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
Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.
people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain
The cure for pain is in the pain.
if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings
Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.
I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.