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TIL, That Rumi, the famous love and mysticism poet, was actually a Muslim scholar, and it was only after meeting. befriending and sudden disappearance of a man named Shams, that caused such sorrow for him that he wrote more than 3000 sonnets and 40000 verses tributing to him.

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