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 hurt you embrace becomes joy.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?
Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!
Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.
Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.
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.