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
What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another
No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.
Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?
Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.
You think the shadow is the substance.
To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.
Never lose hope when the beloved sends you away. If you're abandoned if you're left hopeless tomorrow for sure you'll be called again. If the door is shut right in your face keep waiting with patience don't leave right away. Seeing your patience your love will soon summon you with grace raise you like a champion.
You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.
O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.
The radiant one in me has never said a word...
The quieter we become, the more we can hear.
Empathy is even better than talking in one language