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
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.
Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.