Pakistani PM visits Mevlana Museum in central Turkey

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Starting a landmark two-day visit to Turkey, Pakistan’s prime minister on Thursday visited a museum in central Anatolia dedicated to Mevlana Rumi, the famed 13th-century Muslim poet.

Imran Khan's first official visit to Turkey since taking office last August comes at the invitation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Speaking to reporters after his visit to the Mevlana Museum in Konya, Khan said he was a follower of Sufism, the spiritual branch of Islam that Rumi also practiced.

“You know how much Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistan’s ideological father, loves his ideological father Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi,” said Khan, adding that he also read Rumi’s books.

“Rumi is the greatest representative of Sufism,” he said.




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Prime Minister Imran Khan and his delegation visited the mausoleum of great Sufi saint of the Muslim world Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi and paid homage to him.


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[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Mevlana's influence in the Turkish History, Politics, Sociology etc. is immense beyond words...

Here's an anecdote...

Osman Gazi, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, was then a young man in his late teens. His father ran a small Beylik (fiefdom). One day he was sent to Konya, the capital of the Selchuk Empire, for a piece of official work at the Imperial Court. There, while he was waiting outside the Court, Mevlana spotted him and asked him to meet him at his Dergah. When Osman went to the Dergah Mevlana asked him to sit opposite to him and recite Sura El Fatiha 18 times. And, Mevlana himself recited it also 18 times. Then he looked up to Osman and said, "From your family 36 Adil Jihan rulers will come, and they will render great services for the Muslim world."

 

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Mevlana's influence in the Turkish History, Politics, Sociology etc. is immense beyond words...

Here's an anecdote...

Osman Gazi, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, was then a young man in his late teens. His father ran a small Beylik (fiefdom). One day he was sent to Konya, the capital of the Selchuk Empire, for a piece of official work at the Imperial Court. There, while he was waiting outside the Court, Mevlana spotted him and asked him to meet him at his Dergah. When Osman went to the Dergah Mevlana asked him to sit opposite to him and recite Sura El Fatiha 18 times. And, Mevlana himself recited it also 18 times. Then he looked up to Osman and said, "From your family 36 Adil Jihan rulers will come, and they will render great services for the Muslim world."

he was an inspiration for our National poet aka Allama Iqbal .