This photograph taken on June 19, 2016, shows the ruins of the house of Sufi mystic and poet Rumi in the Khowaja Gholak district of northern Balkh province of Afghanistan.
Celebrated Sufi mystic and poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, popularly known as Rumi, was a man of many parts--poet, jurist,Islamic scholar, theologian and Sufi mystic.
Immensely popular the world over, the 13th-century poet’s name has been mired in two different controversies of late.