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
You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.
This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.
Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.
If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.
The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.
I can heal a broken heart with a smile.
Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.
Because of your love I have broken with my past
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.