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
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.
The middle path is the way to wisdom
It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.” “In prayer all are equal.
There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.
Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.