Concept of Love in the Selected Poems of Maulana Rumi

The present study attempts to highlight the concept of love in the selected poems of Maulana Rumi. Rumi wrote a number of poems in which he expressed his longing for the Devine (God). He was one of the 13th century’s major Sufi poets. He is loved by people all over the world. According to Rumi love is only thing by which people are united with God. He accepts each and every love because the union of each love leads to God. He describes all things from his heart. He declares that everything in creation derives from God. God is the ultimate reality; he is permeated and spread through all the objects. He encourages the reader to look into his or her own heart. Rumi’s poetry emerges from a deeply felt experience of God’s love and God’s presence in his life.