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
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.
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.