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
In your light I learn how to love.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
Dance when you're perfectly free.
You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you,
The moon has become a dancer at this festival of LOVE.
Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.
Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.
Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still
In your light I learn how to love.In your beauty, how to make poems.You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.