Discourses of Rumi: Fihi Ma Fihi by Maulana Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Fihi Ma Fihi

The author of “Fihi Ma Fihi” is Maulana Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, also known as Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi or Mevlana/Mawlawi, and more popularly simply as Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan. One of the greatest works of Rumi is Masnavi or Masnavi-ye-Ma’navi, also written Mathnawi or Mathnavi. The Masnavi is one of the most influential works of Sufism, commonly called “the Quran in Persian”.