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
Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.
There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.
At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.
Every soul becomes gold when touched by the Beloved.
One day your heart will take you to your Lover. One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved. Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.
We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.
There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.
Go my friend bestow your love even on your enemies if you touch their hearts what do you think will happen.
Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less.
You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.