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
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?'
Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light
Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow.
What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.
In truth, everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved.
There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.
A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.
You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.
Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless.
Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
Like a shadow, I am and I am not.
A shadow cannot ignorethe sun that all day creates and movesit.