The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.

Baha' ud-Din became the head of a madrassa (religious school) and when he died Rumi aged twenty-five inherited his position as the Islamic molvi. This meeting had a deep impact on the eighteen-year-old Rumi and later on became the inspiration for his works. The most complete genealogy offered for the family stretches back to six or seven generations to famous Hanafi Jurists.

g. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. Pashto Ottoman Turkish Chagatai and Sindhi.