Rumi: What you seek is seeking you " ما تبحث عنه يبحث عنك" What you seek is seeking you O brother, you are a mere thought and what is left of you is some skin and bones  Rumi is a shining example of a religious Sufi poet whose religion was love. This is how the Sufi poet and scholar Jalal El-Din El-Rumi perceived the world. Born Mohamed ben Mohamed Ben Hussien Bahaa El-Din Al-Balkhi in 1207 AD or 604 AH, but known as Jalal El-Din El-Rumi, the poet is the founder of the Sufi Mawlawia sect. He died in 1273 AD. El-Rumi, who was born in Balkh in Afghanistan, moved with is father to Baghdad at the age of four. He and his father moved through many countries during his childhood until settling down in the town of Konya in Turkey in 623 AH during the reign of Saljouk. The famous book The 40 Rules of Love by the Turkish writer Elif Shafk is inspired by Rumi's original manuscript of the same title.