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
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.
A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.
But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.
Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!
I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.
O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.
Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.
Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
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?
I see my beauty in you.