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
But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.
Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.
Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.
My religion is to be alive from LOVE.
Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.
A Breath of love can take you all the way to infinity
Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.
Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.
Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another . . . It's all praise, and it's all right.
Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you.
When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.
The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.
Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.
When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind