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
This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.
Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.
When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.
Shine like the whole universe is yours.
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.
Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
The middle path is the way to wisdom
It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.” “In prayer all are equal.
There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.