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 undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world.
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun
I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.
Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces.
Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset
Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.
You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.
Fasting is the first principle of medicine.
A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.
You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.
How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!
Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.