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 I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being.
Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.
Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?
When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.
He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself
Lamps are different, but light is the same.
There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself.
They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.
Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him
Come to the Root of the Root of your Self
Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?
This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.