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
Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit.
Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake Laughter always follow tears Blessed are those who understand Life blossoms wherever water flows Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown
Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?
Because of your love I have broken with my past
Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.
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
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.