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
I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.
There is a place where words are born of silence.
If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.
Joy lives concealed in grief.
Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.
If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.
If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.
We are all bathed in the same light.
This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.
Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.
The Lover is ever drunk with Love. He is mad. She is free. He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy. Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything. But once we get drunk on that Love Whatever will be, will be.