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
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
No One in the Entire World is as Precious as You are.
All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
We are born of love. Love is our mother.
Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.