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
The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.
Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace
I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world.
The gates made of light swing open. You see in.
Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.
You transform all those who are touched by You.
Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it.
On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison.
Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home. While you look for trinkets The treasure house awaits you in your own being.
Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?
I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.