The English professor Shaykh Dr. Abdal Hakim Murad (T.J. Winter) raises an excellent point here: Rumi was not the New Age universalist that the modern West tries to make him out to be. He was a Hanafi jurist, a Maturidi theologian, and a Sufi master who had mastered the Islamic sciences — yet he delved deep into the core of the Quran and Sunnah, where Divine Love is central. #rumi #sufism #tasawwuf