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.
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.
A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing.
Dance until you shatter yourself.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.