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
If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self.
If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.
Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?
Dance when you're perfectly free.
Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?
Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.
O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.
Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.
The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?
I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!
You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art.
I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born.
I have found the heart and will never leave This house of light.
Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility.