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 am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.
Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren’t you?
This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.
We are all the same ... all the same... longing to find our way back ... back to the One ... back to the Only One!
There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.
The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!
I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.
I’ve been looking for a long, long time, for this thing called love, I’ve ridden comets across the sky, and I’ve looked below and above. Then one day I looked inside myself, and this is what I found, A golden sun residing there, beaming forth God’s light and sound.
Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.
I made an oath to myself: as long as I live as long as my soul remains in this body I won't deviate from the right way but later I looked to my left and then to my right and I saw our beloved everywhere how could I make a wrong turn?
Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.
Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions.
As long as an angel is not annihilated, it is a devil.