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
When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.
Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.
Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.
Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
Like a shadow, I am and I am not.
I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!
Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.
Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.