User talk:Farhadus

Fritz Meier, Anna Merie Schimmel, Frank Lewis and all other so called authorities on Rumi do not even speak Rumi's language: Dari or classic Farsi. So how could they conduct research in Wakhsh or Balkh in Afghanistan to identify Rumi's birthplace? Rumi himself refers to Balkh in his Mathnawi as his birthplace. In the introduction to Shams e Tabrisi, he himself explains where he comes from and how he traveled to Koyna over Naishapur. That is enough to accept that he was from Balkh. No where in Mathnawi or other sources, Waksh is even mentioned. Where is the evidence.

As a student I have met Anna Merie Schimmel at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany (1987). She does not speak one word Persian, Tajiki or Dari. She speaks Turkish. Waksh is in central Asia and ruled by Turks for many centuries. Fritz Meier at that time was in Basel and received a Dr.Hon. from Freiburg. He did not speak Farsi. Dr Frank Lewis is currently at the University of Chicago. I have corresponded with him and he does not speak the language nor has he conducted research on Rumi's origin.

Furthermore, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, in his book "Islamic Art and Spirituality", explain the genealogy(Suny Press, 1987. p. 115): "Jalal al-Din was born in a major center of Persian culture, Balkh, from Persian speaking parents, and is the product of that Islamic Persian culture which in the 7th/13th century dominated the 'whole of the eastern lands of Islam and to which present day Persians as well as Turks, Afghans, Central Asian Muslims and the Muslims of the Indo-Pakistani and the Muslims of the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent are heir. It is precisely in this world that the sun of his spiritual legacy has shone most brilliantly during the past seven centuries. The father of Jalal al-Din, Muhammad ibn Husayn Khatibi, known as Baha al-Din Walad and entitled Sultan al-'ulama', was an outstanding Sufi in Balkh connected to the spiritual lineage of Najm al-Din Kubra." I have studied at the George Washington University under Nasr and have a degree.

Thus, Rumi, the beloved poet of Afghans, is from Balkh. It is astonishing that a few Westerners assume an authority and create "facts". And why Wikipedia is so stubborn to objectively look at the fact before deciding to "assign" nationality to Rumi on its website?

باز آمدی ای جان من جانها فدای جان تو جان من و صد همچو من قربان تو ، قربان تو من کز سر آزادگی از چرخ سر پیچیده ام دارم کنون در بندگی سر بر خط فرمان تو آشفته همچون موی تو کار من و سامان من مست است همچون بخت من عهد تو و پیمان تو مگذار از پا افتم ای دوست دستم را بگی روی من و درگاه تو، دست من و دامان تو گفتی که جانان که ام؟ جانان من، جانان من امشب اگر مرغ سحر خواند سرود، میخوانمش چون بارها بر بست لب او در شب هجران تو با بوسه یی از آن دو لب اکرام را اتمام کن هر چند باشد پارسا شرمندۀ احسان تو