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
Let yourself become living poetry.
Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.
To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.
People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.
My religion is, to live through Love.
My religion is, to live through Love.
Love cannot be described. It must be tasted.
Only love itself can explain love and lovers.
Only love itself can explain love and lovers.
No prayer is complete without presence.
The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.
Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.