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
Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.
Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.
Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.
Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is really a fortunate sovereign. Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love. Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.
Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty.
Only the soul knows what love is.
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.
You had better run from me. My words are fire.
There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.
Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.
Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still.