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
Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
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.
When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.
No One in the Entire World is as Precious as You are.
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.
There’s nothing left of me. I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise. Is it still a stone, or a world made of redness? It has no resistance to sunlight.
To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.
Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.
Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe
Inside a Lover's Heart,there's another world,and yet another.
Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.