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
Criticism polishes my mirror.
To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven.
Let yourself become living poetry.
There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
Don't you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.
Patience is the key to joy.
Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
What you have despised in yourself as a thorn opens into a rose.
Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.
Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.
Everything is soul and flowering.
Whoever gives reverence receives reverence