He wrote in Farsi, if Ken is interested…he often used Islamic themes in his poem but often ignored, these two have been quoted a lot recently in the campaign to reclaim Rumi
I am the servant of the Qur’an as long as I have life.
I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen one.
If anyone quotes anything except this from my sayings,
I am quit of him and outraged by these words.
Rumi’s Quatrain No. 1173
“The Light of Muhammad has become a thousand branches (of knowledge), a thousand, so that both this world and the next have been seized from end to end. If Muhammad rips the veil open from a single such branch, thousands of monks and priests will tear the string of FALSE belief from around their waists.”
He wrote in Farsi, if Ken is interested…he often used Islamic themes in his poem but often ignored, these two have been quoted a lot recently in the campaign to reclaim Rumi
I am the servant of the Qur’an as long as I have life.
I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen one.
If anyone quotes anything except this from my sayings,
I am quit of him and outraged by these words.
Rumi’s Quatrain No. 1173
“The Light of Muhammad has become a thousand branches (of knowledge), a thousand, so that both this world and the next have been seized from end to end. If Muhammad rips the veil open from a single such branch, thousands of monks and priests will tear the string of FALSE belief from around their waists.”
https://seekersguidance.org/answers/general-counsel/was-rumi-an-orthodox-muslim/
https://zirrar.com/reading-rumi-the-erasure-of-islam-from-rumi/#Was_Rumi_really_a_pious_Muslim
But there’s a lot lot more
https://books.google.mu/books?id=-17EZOGivqMC&dq=The+Light+of+Muhammad+has+become+a+thousand+branches+(of+knowledge),+a+thousand,+so+that+both+this+world+and+the+next+have+been+seized+from+end+to+end.+If+Muhammad+rips+the+veil+open+from+a+single+such+branch,+thousands+of+monks+and+priests+will+tear+the+string+of+false+belief+from+around+their+waists.%E2%80%9D&source=gbs_navlinks_s
It’s sad that we have to do it actually
“was educated in science of hadith”
I really doubt that. Most sufis would not admit that those people were mere heretic.