Come whoever you are for this is not the door of despair this is the universal message of mawlana meaning our beloved lord jellaleddin al rumi the great philanthropist islamic philosopher mystic and the founder of the whirling dervishes order who lived in konya the anatolian capital of the great seluk empire during the 13th century his poems teaching love among mankind and good manners his poems have been widely translated into many of the worlds languages and transposed into