How did Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi get its name?.

Who was Shah Shams Tabriz and what did he do?.

But this is wrong actually this tomb belongs to Hazrat Pir Shamsuddin Sabzwari Multani who is the pir of the Ismaili spiritual and theological school. The tomb stone clearly indicates it is the same Shams-i TabrД«zД«, who was the spiritual mentor of Rumi. A saint by the name of Shams-i TabrД«zД« is also buried at Multan, Pakistan. His tomb has been nominated as a World Cultural Heritage Center by UNESCO. Shams Tabrizi died in Khoy and is buried there. In Rumi's poetry Shams becomes a symbol of God's love for mankind Shams was a sun ('Shams' means 'Sun' in Arabic) shining the Light of God on Rumi As the years passed, Rumi attributed more and more of his own poetry to Shams as a sign of love for his departed friend and master. His reply was, 'Something you do not understand.'ДЄfter several years with Rumi in Konya, Shams left and settled in Khoy. Shams asks Rumi what he is doing, to which Rumi replies, 'Something that you do not understand!' At that moment, the books suddenly catch fire and Rumi asks Shams to explain what happened. Rumi regards him as an uneducated stranger. Rumi then asked Shams, 'What is this?' To which Shams replied, 'Mowlana, this is what you cannot understand.'ДЄ second version of the tale has Shams passing by Rumi who again is reading a book. Rumi hastily rescued the books and to his surprise they were all dry. Shams Tabriz, passing by, asked him, 'What are you doing?' Rumi scoffingly replied, 'Something you cannot understand.' On hearing this, Shams threw the stack of books into a nearby pool of water. One day Rumi was reading next to a large stack of books. As it was said in Hajji Bektash Wali's book, 'Makalat', he was looking for something. He was claiming to be a travelling merchant. In 1244, a man in black suit from head to toe, came to the famous inn of Sugar Merchants of Konya.

The specificities of how this transference occurred, however, are not yet known. The transference of the epithet to the biography of RumiвЂ™s mentor suggests that this ImamвЂ™s biography must have been known to Shams-i TabrД«zД«вЂ™s biographers.

This however, is not the occupation listed by Hajji Bektash Wali in the вЂќMaqДЃlatвЂќ and was rather the epithet given to the Ismaili Imam Shams al-din Muhammad, who worked as an embroider while living in anonymity in Tabriz. Despite his occupation as a weaver, Shams received the epithet of 'the embroidererвЂќ (zarduz) in various biographical accounts including that of the Persian historian Dawlatshah. Before meeting Rumi, he apparently traveled from place to place weaving baskets and selling girdles for a living. Shams received his education in Tabriz and was a disciple of Baba Kamal al-Din Jumdi. However, various scholars have questioned AflakiвЂ™s reliability.

Apparently basing his calculations on Hajji Bektash Wali's MaqДЃlДЃt (Conversations), Aflaki suggests that Shams arrived in Konya at the age of sixty years. In a work entitled ManДЃqib al-вЂarifД«n (Eulogies of the Gnostics), Aflaki names a certain вЂAli as the father of Shams-i TabrД«zД« and his grandfather as Malikdad. ContentsДЄccording to Sipah Salar, a devotee and intimate friend of Rumi who spent forty years with him, Shams was the son of the Imam Ala al-Din. The tomb of Shams-i TabrД«zД« has recently nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Tradition holds that Shams taught Rumi in seclusion in Konya for a period of forty days, before fleeing for Damascus. Shams-i-TabrД«zД« or Shams al-Din Mohammad (died ca.1248) was a Persian Muslim, who is credited as the spiritual instructor of MawlДЃnДЃ JalДЃl ad-DД«n Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi and is referenced with great reverence in RumiвЂ™s poetic collection, in particular 'Diwan-i Shams-i TabrД«zД«вЂќ (The Works of Shams of Tabriz).

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