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 so close, I may look distant.
I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.
New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.
You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?
It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you
Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.
God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.
Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness.
Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream.
Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.