[2][3] Earlier documents reveal that Rumi arrived in Bengal in 1053 CE (445 Hijri) with his teacher Syed Shah Surkhul Antia and ten disciples.

This was a century before the arrival of Muslim general Bakhtiyar Khalji and 250 years before Shah Jalal's Conquest of Sylhet in 1303 CE.

[4][5] Rumi and his comrades settled in modern-day Netrokona, an area with no Muslim population and ruled by a Koch king called Ganesh.

[10] During the colonial period of Bengal, the British East India Company tried to takeover the shrine estate in 1829.

In response, the government abandoned the plan and granted the estate to the document holder; Syed Jalaluddin.