Hello and Aslam O Alikum fellow Pak Wheelers!
This time I will try to take you for a spiritual tour of Maulana Jalal Ud Din Rumi home Konya. Konya is an Anatolian town in central Turkey where Maulana or Melevi is buried. It has a strong significance for muslims specially to the muslims believing in Saints and Sufis; these are very common in Pakistan. A lot of Muslims pilgrims and non muslims tourists visit his tomb daily. It is unique to see the cultural divide in Turkey. The secular one in Istanbul and the relegious Sufi ones in Konya which we are familiar with in Pakistan.
More info about Maulana can be found for example from Wikipedia.
I was extremely lucky to have the chance to visit Konya. I was there on the last weekend. I took a flight from Istanbul and stayed there for a day before returning yesterday night.
"Come, come again, whoever you are, come!
Heathen, fire worshipper or idolatrous, come!
Come even if you broke your penitence a hundred times,
Ours is the portal of hope, come as you are." Rumi
