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all those who possessed his book. Sultan Usuf bin Tahifi of North Africa also issued suchan order. They could not reach Gazali who was away from Spain.
Jalaludin Rumi
A mistic Sufi who was a great poet, though initially he was like all traditionalists, against poetry. He was born in 1207 A.D. at Bulkh. When some one asked Rumi to give his indentification, he said he belonged to neither Bulkh nor Khorasan nor to any other place in the East or the West. He was neither a Zorostrian nor a Muslim in the sense in which the term was used. He claimed Heaven as his place of origin where he aspired to go. He moved with his father from Bulkh and went to Bagdad, Hizaz and Zinzan via Syria. His thoughts took a mystical turn when he came in contact with a mystic called Shamsh of Tabraiz in 1247 A.D. His mystisism led him to the deep knowledge of the soul and belief in its transmigration. He says in his "Diwam Shamsh Trabriaiz" at P. 212.
"First I had my birth in the mineral kingdom; Thence I passed into plant life. Later I was born a
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