His collections of “Masnavi Manavi” and “Divan of Shams-e Tabrizi” are not only popular with or limited to Iranians and Persian-speakers. Their English translations have also reached global fame.
Iran’s top diplomat, Javad Zarif, has tweeted an English translation of a Molana’s poem commemorating his 811th birthday:
"I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea; ...
For I belong to the soul of the Beloved.
I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call."