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
The middle path is the way to wisdom
It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.
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.
In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.
Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.
Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
On this path let the heart be your guide.
There's a path from your HEART to mine.
Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.