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
Don't seek the water; get thirst.
In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.
Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that
Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
Raise your words, not your voice.
A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.
Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.