One of the Turners has kindly provided the following quotations from Mevlana's works which affirm his ecumenism:
We are celebrating, don't come to us without a daf.
Get up and play the drum, for we are victorious.
We are drunk, but not drunk on grape's wine;
Anything you can think of, we are far, far from that.
1322 UT
I am: Sometimes hidden and sometimes revealed,
Sometimes a devoted Muslim, sometimes a Hebrew and a Christian.
For me to fit inside everyone's heart,
I put on a new face everyday.
Roba'i 1325 AK