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
Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.
Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.
Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know.
Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.
There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.
I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; / But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world.
Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.
Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.
Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.
Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.
I was once like you, enlightened and "rational", I too scoffed at lovers, Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery. No one is safe! Watch out.
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!
Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?
I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence