Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi was a great Sufi philosopher
and he was enlightened
and he was granted esoteric meaning of the Quran by his Sufi Master.
So his understanding of the Quran is based on true source.
And then he studied the Quran thoroughly.
And then from real-life stories, he made parables, he made stories
and then with the help of stories, he tried to explain the Quran in his own way, in his own language.
And this is how he ended up writing a set of his poetical work which is known as Masnavi Molvi Manvi.
Now, the way Rumi’s poetry has been translated in the west,
it doesn’t promote spirituality, the way it has been put forward in transliteration.
However, Rumi’s message is nothing but spirituality and Sufism.
Like people only take a very superficial meaning of the Quran and Bible
and they do not go into the depth of the esoteric meaning of the Quran and the Bible.
In a similar way, people all around the world, they only get to the skin of the words
They only get to the superficial meaning of what they are reading from the books of Rumi when he talks about love,
when he talks about the relationship between him and God,
when he talks about his relationship with Murshid (Spiritual Guide),
people do not go into the depth of the meaning, the esoteric meaning of his poetry.
So they understand what they assume.
Because when you read a book, you already have some opinion in your mind, you already have some creed
and you only see everything in the light of what you already know, in the light of what you already believe in.
So in order to have the true meaning of anything that you read, you have to be empty-headed.
So Rumi’s love is no different to the explanation of love presented by any other saint of God
because, in reality, all the saints of God talk about God’s love and they offer their services to teach others how to love God.
They may have different ways of going about obtaining divine love
but the spirit of love is the same in every explanation of love presented by any of the saints of God.
So he has a good command on words and he is very expressive,
he expresses himself in a poetical way.
It appears to be very beautiful.