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
Because the Beloved wants to know, unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation.
Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water!
Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes, in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self, or things that have happened to you. There's no need to go outside.
There is an original inside me.
Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.
For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.
Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.
Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In God's Eyes.
Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds.
The world is a playground, and death is the night.
My soul Is Naked. It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love.
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.