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Mawlana Rumi (right) meets Shams-i Tabrizi (left) for the first time.

‘Wish you were here’ in Persian is ‘jāt khālīst’ or ‘your place is empty.’

Tag someone whose place is empty :)

“Glance at me, for I suffer in your absence.”

-Fakhr al-Dīn ʿIrāqī

Mawlānā Rūmī’s first encounter with Shams al-Dīn-i Tabrīzī.

Though he did not know it at the time, Rūmī’s meeting with the wandering mystic (qalandar) Shams al-Dīn would change his life and Islamic mysticism forever.

Mawlānā later wrote about it: (1/5)