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
Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
Try something different. Surrender.
Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.
Everything that you want, you are already that.
Remember God so much that you are forgotten.
Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.
The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.
Woman is the light of God.
I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.
What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?
Now is the time to unite the Soul and the world.
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.