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
What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.
Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.
My soul Is Naked. It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.
Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.
What you seek is seeking you.
Only the soul knows what love is.
Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
Apparently two, but one in soul, you and I...
If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.
A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence.
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?