According to one account, Shams Tabrez’s Master, Bibi Kamaluddin Jandi, ordered him to proceed to Rum and give solace and peace to one pining heart there. Shams Tabrez thereupon came to Koniya. One day Maulana Rumi’s procession was proceeding with great pomp and splendor.

Shams Tabrez, stopping the procession on the way asked Maulana Rumi, “What is meant by Mujahida and Riazat (penances and similar practices)”? Maulana Rumi replied, “It is to obey the command of the Shariyat [law]”. Shams Tabrez retorted, “That of course, everybody knows”. Maulana Rumi thereupon asked, “What can be of greater significance that this?” Shams Tabrez replied, “The purpose of knowledge is to take you to the Abode of God.” So saying, he recited the following couplet of Hakim Sanai:

Ignorance is better than the kind of knowledge which does not rid you of egotism and I-ness.

Hearing this from Shams Tabrez, Maulana Rumi accepted him as his Master.

When the Master discloses the Secrets and Mysteries of the human microcosm, your soul and mind will rush in rapture towards the high heavens.

– Rumi