Selected poems from the Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi

by Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī)

"Rumi at the age of thirty-seven meets Shams-e Tabrizi (the sun of Tabriz) "a weird figure wrapped in coarse black felt, who flits across the stage for a moment and disappears tragically enough." S…