Rumi
Rumi
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mawlānā/Mevlânâ, Mevlevî/Mawlawī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 September 1207
Listen to the sound of waves within you.
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!
The soul lives there in the silent breath.
Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise.
The lover never despairs. For a committed heart everything is possible.
Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?
Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light.
Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.
Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.
Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul . . .
Looking at my life I see that only Love Has been my soul’s companion From deep inside My soul cries out: Do not wait, surrender For the sake of Love.
The Real Beloved is that one who is Unique, who is your Beginning and your End.
Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.