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
I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.
Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.
You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity.
There's courage involved if you want to become Truth.
Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.
Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.
My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.
Love is language that cannot be said, or heard.
Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.
Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love.
I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.
If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.
Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way.