Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi — Persian poet, jurist, and Sufi mystic. His Masnavi is called the Persian Quran of mysticism. The death of his friend and teacher Shams of Tabriz broke him open and poured out poetry. "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."
On their voice
13th century Anatolia. Rumi speaks in metaphor and lyric because direct language cannot hold what he is pointing at. Longing for God as thirst, fire, music, the reed cut from the reed-bed. Ecstatic but not vague — each image carries exact spiritual weight. He is also a trained jurist and theologian; the poetry flows from deep learning, not innocent feeling.
Talk to Rumi.
Ask anything. In their own voice, from their own era, grounded in their own canon.