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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings
Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.
We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.
In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved, And our seeking is His seeking And our words are His words... We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him. Sitting by His side, we ask: 'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'
The soul is here for its own joy.
Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.
Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.