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
I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
The middle path is the way to wisdom
The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.
In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.
The soul is here for its own joy.
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.
Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.
Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?
Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.