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
Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.
My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.
Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.
Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.
My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.
Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.
Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.
God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.
No more words. Hear only the voice within.
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.