Though you pretend to be a great fan of Mawlana Rumi and claims to know his biography and understand his poetry but use words like “crap” in your discussion.
Oh and I’m sure you haven’t read the references you gave but I have, and this one is enough to dump your theory of Rumi a man of no religion. Enjoy
Rumi and orthodox Islam
The idea that Rumi cared little for orthodox Islam has been put forward in translations of poems sometimes attributed to him but which are not the work of Rumi. Some writers have even claimed or suggested that Rumi was not really a Muslim, because they believe that the line
na tarsā na yahūdam man na gabram na musalmānam
نه ترسا، نه یهودم من، نه گبرم نه مسلمانم
(not a Christian, nor a Jew I am, not a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.)
expresses Rumi’s true attitude toward Islam. However, the poem in which that line occurs is not in the earliest manuscripts, and is probably is not a genuine Rumi poem.citation needed] R.A. Nicholson first published a translation of this line in 1898, but he admitted that, “[t]he original text does not occur in any of the editions or MSS used by me” (p. 281). Futhermore, this should not be interpreted literally, since this is just another form of a central theme in all Rumi’s poetry: the enlightened being who has transcended religions into the complete man.
Rumi’s actual approach to Islam is clarified by his quatrain:
Man banda-ye qur’ānam, agar jān dāram
man khāk-e rah-e muhammad-e mukhtāram
gar naql konad joz īn kas az goftāram
bēzāram azō waz-īn sokhan bēzāram.
,
I am the servant of the Qur’an as long as I have life.
I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.
If anyone quotes anything except this from my sayings,
I am quit of him and outraged by these words.[45]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalal_ad-Din_Muhammad_Rumi#cite_note-44)
Seyyed Hossein Nasr states:
One of the greatest living authorities on Rûmî in Persia today, Hâdî Hâ’irî, has shown in an unpublished work that some 6,000 verses of the Dîwân and the Mathnawî are practically direct translations of Qur’ânic verses into Persian poetry.[46]](Rumi - Wikipedia)
Rumi states in his Dīwān:
The Sufi is hanging on to Muhammad, like Abu Bakr.[47]](Rumi - Wikipedia)
Make your intellect a sacrifice in the presence of Muhammad, and say, "God is sufficient for me, since God is enough for satisfying me.[48]](Rumi - Wikipedia)