Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
1207-1273 · Sufism · Renowned
Rumi was a Persian Sufi, a respectable legal scholar in Konya until he met a wandering dervish called Shams, and the friendship burned his old life down. He came out of it an ecstatic poet of divine love and of fana, the annihilation of the ego in God. His Masnavi ranks among the greatest works of mystical poetry and is called the Qur'an in Persian. His followers became the whirling Mevlevi order.
Signature
The position Rumi is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Meaning
- leans Inherent
- Highest Good
- Love
Positions on the 6 axes the sources answer
- Natural Processes
- leans Purposeful (75 on a 0–100 scale from Mechanistic to Purposeful)
- The Divine
- leans Indescribable (79 on a 0–100 scale from Describable to Indescribable)
- Identity
- leans Changing (85 on a 0–100 scale from Unchanging to Changing)
- Meaning
- leans Inherent (85 on a 0–100 scale from Constructed to Inherent)
- Nature of Reality
- strongly leans Unity (10 on a 0–100 scale from Unity to Multiplicity)
- Ground of Being
- strongly leans Transcendence (90 on a 0–100 scale from Immanence to Transcendence)
14 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Rumi refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Theology
- Panentheism
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods? - Highest Good
- Love
What is the highest good? - Good and Evil
- Good Real, Evil Privative
What is the fundamental nature of good and evil? - Perception
- Eidetic Intuition
What do we directly perceive? - Knowledge
- Intuition
What is the ultimate foundation of knowledge? - Ethics Basis
- Divine Command
What is the ultimate basis of ethics? - Agency
- Divine Providence
What is the nature of human agency and freedom? - Beginning of Things
- Creation ex Nihilo
What is the origin of reality? - Time
- Kairotic
What is the fundamental shape of time? - Authority
- Charismatic Authority
What is the legitimate source of authority? - Language
- Metaphorical
What is the fundamental nature of language? - Paradox
- Apophatic Pointer
What is the status of paradox? - Law
- Divine Law
What is the ultimate source of legitimate law? - Death
- Union with the One
What happens at death? - Role of Emotion
- Path to the Divine
What is the proper role of emotion? - Human Nature
- Redeemably Corrupted / Imago Dei
What is human nature? - Primary Bond
- The Divine
What is your primary bond and loyalty?