When his wife passed away, Mawlana Rumi married again and had a son, Amir Alim Chalabi, and a daughter, Malakeh Khatun. In 1225, Mawlana Rumi married Gowhar Khatun in Karaman and had two sons: Sultan Walad and Ala-uddin Chalabi. They finally settled in Karaman, Turkey for seven years, where Mawlana Rumi’s mother and brother both passed away. They peformed Hajj and then proceeded on their journey. Eventually, between the years 12, Hazrat Bahauddin Walad, with his whole family and a group of disciples, set out westwards. Mawlana Rumi grew up in this learned household in Afghanistan and became a fully accomplished scholar himself. His father, Hazrat Bahauddin Walad, was a great Muslim scholar and also a Sufi saint who descends from the lineage of Sayyidina Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq, the first Caliph of Islam. Mawlana Rumi was born on the 6th of Rabiul Awwal in the Islamic Hijri year 604 in Balkh, present-day Afghanistan. He is one of the greatest saints in Islamic history and is well-known in the West for his Sufi poetry, especially his treasury of couplets entitled Masnavi Sharif. Hazrat Mawlana Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) is a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian and Sufi mystic. Birth Name: Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi – or Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhiīorn in: Balkh, Afghanistan on 30 th September 1207

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