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
From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.
Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.
Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.
Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.
Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.
Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That.
Whatever you know, or don’t - only Love is real.
LOVE is what gives joy to giving joy.
Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.
When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.
Walk patiently through this troubled world, and you will find great treasure. Even though your house may be small, look within it!
You cannot learn about Love, LOVE appears on the wings of grace.
There comes a holy and transparent time when every touch of beauty opens the heart to tears. This is the time the Beloved of heaven is brought tenderly on earth. This is the time of the opening of the ROSE.
Let the Beloved be a hat pulled down firmly on my head.