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Rumi said, “I am neither from the east or the west, no boundaries exist
in my breast.”
Rumi accepted everyone into his circle. He was a Muslim, a sufi sage, a man who did not miss his prayers, one who knew that love could bind all people to God. His teaching came from the Koran, the Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), through his father Bahauddin Veled, a religious scholar of his time, and through an oral teaching transmitted by sufi masters such as Shamsi Tabriz.
There are five pillars in Islam.
The repetition of La illaha illa’Lah, There is no reality other than
Allah.
All other pillars support, enhance or connect to this one.
Salat. The five daily prayers.
Prayer is a connector. The joining of the manifest world with the unmanifest
world.
Zakat. The giving of charity.
Everything you think you have is temporary. So give, for it is not yours.
Fasting. No intercourse or intake of food or drink during daylight hours
during the month of Ramadan.
To be able to let go. To be in a state of not grasping.
Hajj. The pilgrimage to Makkah.
To be made at least once in one’s life if affordable and allowable by
health.
To pursue the Truth. This is not mandatory. One must come to this understanding.
Suggested Reading
The Holy Koran
tr. Yusuf Ali
The Glorious Koran
tr. Marmaduke Pickthall
Muhammad
by Martin Lings
Forty Hadith Qudsi
tr. Ezzeddin Ibrahim and Denys Johnson-Davies
Public Duties in Islam
by Ibn Taymiya
tr. Muhtar Holland
Irshad
by Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak Al-Jerrahi
Sahih Al-Bukhari
tr. Dr.
Muhammad Musin Khan