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
Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.
You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world.
What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not.
The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!...
The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw blown off into emptiness.
This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.
The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.
Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.
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.
With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?