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
When we talk about GOD, we’re like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea.
Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there.
When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon.
Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.
How can you ever hope to know the Beloved Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
You show your worth by what you seek.
How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.
Turning toward what you deeply love saves you
Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.
The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw blown off into emptiness.
The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence.
The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home somewhere that is not a where.
The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see.
The Heart that is not in love will fail the test.