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
Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe
Inside a Lover's Heart,there's another world,and yet another.
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!
We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty.
To find the Beloved, you must become the Beloved.
From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.
I am so close, I may look distant.
For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.
Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.
With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.
They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone.
If destiny comes to help you, Love will come to meet you. A life without love isn't a life