In this episode of The Write Creed, Eisha tells Waleed that her friends in Herat and Kabul in Afghanistan are in a precarious situation and have, of late, been putting up quotes by Rumi. She asks Waleed why Rumi, who was originally from Balkh in now Afghanistan, is the most popular Sufi poet. They travel through central Asia, Iran, Turkey and the Indian subcontinent through the histories of kings and stories of Sufi poets and their songs in Farsi and Punjabi and talk about different kinds of devotion. #rumi #shamstabrizi #shams #waleedhussain #sufi #sufipoetry #eishasarkar #williamdalrymple #books #iran #persia #afghanistan #multan #balkh #turkey #anatolia #pakistan #delhi #mehrauli #indiansubcontinent #india #punjabi #bulleshah #amirkhusrau #bakhtiarkaki #nizamuddinauliya #salimchishti #merapiyagharaaya #madhuridixit #nusratfatehalikhan #devotion #love #sufipoets #aurangzeb #jahanara #shahjahan #mughals #alauddinkhilji #mongols #sufimusic #ruhaniyat #mumbai #herat #kabul #turks #afghans #persians #punjabis (On popular demand, to make distribution across all platforms available, I have removed the song Mera Piya Ghar Aaya by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan for this version of the episode).