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Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana and Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir
After Jelāl’s death, his widow, Kirā Khātūn, suggested to her stepson, Sultan Veled Bahā’u-’d-Dīn, that he ought to have succeeded his father as Rector of the fraternity, and not Husām.
Sultan Veled answered that it had been his father’s bequest that Husām should succeed, that he himself had sworn the oath of fealty to Husām, and that Husām was now become a kind of spiritual beehive, through the incessant and multitudinous visitations of angelic ministers sent to him with messages from on high.