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
A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence.
Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart
Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.
Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious
Look for the answer inside your question.
The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.
You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.
They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.
Silence gives answers.
You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.
We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.