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
I don’t know why; when I look at you, I see myself
From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.
Don't you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.
Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.
He who tastes not, knows not.
Only the soul knows what love is.
In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.
Whatever you know, or don’t - only Love is real.
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.
This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.
What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.