Shams al-Din disappears for ever

One night in 645/1247 Shams al-Din of Tabriz disappeared at Konya for ever. ¹

Twentieth-century research established that Shams was indeed murdered — not without the knowledge of Rumi's sons, who hurriedly buried him close to a well still extant in Konya. This experience of love, longing and loss turned Jalal al-Din into a poet: he composed ghazals and quatrains and signed most of his lyric poems with Shams's name instead of his own, so the collection became known as the Divan-e Shams. ¹