Disagreement between Shams & Rūmi in Opinions, Ideas and Judgments

In spite of their eminent and expected conformity in attitudes and their obvious influence on each other, Shams Tabrizi and Jalal al-Din Rūmi are found to have some differences of opinions on several issues. These disagreements appear to be either overt or covert. Yet, the covert disagreements are assumed to be discoverable. Employing comparative method, the current study sought to extract some of the aforementioned disagreements from the authors’ works and words. Then, the main instances are examined to get more recognition of these outstanding characters of mystical romance area. In an attempt to be more systematic, the article presents three classifications which cooperates the reader to get more knowledge on poets’ disagreements on various aspects. The obtained results indicate that Shams and Rūmi are somehow different when considering their (1) thoughts (three cases), (2) exegeses of verses of Quran and narratives (five cases), and (3) judgements about prophets and mystics (three prophets and seven mystics). Hence, the scholars of this field are proposed to consider these instances and other similar examples when investigating Shams andRūmi’s lives and thoughts.