The story of Shams' murder was cooked up by the Koniyans to help Rumi reconcile himself with Shams's sudden disappearence. Rumi was no fool.That he never believed it is obvious from his poems written after Shams'disappearance and from the fact that at least he set out on long and arduous journeys to allepo and Damascus in search of Shams. The late Ustad Feruzanfar had discovered just before his death the original manuscript of Maqalat-e Shams Tabriz, that is Shams's conversations with Rumi, recorded by nobody other than Sultan Valed. (I am currently working on these lectures and an annotated copy, with biography of Rumi will be soon published). Shams himself expresses his displeasure with the behavior of Rumi's entourage and warns rumi that if they do not refrain from mibehaving with him, he will leave Konya and none of them will ever be able to see him again. There is great credence in the report that Shams, after leaving Konya, went to Tabriz and travelling through Baghdad, he finally arrived ain India and settled down in Multan, not far from where another great spiritual master Bahauddin Zikria lived and that the shrine in Multan known by name of Shamsi Tabriz is nobody other than the Master of Jalaluddin Rumi.I have come to this conclusion after an ongoing research for more than 40 years. Please let me know if I can be of any help.
Nasir Shamsi
USA
Posted by: Nasir Shamsi at October 19, 2005 09:02 PM
I am pleased to learn about your plans to make a Movie on Rumi and Shams. I have spent about 40 years in researchng about these two great luminaries.In the words of Slutan Valed (Rumi's son), Shams was to Rumi what Khizr was to Moses. Rumi's life too was transformed after meeting with Shams. Khizr disappeared after imparting knowledge of the unknown to Moses, Shams too disappeared "without leaving a trace behind". Please be careful and guard against the fabrications by some orientalists who allege that Shams was killed in Konya. This is far from truth and sheer fabrication, based on one isolated reporter (Daulat Shah)who is not considered reliable by Rumi's biographers and isknown for including other speculative tales about Rumi.The story of Shams' murder was cooked up by the Koniyans to help Rumi reconcile himself with Shams's sudden disappearence. Rumi was no fool.That he never believed it is obvious from his poems written after Shams'disappearance and from the fact that at least he set out on long and arduous journeys to allepo and Damascus in search of Shams. The late Ustad Feruzanfar had discovered just before his death the original manuscript of Maqalat-e Shams Tabriz, that is Shams's conversations with Rumi, recorded by nobody other than Sultan Valed. (I am currently working on these lectures and an annotated copy, with biography of Rumi will be soon published). Shams himself expresses his displeasure with the behavior of Rumi's entourage and warns rumi that if they do not refrain from mibehaving with him, he will leave Konya and none of them will ever be able to see him again. There is great credence in the report that Shams, after leaving Konya, went to Tabriz and travelling through Baghdad, he finally arrived ain India and settled down in Multan, not far from where another great spiritual master Bahauddin Zikria lived and that the shrine in Multan known by name of Shamsi Tabriz is nobody other than the Master of Jalaluddin Rumi.I have come to this conclusion after an ongoing research for more than 40 years. Please let me know if I can be of any help.
Nasir Shamsi
USA
Posted by: Nasir Shamsi at October 19, 2005 09:02 PM
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