شمس ، روشنگر روزگاران مولوي

Shams, a mirror reflecting the times of Mowlavi

Mowlavi, the most prominent figure in the Persian mystic literature, turned to poetry after he met Shams Tabrizi. This meeting, which totally changed his life, resulted in the most profound and beautiful mystic literature of all times. Thus to know Mowlavi we must first know Shams. Shams lived in a time of turbulence, a time of human values crisis, a time when man, weary of all the injustices surrounding him, had alienated him from his human nature. Looking for true man in his agitation, Shams turns to the religion of compassion. In Mowlavi he finds the man he has been seeking as Mowlavi finds himself in total mental conformity with him. Thus they turn to an ideal love which has been the support of mystics ever since, a love which helps man realize his potentials and turn into a perfect man.